hola, me ha encantado este foro. esta es la primera vez que yo publico algo en un foro... bueno, sobre la fobia social creo que trata por ejemplo THE FOOL ON THE HILL de the beatles o la de PEOPLE ARE STRANGE de los Doors; pero a mí siempre me han dicho mucho más dos temas de simon and garfunkel: I AM A ROCK y A MOST PECULIAR MAN. son dos de mis canciones favoritas. Por favor, si sabéis inglés, leedlas con atención,... si no , yo intentaré otro día poneros una traducción un poco "chapucera" (mezclo el ingles con el asturiano, jeje) . ánimo a todos /as y gracias por leer este mensaje.
ahí van:
Simon and Garfunkel
I Am a Rock
A winter's day
In a deep and dark December
I am alone
Gazing from my window
To the streets below
On a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow
I am a rock
I am an island
I've built walls
A fortress deep and mighty
That none may penetrate
I have no need for friendship
Friendship causes pain
It's laughter and it's loving I disdain.
I am a rock
I am an island
Don't talk of love
Well, I've heard the word before
It's sleeping in my memory
I won't disturb the slumber
Of feelings that have died
If I'd never loved,
I never would have cried
I am a rock
I am an island
I have my books
And my poetry to protect me
I am shielded in my armor
Hiding in my room
Safe within my womb
I touch no-one and no-one touches me
I am a rock
I am an island
And the rock feels no pain
And an island never crie
A Most Peculiar Man (P. Simon, 1965)
He was a most peculiar man.
That's what Mrs. Riordan said and she should know;
She lived upstairs from him
She said he was a most peculiar man.
He was a most peculiar man.
He lived all alone within a house,
Within a room, within himself,
A most peculiar man.
He had no friends, he seldom spoke
And no one in turn ever spoke to him,
'Cause he wasn't friendly and he didn't care
And he wasn't like them.
Oh, no! he was a most peculiar man.
He died last Saturday.
He turned on the gas and he went to sleep
With the windows closed so he'd never wake up
To his silent world and his tiny room;
And Mrs. Riordan says he has a brother somewhere
Who should be notified soon.
And all the people said, "What a shame that he's dead,
But wasn't he a most peculiar man?"