The Best Songs In the World #24 - Roxy Music - "A Song for Europe"

From their 1973 album "Stranded", this declaration of love for Europe with a bitter taste is a must have in every home. The dettached style of Bryan Ferry is perfect for the recitiative style of the first part of the song, but he gains full control in the last part, specially when he beguns reciting and latin and (hallucinated) french...


Songwriters: MACKAY, ANDREW EDWIN / FERRY, BRYAN

Here as I sit
At this empty café
Thinking of you
I remember
All those moments
Lost in wonder
That we'll never
Find again
Though the world
Is my oyster
It's only a shell
Full of memories
And here by the Seine
Notre-Dame casts
A long lonely shadow

Now, only sorrow
No tomorrow
There's no today for us
Nothing is there
For us to share
But yesterday
These cities may change
But there always remains
My obsession
Through silken waters
My gondola glides
And the bridge, it sighs

I remember
All those moments
Lost in wonder
That we'll never
Find again
There's no more time for us
Nothing is there
For us to share
But yesterdays

Ecce momenta
Illa mirabilia
Quae captabit
In aeternum
Memor
Modo dolores
Sunt in dies
Non est reliquum
Vero tantum
Comminicamus
Perdita
Tous ces moments
Perdus dans l`enchantement
Qui ne reviendront
Jamais
Pas d´aujourd´hui pour nous
Pour nous il n´y a rien
A partager
Sauf le passé

Phil Manzanera

Ainda anda por aí na FNAC uma edição de uma colectânea em CD triplo de Phil Manzanera, o versátil e corrosivo guitarrista dos Roxy Music, 801, que trabalhou com Brian Eno em alguns álbuns a solo e que fez em nome próprio alguns álbuns notáveis, de expansão da linguagem do instrumento. O CD, que se compõe de 2 CD e um DVD custa, e esta é a parte boa, 7,99€, podendo custar 5€ se comprarem outro de igual preço. Trata-se, pois, de uma pechincha, a que o Perú não quis ficar alheio numa altura em que o FMI nos vai esvaziar os bolsos...