musicas.mus.br
Letras de músicas - letra de música - letra da música - letras e cifras - letras traduzidas - letra traduzida - lyrics - paroles - lyric - canciones - TWO OR THREE SPECTRES - PETER HAMMILL - música e letra
Utilize o abecedário abaixo para abrir as páginas de letras dos artistas
Two Or Three Spectres letra
"Sod the music," said the man in the suit,
"I understand profit and without that, it's no use,
Why don't you go away and write commercial songs;
come back in three years, that shouldn't be too long..."
He's a joker and an acrobat,
a record exec. in a Mayfair flat
with Altec speakers wall to wall,
a Radford and a Revox and through it all he plays
strictly nowhere Muzak.
"Hey, listen, baby, this band's got a lot of soul...
if we can beat that out of them I see a disc of gold!
Give them an image, maybe glitter, maybe sex,
maybe outrage, maybe elegance -
how about as nervous wrecks?"
Signs up the product at two percent,
justified by vinyl shortage and the increased rent
on the yacht he has to hire to make his pitch at Midem
and all the press receptions for his business friends
who spill their Taittinger upon the floor
while the band sip English lager just outside the door.
Treble, alto, bass clefs on the page,
crotchets, quavers, minims all the rage
but you'll never find a -L- in the score -
it's there when it's strictly merchandise,
through all the propagated lies 'bout what the whole thing's for!
He'll make you a star, he'll make you so famous
that all you desire is to be left nameless,
drained of all you felt you had to offer at the start.
Not without blame, either, are the gentlemen of the press:
you can talk about the state of music,
they will writer about your dress.
Play them the new album, they will say it's great (or not) -
when the articles come out, they're all about
how many dogs you've got.
God to keep the human interest high,
and the hacks are only too willing to comply,
pander to the ego, build up frail men as gods -
but somewhere in the process, the prime purpose is forgotten.
Groupies offer their bodies, the hangers-on their coke;
it's all very jolly - what a joke!
Fellini creatures cluster round the dressing-room.
the heavenly bodies all got to have their moons.
In the cult of the superman the music plays a supporting role
and far more important is the shape of his nose,
the size of his codpiece and the cut of his clothes...
soul and feeling always take second place
to the bump and grind of a Fender bass.
Frankly, most musicians bore me - but not as much as those
who chase the glory to bask in reflected light,
making the man much more important
than his arpeggios and mordants,
when it's the other way that's right.
On the values by which this world makes its heroes
then the best violinist ever was Nero,
because he had the most Press
and his fire gimmick was simply the best.
We got the live thing too, the Human Zoo:
Ten thousand arms are raised, just like the Hitler Youth -
Ten thousand peace signs mark the entry of the sax;
ten thousand peace signs,
but they're different from the back
Peter Hammill - Letras
- (No More) The Submariner
- (On Tuesday She Used To Do) Yoga
- A Better Time
- A Forest Of Pronouns
- A Headlong Stretch: i. Up Ahead
- A Headlong Stretch: ii. Continental Drift
- A Headlong Stretch: iii. The Twelve
- A Headlong Stretch: iv. Long Light
- A Headlong Stretch: v. Backwards Man
- A Headlong Stretch: vi. As You Were
- A Headlong Stretch: vii. Or So I Said
- A Louse Is Not A Home
- Again
- Been Alone So Long
- Candle
- Child
- Comfortable
- Crying Wolf
- Faint-Heart and the Sermon
- Ferret And Featherbird
- Fight
- Forsaken Gardens
- Four Pails
- Gog
- Happy
- I Once Wrote Some Poems
- Imperial Zeppelin
- Just Good Friends
- Lost And Found
- Magog (In Bromine Chambers)
- Man-Erg
- Material Possession
- Mediaevil
- Mirror Images
- Modern
- Mr. X (Gets Tense)
- My Experience
- My Favourite
- Nadir's Big Chance
- Narcissus (Bar & Grill)
- Nightman
- No Moon In The Water
- Nobody's Business
- None Of The Above
- Not For Keith
- Not The Man
- Nothing Comes
- Now Lover
- Now More Than Ever
- Oasis
- On The Surface
- Open your Eyes (The Locarno Song)
- Ophelia
- Other Old Clichés
- Our Oyster
- Painting By Numbers
- Palinurus (Castaway)
- Paradox Drive
- Patient
- People You Were Going To
- Personality
- Phosphorescence
- Planet Coventry
- Pompeii
- Porton Down
- Power Of Speech
- Primo on the Parapet
- Pushing Thirty
- Rain, 3 a.m.
- Ram Origami
- Re-Awakening
- Red Shift
- Reprise
- Rock and Rôle
- Rubicon
- Sci-Finance
- Seven Wonders
- Sharply Unclear
- She Wraps It Up
- Shell
- Shingle Song
- Sign
- Silver
- Since The Kids
- Sitting Targets
- Skin
- Sleep Now
- Slender Threads
- Smile
- Solitude
- Something About Ysabel's Dance
- Still In The Dark
- Still Life
- Stranger Still
- Stupid
- Summer Song (In the Autumn)
- Sun City Nightlife
- Sunshine
- Tapeworm
- Tenderness
- The Birds
- The Comet, The Course, The Tail
- The Cut
- The Future Now
- The Gift of Fire (Talk Turkey)
- The Great European Department Store
- The Great Experiment
- The Institute Of Mental Health, Burning
- The Jargon King
- The Lie (Bernini's St. Theresa)
- The Light Continent
- The Meanings Changed
- The Moebius Loop
- The Mousetrap (Caught In)
- The Noise
- The Old School Tie
- The Play's The Thing
- The Polaroid
- The Second Hand
- The Spirit
- The Tower
- The Unconscious Life
- This Book
- This Side Of The Looking Glass
- Time For A Change
- Time Heals
- Time To Burn
- Too Many Of My Yesterdays
- Traintime
- Trappings
- Two Or Three Spectres
- Under Cover Names
- Unrehearshed
- Viking
- Vision
- Vote Brand X
- What I Did
- What's it Worth?
- When Language Corrodes
- Where The Mouth Is
- Wilhelmina
- You Can't Want What You Always Get...
- You Hit Me Where I Live
- Your Word
top 30 músicas
©2003 - 2024 - musicas.mus.br