Prefab Sprout - Cars & Girls

No sé porque...pero los sábados por la mañana me levanto ochentero....

Y este sin duda fue uno de los albumes que me marcó en aquella época. El sonido de esta banda, así como la voz de Paddy McAloon me resultaron cautivadoras desde un principio. El album From Langley Park To Memphis fue para mi toda una sorpresa y junto a los The Housemartins de lo que más escuché en aquella época. La crítica les alabó y les bendijo con sus favores, sin embargo, a excepción de este tema y alguno más, que ya puse en su dia, de este disco, la gente no les hizo mucho caso. Y no saben lo que se perdieron. Curiosa la integración de la única chica de la banda, que era en un principio seguidora de la misma, y que termino como bajo y coros. El fin de la banda de los escenarios se produce, sobre todo, por una rar enfermedad en la vista que aqueja al cantante. El pop rock de estos británicos se caracteriza por unas letras muy elaboradas y profundas.

La letra de este tema, no habla solo de coches y chicas, sino de que hay más cosas que las obsesiones por algo...ahí es nada.

Abrigaos si vais a salir y disfrutad de este día de invierno puro y duro.



"Brucie dreams life's a highway too many roads bypass my way
Or they never begin. innocence coming to grief
At the hands of life - stinkin' car thief, that's my concept of sin
Does heaven wait all heavenly over the next horizon ?

But look at us now, quit driving, some things hurt more much more than cars and girls.
Just look at us now, start counting, what adds up the way it did when we were young ?
Look at us now, quit driving, some things hurt much more than cars and girls.

Life's a drive through a dust bowl, what's it do, do to a young soul
We are deeply concerned, someone stops for directions,
Something responds deep in our engines, we have all been burned
Will heaven wait all heavenly over the next horizon ?

But look at us now, quit driving, some things hurt more much more than cars and girls.
Just look at us now, start counting, what adds up the way it did when we were young ?
Look at us now, quit driving, some things hurt much more than cars and girls.

Little boy got a hot rod, thinks it makes him some kind of new god
Well this is one race he won't win,
'cos life's no cruise with a cool chick
Too many folks feelin' car sick, but it never pulls in.
Brucie's thoughts - pretty streamers
- guess this world needs it's dreamers may they never wake up.

But look at us now, quit driving, some things hurt more much more than cars and girls.
Just look at us now, start counting, what adds up the way it did when we were young ?
Look at us now, quit driving, some things hurt much more than cars and girls.

But look at us now, quit driving, some things hurt more much more than cars and girls.
Just look at us now, start counting, what adds up the way it did when we were young ?
Look at us now, quit driving, some things hurt much more than cars and girls. "