{"id":413,"date":"2018-01-25T15:25:31","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T23:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ralockhart.com\/WP\/?p=413"},"modified":"2018-01-25T15:25:31","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T23:25:31","slug":"song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/song\/","title":{"rendered":"SONG"},"content":{"rendered":"

Song<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

You know those songs that get stuck in your head and go around and around and at some point disappear as if they had fallen off a cliff? These round and rounds are called “earworms.” My current problem is not an earworm, but a repeating desire<\/em> to hear a particular song. The song doesn’t stick in my head like an earworm, but the desire to hear it is Velcroed there. I don’t know if there is a technical term for this, but it is insistent, named or not. So I listen again and again. I listen to O Homem do Leme<\/em> by various performers. My favorite and current object of obsession is the version that Mariza and Tim did at the 2012 Rock in Rio Lisbon Festival in Lisbon, Portugal (https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rTq9W6IblGY<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Who knows why these things happen? I don’t, but I do know they are important. Is it the beat? The melody? The lyrics? It’s something of all these, I think, together<\/em>, forming some kind of whole<\/em> that sparks something in me that wants (desires) to be with it, immersed in it, moving with it. I know it’s Portuguese Fado. I know Mariza is my favorite Fado voice. But not knowing Portuguese, I did not know what the words were saying.<\/p>\n

I sent the lyrics Paco and he immediately sent back a beautiful translation. Even before I knew what the magical Portuguese said, I knew that some of the lines and verses were functioning like mysterious rays penetrating deep into me.<\/p>\n

Here is Paco’s translation:<\/p>\n

THE WHEEL MAN<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alone in the night
\nA boat courses to where it goes.
\nA light in the dark shines ahead
\nObfuscates the rest<\/p>\n

And more than one wave, more that one tide
\nThey tried to arrest him impose him a faith
\nBut, sailing to the will, breaking the longing(=saudade)
\nGoes the one who fears nothing else, goes the wheel man<\/p>\n

And a will to smile, is born from the bottom of the being
\nAnd a will to go, run the world and leave
\nLife is allways losing<\/p>\n

In the bottom of the sea
\nLie the others, the ones who there stayed
\nIn grey days
\nEternal rest they found there<\/p>\n

And more than one wave, more that one tide
\nThey tried to arrest him impose him a faith
\nBut, sailing to the will, breaking the longing(=saudade)
\nGoes the one who fears nothing else, goes the wheel man<\/p>\n

And a will to smile, is born from the bottom of the being
\nAnd a will to go, run the world and leave
\nLife is allways losing<\/p>\n

In the deep horizon
\nBlows the murmur to where he goes
\nIn the deep of time
\nFlees the future, it’s too late<\/p>\n

And a will to smile, is born from the bottom of the being
\nAnd a will to go, run the world and leave
\nLife is always losing<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

It’s next to last verse of the lettra that got me even before I knew what it was. And now? I’ll let you know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Song You know those songs that get stuck in your head and go around and around and at some point disappear as if they had fallen off a cliff? These round and rounds are called “earworms.” My current problem is not an earworm, but a repeating desire to hear a particular song. The song doesn’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coming-soon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":414,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions\/414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}