já aqui falei dos television, uma banda que nunca teve a atenção que merecia.
quando me perguntam que canção escolheria para retratar o rock nos anos 70 (punk e new-wave incluídos) ocorrem-me sempre duas: esta, e esta. 
é verdade que nunca chego a tomar uma decisão, mas nisso não vejo mal...



What I want
I want now
and it's a whole lot more
than 'anyhow'
I want to fly
fly a fountain
I want to jumpjumpjump
jump a mountain

Iunderstandall... I see no...
Destructiveurges... I see no...
Itseemssoperfect... I see noo...
I see... I see no... I see no evil

I get ideas
I get a notion
I want a nice little boat
made out of ocean.
I get your point.
You're so sharp.
Getting good reactions
with your ''BeBo'' talk.

Don't say unconscious
No don't say doom.
If you got to say it
let me leave this room
Cuz what I want
I want now
and it's a whole lot more
than 'anyhow.'

I'm runnin wild with the one i love
I see no evil
I'm runnin wild with the one-eyed ones
I see no evil
Pull down the future with the one you love
Pull down the future

surgidos do nada no início dos anos setenta, os television foram a segunda grande banda novaiorquina após os velvet underground.
uma coisa engraçada, passados estes anos todos, é haver quem diga que eram um grupo proto-punk mas também quem afirme que eram um grupo pós-punk - tendo eles sempre passado ao lado do movimento punk.
escrita por tom verlaine, esta canção ainda hoje mantém intacta a essência do que foram aqueles anos.



I remember how the darkness doubled
I recall lightning struck itself.
I was listening, listening to the rain
I was hearing, hearing something else.

Life in the hive puckered up my night,
The kiss of death, the embrace of life.
There I stand neath the Marquee Moon 
Just waiting, hesitating... I ain't waiting.

I spoke to a man down at the tracks.
I asked him how he don't go mad.
He said "Look here Junior, don't you be so happy
And for Heaven's sake, don't you be so sad".

Well a Cadillac, it pulled out of the graveyard.
Pulled up to me, all they said get in.
Then the Cadillac, it puttered back into the graveyard.
And me, I got out again.