Hikaru Utada

Alcuni videogiocatori potranno già conoscere o almeno aver sentito questo nome. Si tratta infatti della voce che si sente in Kingdom Hearts. Inizialmente pensavo che lei fosse solo la voce di una canzone scritta per il videogioco, mentre ho scoperto da poco che invece è autrice dei suoi testi oltre che cantante, ed è stata la Squaresoft ad aver scelto di usare una sua canzone.

Solitamente preferisco musica italiana piuttosto che straniera, ma le due canzoni che voglio “pubblicizzare” hanno un testo tanto semplice quanto potente, e sono le due canzoni con cui sono andato “in fissa” al momento.

La prima è Simple and Clean:

When you walk away
You don’t hear me say please
Oh baby, don’t go
Simple and clean is the way that you’re making me feel tonight
It’s hard to let it go

You’re giving me too many things
Lately you’re all I need
You smiled at me and said,

Don’t get me wrong I love you
But does that mean I have to meet your father?
When we are older you’ll understand
What I meant when I said “No,
I don’t think life is quite that simple”

When you walk away
You don’t hear me say please
Oh baby, don’t go
Simple and clean is the way that you’re making me feel tonight
It’s hard to let it go

The daily things that keep us all busy
Are confusing me
That’s when you came to me and said,

Wish I could prove I love you
But does that mean I have to walk on water?
When we are older you’ll understand
It’s enough when I say so
And maybe some things are that simple

When you walk away
You don’t hear me say please
Oh baby, don’t go
Simple and clean is the way that you’re making me feel tonight
It’s hard to let it go

Hold me
Whatever lies beyond this morning
Is a little later on
Regardless of warnings the future doesn’t scare me at all / Nothing’s like before

When you walk away
You don’t hear me say please
Oh baby, don’t go
Simple and clean is the way that you’re making me feel tonight
It’s hard to let it go

Hold me
Whatever lies beyond this morning
Is a little later on
Regardless of warnings the future doesn’t scare me at all / Nothing’s like before

Hold me
Whatever lies beyond this morning
Is a little later on
Regardless of warnings the future doesn’t scare me at all / Nothing’s like before

Mentre la seconda è Sanctuary:

In you and I, there’s a new land,
Angels in flight,
[I need more affection than you know]
My sanctuary, my sanctuary,
Where fears and lies melt away,
Music in time,
[I need more affection than you know]
What’s left of me,
What’s left of me now?

I watch you fast asleep,
All I fear means nothing,
In you and I, there’s a new land,
Angels in flight,
[I need more affection than you know]
My sanctuary, my sanctuary,
Where fears and lies melt away,
Music in time,
[I need more affection than you know]
What’s left of me,
What’s left of me?

[So many ups and downs]
My heart’s a battleground
[I need true emotions]
[I need more affection than you know]
[I need true emotions]

You show me how to see
That nothing is whole and nothing is broken,
In you and I there’s a new land,
Angels in flight,
[I need more affection than you know]
My sanctuary, my sanctuary,
Where fears and lies melt away,
Music in time,
[I need more affection than you know]
What’s left of me,
What’s left of me now?

My fears, my lies.. Melt away

[I need more affection than you know]

La seconda ha la particolarità che le frasi fra parentesi quadre non riuscirete mai a riconoscerle dal cantato… Ma questo è un piccolo segreto che lascio irrisolto 😛

Vengo dalla luna

E’un po che non postavo una canzone, a dire il vero non sto ascoltando molta musica in generale, anche se tra i miei propositi c’è quello di non fossilizzarsi sul vecchio e ascoltare cose nuove. Ma questa ci piace e intanto la ascoltiamo.