Mis propuestas, no necesariamente vinculadas directamente con la Navidad, son las siguientes:
1) Hallelujah de Jeff Buckley. Con el permiso de su autor e intérprete original, el maestro Leonard Cohen, el Hallelujah de Buckley es uno de los temas más conmovedores que existen. La que sigue es una versión en directo extraída del DVD Live in Chicago, grabado en 1995. Sólo dos años después, uno de los artistas más prometedores que han dado los EE.UU. moriría en trágicas circunstancias. Eso mitificaría aún más una canción tan mágica como ésta:
Well maybe there's a God above
But all I've ever learned from love
Was how to shoot somebody who'd out drew ya
And it's not a cry that you hear at night
It's not somebody who's seen in the light
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah
Hallelujah
But all I've ever learned from love
Was how to shoot somebody who'd out drew ya
And it's not a cry that you hear at night
It's not somebody who's seen in the light
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah
Hallelujah
2) Let me sleep (it's Christmas time) de Pearl Jam. El grupo de Seattle tiene por costumbre editar un single navideño cada año para uso y disfrute exclusivo de los miembros de su club de fans. Esta tradición nos ha dejado temas como éste, del año 1991:
Cold wind blows on the soles of my feet
Heaven knows nothing of me
I'm lost, nowhere to go
Oh, when I was a kid...oh, how magic it seemed
Oh, please let me sleep, it's Christmas time
Heaven knows nothing of me
I'm lost, nowhere to go
Oh, when I was a kid...oh, how magic it seemed
Oh, please let me sleep, it's Christmas time
3) Winter de Tori Amos. Un tema precioso de 1992 que la cantante dedica a su padre. En un sentido estricto, no tiene nada que ver con la Navidad pero su letra destila ese sentimiento de conciliación que debería impregnar estas fechas.
Hair is grey
And the fires are burning
So many dreams
On the shelf
You say I wanted you to be proud of me
I always wanted that myself
And the fires are burning
So many dreams
On the shelf
You say I wanted you to be proud of me
I always wanted that myself
He says
When you gonna make up your mind
When you gonna love you as much as I do
When you gonna make up your mind
Cause things are gonna change so fast
All the white horses have gone ahead
I tell you that I'll always want you near
You say that things change
My dear
When you gonna make up your mind
When you gonna love you as much as I do
When you gonna make up your mind
Cause things are gonna change so fast
All the white horses have gone ahead
I tell you that I'll always want you near
You say that things change
My dear
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