Don't give up!

Hace dias que me rondaba la idea de dedicarle un post con una canción a Ana, mi esposa. Asi que estuve pensando y pensando para tratar de encontrar la edecuada.

Cuado ya tenía todo, canción, letra, video de Youtube, etc, una voz interior me dijo que no estaba de acuerdo. No, ¡No era eso!. Se trataba de la canción My one and only love, interpretada por Ella Fitzgerald. Bonita canción, pero no adecuada ahora.

Forzando a mi memoria, que es como un disco duro antiguo, ya lleno y renqueante, pero repleta de imágenes, sonidos, ideas, recuerdos, todo deslavazado, pero con paciencia se va ordenando, lentamente, y la dejé trabajar. Al final, apareció una de las mejores canciones que haya oido nunca Don't give up!. La magnífica canción de Peter Gabriel.

Compré este disco hace muchos años creo que en el año 1988, un poco antes de volver de Tenerife, aunque el disco salió en 1986, y lo he oido muchisimas veces, sobre todo, Don't give Up!. Llegué a aprenderme la letra en inglés, pero ya se me ha olvidado.

La versión que he elegido, de Youtube, es una versión en directo, posterior al disco, en la que la Peter Gabriel canta con una voz más quebrada, transmitiendo un gran sufrimiento, y acompañado en este caso por Paula Cole, que no desmerece comparada con la voz de Kate Bush, del disco original.

Escuchad la canción y acompañad a Paula en el estribillo, para que le llegue a Ana, cuando canta:

don't give up
'cos you have friends
don't give up
you're not beaten yet
don't give up
I know you can make it good.......

Es realmente emocionante.

Ahora os dejó la letra completa, para que disfruteis plenamente de tan bella canción.

Don't give up!

In this proud land we grew up strong
we were wanted all along
I was taught to fight, taught to win
I never thought I could fail

no fight left or so it seems
I am a man whose dreams have all deserted
I've changed my face, I've changed my name
but no one wants you when you lose

don't give up
'cos you have friends
don't give up
you're not beaten yet
don't give up
I know you can make it good

though I saw it all around
never thought I could be affected
thought that we'd be the last to go
it is so strange the way things turn

drove the night toward my home
the place that I was born, on the lakeside
as daylight broke, I saw the earth
the trees had burned down to the ground

don't give up
you still have us
don't give up
we don't need much of anything
don't give up
'cause somewhere there's a place
where we belong

rest your head
you worry too much
it's going to be alright
when times get rough
you can fall back on us
don't give up

'got to walk out of here
I can't take anymore
going to stand on that bridge
keep my eyes down below
whatever may come
and whatever may go
that river's flowing
that river's flowing

moved on to another town
tried hard to settle down
for every job, so many men
so many men no-one needs

don't give up
'cause you have friends
don't give up
you're not the only one
don't give up
no reason to be ashamed
don't give up
you still have us
don't give up now
we're proud of who you are
don't give up
you know it's never been easy
don't give up
'cause I believe there's the a place
there's a place where we belong

Ana, Don't give up!