11 Marzo

Hoy se cumplen 11 años de los atentados del 11 de Marzo. Un recuerdo de aquella fatídica fecha de las manos, y la voz, de Amaral:

-Tracy Chapman - Behind the Wall

Last night I heard the screaming
Loud voices behind the wall
Another sleepless night for me
It won’t do no good to call
The police always come late
If they ever come at all
And when they arrive
They say they can’t interfere
With domestic affairs
Between a man and his wife
And as they walk out the door
The tears well up in her eyes
Last night I heard the screaming
Then a silence that chilled the soul
I prayed that I was dreaming
When I saw the ambulance in the road
And the policeman said
‘I’m here to keep the peace
Will the crowd disperse
I think we all could use some slee

-Bad Wisdom (Suzanne Vega)

Mother the doctor knows something is wrong

Cause my body has strange information
He's looked in my eyes and knows I'm not a child
But he doesn't dare ask the right question
Mother my friends are no longer my friends
And the games we once played have no meaning
I've gone serious and shy and they can't figure why
So they've left me to my own daydreaming
What price to pay, For bad wisdom
What price to pay, For bad wisdom
Too young to know, Too much too soon
Bad wisdom, Bad wisdom
Mother you've taught me the laws are so fine
If I'm good that I will be protected
I've fallen through the crack and there's no getting back
And I'll never trust whoever gets elected
Mother your eyes have gone suddenly cold
And it wasn't what I was expecting
Once I did think that I'd find comfort there
And instead you've gone hard and sus-pecting
What price to pay...
Mother I'm cut at the root like a weed
Cause there's no one to hear my small story
Just like a woman who walks in the street
I will pay for my life with my body
What price to pay...

-Never Again (Nickleback)

He's drunk again, it's time to fight
She must have done something wrong tonight
The living room becomes a boxing ring
It's time to run when you see him
Clenching his hands, She's just a woman
Never Again
I hear her scream, from down the hall
Amazing she can even talk at all
She cries to me, Go back to bed
I'm terrified that she'll wind up dead in his hands,
She's just a woman, Never Again
Been there before, but not like this
Seen it before, but not like this
Never before have I ever
Seen it this bad, She's just a woman
Never Again
Just tell the nurse, you slipped and fell
It starts to sting as it starts to swell
She looks at you, she wants the truth
It's right out there in the waiting room
With those hands
Lookin just as sweet as he can,
Never Again
Been there before, but not like this
Seen it before, but not like this
Never before have I ever
Seen it this bad, She's just a woman
Never Again