sabato, ottobre 14, 2006

Cancion para hoy 43

Gloomy Sunday-Billie Holiday

Blues significa triste. La vida de Billie Holiday tuvo mucho de eso. Nacida como Eleanora Gough Harris, tuvo que lidiar con pobreza, abandono paterno y una temprana violación a los diez años. Además los hombres que eligió se aprovecharon y abusaron de ella. También tuvo relaciones con seres de su mismo sexo como la actriz Tallulah Bankhead. Las drogas (heroína) hicieron que el hígado de Lady Day explotara a la edad de 44 años, causándole la muerte.


Sunday is gloomy,
My hours are slumberless
Dearest the shadows
I live with are numberless
Little white flowers
Will never awaken you
Not where the black coaches
Sorrow has taken you
Angels have no thoughts
Of ever returning you
Wouldn´t they be angry
If I thought of joining you?


Gloomy sunday
Gloomy is sunday,
With shadows I spend it all
My heart and I
Have decided to end it all
Soon there´ll be candles
And prayers that are said I know
But let them not weep
Let them know that Im glad to go
Death is no dream
For in death Im caressin you
With the last breath of my soul
I ´ll be blessin you

Gloomy sunday
Dreaming, I was only dreaming
I wake and I find you asleep
In the deep of my heart here
Darling I hope
That my dream never haunted you
My heart is tellin you
How much I wanted you
Gloomy sunday

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