jueves, 27 de marzo de 2008

Crónica desde: el juke box de JB. Maria Mena: Just Hold Me

En uno de mis viajes a Alemania descubrí a esta señorita, a la gran Maria Mena, una cantante noruega que tenía esta canción entre el top 20 de las listas alemanas. Me encantó esta canción desde que la escuché por primera vez. Además de una voz muy dulce, muy personal y con la que nos muestra la fragilidad de su ser, tiene una manera muy sentida y particular de interpretar sus canciones. Esta es su canción más famosa, pero en su último disco "Apparently Unaffected" está lleno de joyas. Lo escucho a menudo. Y en este viaje me he agenciado su anterior disco "White turns blue" y es otra maravilla. Lástima que tengamos que acudir a la red para poder hacernos con él porque aquí no sale ni de coña. Pero merece la pena. Seguimos descubriendo.

"Just Hold me"

Comfortable as I am
I need your reassurance
And comfortable as you are
You count the days

But if I wanted silence
I would whisper
And if I wanted loneliness
I'd choose to go
And if I like rejection
I'd audition
And if I didn't love you
You would know

And why can't you just hold me
And how come it is so hard
And do you like to see me broken
And why do I still care
still care

You say you see the light now
At the end of this narrow hall

I wish it didn't matter
I wish I didn't give you all

But if I wanted silence
I would whisper
And if I wanted loneliness
I'd choose to go
And if I like rejection
I'd audition
And if I didn't love you
You would know

And why can't you just hold me
And how come it is so hard
And do you like to see me broken
And why do I still care

Poor little misunderstood baby
No-one likes a sad face
But I can't remember
life without him
I think I did have good days
I think I did have good days

And why can't you just hold me
And how come it is so hard
And do you like to see me broken
And why do I still care