saudades de pat & barbara...

a recordar os saudosos timbuk3, dei por mim a desejar que o futuro

fosse tão brilhante que tivéssemos mesmo de usar uns óculos de sol

os timbuk 3 eram só dois, barbara k e pat macdonald, e para mim nunca foram pessoas pequenas. 
nunca percebi aliás por que razão não alcançaram o estrelato - tinham canções brilhantes. 
talvez tivessem cometido o erro de não durarem um pouco mais.

Sometimes little people
 make big mistakes


Sometimes mountains crumble,
 sometimes a heart breaks


We seek love endlessly


We trust our eyes to see


But sometimes little people
 make big mistakes


I never meant to hurt you,
 but what can I say?


And I know
 that you never meant to hurt me, 
things just happen that way


We try to stand so tall

And still we feel so small


We find we're only little people
 after all


aprendi muita coisa com as canções deles, sobretudo que tudo é transitório ou aparente – e que há um reverso da medalha. e as letras continuam sempre brilhantes. no final da sua existência enquanto grupo, os timbuk 3 passaram a quarteto. curiosamente é desse período esta grande canção, em que voltam a ser o duo inicial, quase só com as vozes e guitarras de barbara k. e pat macdonald. se há casal (musical e/ou não só) que devia ter continuado...

Love turned up at her doorstep

Box of candy in his hand

Said “let's go walking in the sunlight”

She said "sorry, I just can't"

She said "Sunshine is dangerous

Sugar can be poison

And love, well that's obvious

Beware of too much happiness"

She said "Love, please be patient

Life's not all sweetness and light

With every dawn comes devastation

For all us creatures of the night"

That's why I say "Sunshine is dangerous

Sugar can be poison

And love, well that's obvious

Beware of too much happiness"

It's so easy to say

Just give your heart away

But I already gave

And what's left I'm saving for a rainy day

Now the sky is partly cloudy

Hazy shadows brush the sand

And you can hear them softly singing

As they go walking hand in hand

They go "Sunshine is dangerous

Sugar can be poison

And love, well that's obvious

Beware of too much happiness"

Rain or shine,

Love is kind,

Life is good,
Knock on wood

atravessar uma ponte, olhar o céu, cheirar as flores, 
voltar a ouvir canções antigas dos timbuk 3: 
pequenas coisas que tornam a vida maior que nós

Eyes to the heavens the city folk say

"Holy cow, it's the Milky Way!"

All the constellations and inbetween

A billion tiny stars that we've never seen

It's the little things

That make life such a big deal

Darlin' little Delaware, the very first state

Unless they're lying on the license plate

I don't know, I don't really care

I just love the sound of your name: Delaware

It's the little things

That make life such a big deal

Like the quest for adventure, the lure of the game

The childish desire for fortune and fame

This petty obsession with power and success

The trivial pursuit of happiness

I want to experience every little thing

I want to hear the dandelions sing

One never knows what one may be missin'

If you talk to the flowers but you never listen

It's the little things

That make life such a big deal

Like drops of rain

That can drive you insane

Like a shooting star

Like bacteria

It's the little things

Like a bird that sings

It's the little things

That make life such a big deal

os timbuk 3 eram 2, barbara k e pat macdonald, um casal surgido do distante e lendário wisconsin.
esta canção soube encontrar o ponto exacto em que o tex-mex se cruza com o reggae,
e é uma das maiores canções da minha vida, que ouço desde sempre.
e a letra é outra pequena e deliciosa obra-prima. 



Don't want nothin fancy
Don't need nothin new
Nothing too expensive
Just a sinful life with you

Give me something borrowed
I'll buy you something blue
I'll trade this life of sorrow
For a sinful life with you

Sinful life - a sinful life with you
No promises of paradise
Just a sinful life with you

Marley was a Rasta
Moses was a Jew
Jesus was an outlaw
Just like me & you

Let love be our religion
Until this life is through
The next best thing to heaven
Is a sinful life with you

Sinful life -- a sinful life with you
The next best thing to heaven
Is a sinful life with you

não sei se barbara k e pat macdonald (o - na altura - casal que corporizava os timbuk 3) teriam ouvido os pink floyd a tocar blues (sim, confirmar aqui...) mas, a acreditar na letra deste azul mais que improvável, também eles sabiam o potencial de gravar samples com cães a uivar. 
a minha única dúvida é se anda mesmo toda a gente a gravá-los...



Sitting in a living room in a condo
Gazmo's on the rug with little Cassy-O
Gazmo's gettin nervous
Cassy wants to sample the dog. She says:
"Bark, howl, do what you like
But if you're going to growl, just growl into the mike
We're gonna play a game called sample the dog"
Sample the dog...
There's a new age family out in North Carolina
A dog named Jamaica, a daughter named China
A son who plays in a band called Sample the Dog
Third world music on the stereo
Dust on the keys of the piano
& China's in the kitchen tryin to sample the dog
Sample the dog...
Now Cassy can't read & China can't write
& the Board of Education mumbles in the night
A prayer for our nation: "Lord let us
Sample the dog..."
The exact same thing is happenin today
In a million homes across the USA
Everybody's workin, tryin to sample the dog