Buenos días: Get Me Away From Here, I’m Dying, Belle & Sebastian

por Daniela Paz

Empezar el día con una canción feliz y animosa es un muy buen ejercicio, y para esto muchas canciones de Belle & Sebastian son perfectas; relajan y te ponen contento, porque es imposible no mover la cabeza pernamente y sonreír con una melodía tan linda como es la de Get Me Away From Here, del disco If You’re Feeling Sinister de 1996 (que a todo esto esta considerado dentro del libro que muero por tener: 1001 Discos que hay que escuchar antes de morir)

No es casualidad que muchas bandas sonoras tengan a Belle & Sebastian entre sus artistas, porque son capaces de dar una linda atmósfera a las  escena como en Juno, The Devil Wears Prada y en Forgetting Sarah Marshall, donde con esta canción el protagonista vuelve a esta feliz. Buenos días!

Ooh! Get me away from here I’m dying
Play me a song to set me free
Nobody writes them like they used to
So it may as well be me
Here on my own now after hours
Here on my own now on a bus
Think of it this way
You could either be successful or be us
With our winning smiles, and us
With our catchy tunes, and us
Now we’re photogenic
You know, we don’t stand a chance

Oh, I’ll settle down with some old story
About a boy who’s just like me
Thought there was love in everything and everyone
You’re so naive!
They always reach a sorry ending
They always get it in the end.
Still it was worth it as I turned the pages solemnly, and then
With a winning smile, the boy
With naivety succeeds
At the final moment, I cried
I always cry at endings

Oh, that wasn’t what I meant to say at all
From where I’m sitting, rain
Washing against the lonely tenement
Has set my mind to wander
Into the windows of my lovers
They never know unless I write
“This is no declaration, I just thought I’d let you know goodbye”
Said the hero in the story
“It is mightier than swords
I could kill you sure
But I could only make you cry with these words”