Elvis Costello - Verónica

Hay canciones que no necesitan más que una guitarra y voz para llenar un escenario, para trasmitir, y esto le ocurre a la de hoy, y más en esta versión.

Es curioso, cuando escuche por primera vez este video, oía los demás instrumentos que acompañan al tema en su versión del disco. Cuanto más la he oido, los he dejado escuchar y he sentido dentro una grna emoción por la interpretación. Falta la voz de Paul McCartey, co-autor de la letra, pero aun así no desmerece un ápice. Es sensacional.

Verónica no es un canción de amor, o si...Habla de mujer mayor que sufre perdidas de memoria, que alterna con, como dijo en una entrevista Costello, Terroríficos momentos de lucidez. La letra esta inspirada en su abuela, la cual padeció alzeimer. Y la ternura con que lo expresa todo, lo canta, lo vive...muestra amor.

No quiero añadir nada más...toca disfrutar del tema...



"Is it all in that pretty little head of yours?
What goes on in that place in the dark?
Well I used to know a girl and I would have sworn that her name was Veronica

Well she used to have a carefree mind of her own
And a delicate look in her eye
These days I'm afraid she's not even sure if her name is Veronica

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Do you suppose, that waiting hands on eyes
Veronica has gone to hide
And all the time she laughs at those who shout
Her name and steal her clothes
Veronica
Veronica

Did the days drag by, did the favors wane
Did he roam down the town all the time
Will you wake from your dream, with a wolf at the door,
Reaching out for Veronica

Well it was all of sixty-five years ago
When the world was the street where she lived
And a young man sailed on a ship in the sea
With a picture of Veronica

On the "Empress of India" and as she closed her eyes upon the world
And picked upon the bones of last week's news
She spoke his name out loud again

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Veronica sits in her favorite chair
and she sits very quiet and still
And they call her a name that they never get right
And if they don't then nobody else will

But she used to have a carefree mind of her own,
With a devilish look in her eye
Saying "You can call me anything you like,
But my name is Veronica"

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