Ian Curtis - 30 anos após

Ian Curtis suicidou-se há 30 anos. Grande poeta e músico, fez do Joy Division, sua banda, um dos grupos mais cultuados, imitados e influenciadores de outros artistas desde então. Inclusive no Brasil, com Renato Russo e sua Legião Urbana. E isso tudo em um curto espaço de tempo. Grande poeta maldito, que relembra Rimbaud também em sua estória de vida. Rendo aqui minha homenagem a Curtis publicando duas de suas canções, The Eternal e a clássica e inevitável Love Will Tear Us Apart.

Primeiro, a letra de The Eternal.

Procession moves on, the shouting is over,

Praise to the glory of loved ones now gone.

Talking aloud as they sit round their tables,

Scattering flowers washed down by the rain.

Stood by the gate at the foot of the garden,

Watching them pass like clouds in the sky,

Try to cry out in the heat of the moment,

Possessed by a fury that burns from inside.

Cry like a child, though these years make me older,

With children my time is so wastefully spent,

A burden to keep, though their inner communion,

Accept like a curse an unlucky deal.

Played by the gate at the foot of the garden,

My view stretches out from the fence to the wall,

No words could explain, no actions determine,

Just watching the trees and the leaves as they fall.

E então Love Will Tear us Apart.

When the routine bites hard
and ambitions are low
And the resentment rides high
but emotions won't grow
And we're changing our ways,
taking different roads
Then love, love will tear us apart again

Why is the bedroom so cold
Turned away on your side?
Is my timing that flawed,
our respect run so dry?
Yet there's still this appeal
That we've kept through our lives
Love, love will tear us apart again

Do you cry out in your sleep
All my failings exposed
Get a taste in my mouth
As desperation takes hold
Is it something so good
Just can't function no more?
When love, love will tear us apart again



E para finalizar, Thom Yorke (Radiohead) e Atoms For Peace em cover de Love Will...