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sábado, agosto 12, 2023

Manifesto do Homem do Pescoço Vermelho.

Oliver Anthony, num hino redneck que é absolutamente belo, verdadeiro e pungente. O mais próximo que temos de música de intervenção neste conformista século XXI. Por isso, convém prestar atenção ao poema. Mesmo.


I've been selling my soul
Working all day
Overtime hours
For bullshit pay
So I can sit out here and waste my life away
Drag back home and drown my troubles away

It's a damn shame
What the world's gotten to
For people like me and people like you
Wish I could just wake up and it not be true
But it is, oh, it is
Living in the new world
With an old soul
These rich men north of Richmond
Lord knows they all just want to have total control
Wanna know what you think
Wanna know what you do
And they don't think you know, but I know that you do
Cause your dollar ain't shit, and it's taxed to no end
'Cause of rich men north of Richmond

I wish politicians would look out for miners
And not just minors on an island somewhere
Lord, we got folks in the street, ain't got nothing to eat
And the obese milking welfare
Well God, if you're 5 foot 3 and you're 300 pounds
Taxes ought not to pay for your bags of fudge rounds
Young men are putting themselves six feet in the ground
'Cause all this damn country does is keep on kicking them down

Lord, it's a damn shame
What the world's gotten to
For people like me and people like you
Wish I could just wake up and it not be true
But it is, oh, it is
Living in the new world
With an old soul
These rich men north of Richmond
Lord knows they all just want to have total control
Wanna know what you think
Wanna know what you do
And they don't think you know, but I know that you do
'Cause your dollar ain't shit, and it's taxed to no end
'Cause of rich men north of Richmond

I've been selling my soul
Working all day
Overtime hours
For bullshit pay

Oliver Anthony . Rich Men North Of Richmond

quarta-feira, agosto 23, 2023

Uma espécie de Ezequiel.

Canta o profeta Anthony:

Well, if it won't for my old dogs and the good Lord
They'd have me strung up in the psych ward
'Cause every day livin' in this new world
Is one too many days to me

Son, we're on the brink of the next world war
And I don't think nobody's prayin' no more
And I ain't sayin I know it for sure
I'm just down on my knees

Beggin', Lord, take me home
I wanna go home
I don't know which road to go
It's been so long
I just know I didn't used to wake up feelin' this way
Cussin' myself every damn day
There's always some kind of bill to pay
People just doin' what the rich men say
I wanna go home

Now four generations farmin' the ground
Grandson sells it to a man out of town
And two weeks later the trees go down
Only got concrete growin' around

And I wanna go home
I wanna go home
I don't know which road to go
It's been so long
I just know I didn't used to wake up feelin' this way
Cussin' myself every damn day
People have really gone and lost their way
They all just do what the TV say
I wanna go home

If it won't for my old dogs and the good Lord
They'd have me strung up in the psych ward


Oliver Anthony . I Want to Go Home

quarta-feira, junho 04, 2025

Este rapazinho aqui continua a fazer das dele.

Depois de ter recusado um contrato milionário, Oliver Anthony continua a compor e interpretar a sua música dissidente e intrincada, temperada por uma angústia que faz vibrar todas as cordas da minha sensibilidade.

E o solo de Rabeca deste tema, bom Deus, deixa-me completamente arrepiado, poça.