Love What You Do
This post goes especially to a Mexican friend, Carlos. :)
I promised to go international but it is hard to put into your words most of the things I usually feel. Sorry, dear.
Anyway ... this Divine Comedy lyric expresses very much my way of living and feeling life. Just for you ...
Love What You Do
Living isn't easy
No need to make it harder
Stretch yourself until you snap
Ditch your superstitions
Lose your inhibitions
Tell them you're not coming back
If you want it, you can have it
If you need it, go and get it
Whatever it is you've got to love it
Everybody's running
Round and round in circles
What is it they're trying to prove?
Exercise your freedom
Exorcise those demons
You have got to love what you do
If you want it, you can have it
If you need it, go and get it
Whatever it is you've got to love it
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:-)Obrigado pelas visitas. Bons voos! E beijos barbudos, claro.
The first blog I ever read in my life was 3 or 4 years back ago... no one knows it for sure, but some people -including myself- believe it was Eddie's blog. (Don't ask me the name or the link to it, it doesn't exist anymore)
I still don't know how come I ended up reading your blog almost every day. I guess the "andorinha", the "passarinho" and a very few thousand things that can be read between the lines at your hi5 profile caught my attention. But... the thing is that -and if any of my friends read this comment, they are gonna hate me- Eddie's blog and yours are the only ones I've ever read in my life.
It was a bad night the one I sent you those messages, but next day (today, mexican time) I woke up and "saw thing so much clarer" so, a few hours ago, I got my sixth Pearl Jam tattoo. One word says it all about it: "Release"
Two hours after I got the tattoo on my skin, I tried to finally go "Blogger" and start writing about me... specifically, about the latest tattoo I've got.
Somewhere in the middle of the 80 or something lines I had written so far, necessarily I had to write about you, since somehow it was thanks to you that I had decided to finally go "Blogger". And while I was writing about you, I suddenly stop to check if you had updated your blog and... I found this post for me.
When I was about to start writing this comment, this song from a popular Cuban songwriter, Silvio Rodríguez, started to play in my music player... And then I realized I was not gonna find better appropriate words to explain you why I told you I admire you and what was that I had forgotten that night... and finally, to reply your "Divine Comedy lyric way of living and feeling life"...
Here are the lyrics of the song, for me it's the cuban version of "Release" and "given to fly". It's "in my words", I know, sorry, but in the other hand it's like if this song was made to be in this moment...
"Locuras" Silvio Rodríguez
Hay locuras para la esperanza,
hay locuras también del dolor.
Y hay locuras de allá,
donde el cuerdo no alcanza,
locuras de otro color.
Hay locuras que son poesía,
hay locuras de un raro lugar.
Hay locuras sin nombre,
sin fecha, sin cura,
que no vale la pena curar.
Hay locuras que son
como brazos de mal:
te sorprenden, te arrastran,
te pierden y ya.
Hay locuras de ley,
pero no de buscar.
Hay locuras que son la locura:
personales locuras de dos.
Hay locuras que imprimen
dulces quemaduras,
locuras de Diosa y de Dios.
Hay locuras que hicieron el día,
hay locuras que están por venir.
Hay locuras tan vivas,
tan sanas, tan puras,
que una de ellas será mi morir.
None of the words I've written, are enough to tell how much honored I feel for the post you wrote for me. .. I truly appreciate it, thank you very much.
Carlos.
P.D. There's no need for you to go international... I really, really enjoy trying to figure out what you write in Portuguese. :)
And suddenly ... a comment on one of your Hi5 photos came into my mind but in a present tense way ... Yo tuve un hermano, no nos vimos nunca pero no importaba.
That's the only thing I can think of you right now ...
I'm speechless ... Loved your words! They're such an honour ... :)
I understood each line of "Locuras". I think it's easy for a Portuguese to understand them.
That's very much how I feel life, really ... haciendo locuras. :)
Love.
Que giro, estas amizades internacionais via internet. Tb ja tive uma, e podem tornar-se intensas
PS:
Já que se fala nele, "Ojala" de Silvio Rodriguez é das melhores canções jamais escritas.
:)
O mais engraçado é ser uma banda de música a responsável por juntar tantas nacionalidades ... Conheci o Carlos num jantar de fãs de Pearl Jam que antecedeu a vinda da banda no passado mês de Setembro. Na altura era tanta gente ... polacos, gregos, norte-americanos, alemães, ingleses, brasileiros ... you name it, boy! ... era tanta gente que o Carlos (mexicano) foi uma das pessoas com quem acabei por falar muito pouco, ou nada. Lembro-me bastante bem dele no jantar e nas filas do 10 Club em Lisboa e em Madrid.
O engraçado foi a amizade ter nascido depois, quando foi anunciada uma nova tour europeia para os próximos Junho/Julho. :)
Com toda a certeza, da próxima vez que nos virmos (até porque se passam horas numa fila para entrar para o recinto do concerto) teremos muito mais para conversar ...
... e sim, de um momento para o outro, um desconhecido pode tornar-se numa experiência bastante intensa e inesquecível.
(confesso-te, Luís ... são as mais estimulantes e das quais eu tenho retirado as melhores lições sobre o que é viver)
Este constante cruzar entre as pessoas é qualquer coisa de fascinante, não é?
Beijo bom!
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