Já o disse no Monstro (passe a publicidade, www.monstrogigante.blogspot.com), a música é, a par da literatura, do cinema e do teatro, a melhor das formas de fazer chegar ás pessoas a Mensagem... Isto foi algo que aprendi com heróis como Bob Marley, Thom Yorke, entre outros.
Por isso mesmo, em jeito de post iniciático, deixo as seguintes palavras, que ainda falta a muita gente levar em consideração:
Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights! Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights! Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights! Get up, stand up: don't give up the fight!
Preacherman, don't tell me, Heaven is under the earth. I know you don't know What life is really worth. It's not all that glitters is gold; 'Alf the story has never been told: So now you see the light, eh! Stand up for your rights. Come on!
Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights! Get up, stand up: don't give up the fight! Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights! Get up, stand up: don't give up the fight!
Most people think, Great God will come from the skies, Take away everything And make everybody feel high. But if you know what life is worth, You will look for yours on earth: And now you see the light, You stand up for your rights. Jah!
Get up, stand up! (Jah, Jah!) Stand up for your rights! (Oh-hoo!) Get up, stand up! (Get up, stand up!) Don't give up the fight! (Life is your right!) Get up, stand up! (So we can't give up the fight!) Stand up for your rights! (Lord, Lord!) Get up, stand up! (Keep on struggling on!) Don't give up the fight! (Yeah!)
We sick an' tired of-a your ism-skism game - Dyin' 'n' goin' to heaven in-a Jesus' name, Lord. We know when we understand: Almighty God is a living man. You can fool some people sometimes, But you can't fool all the people all the time. So now we see the light (What you gonna do?), We gonna stand up for our rights! (Yeah, yeah, yeah!)
So you better: Get up, stand up! (In the morning! Git it up!) Stand up for your rights! (Stand up for our rights!) Get up, stand up! Don't give up the fight! (Don't give it up, don't give it up!) Get up, stand up! (Get up, stand up!) Stand up for your rights! (Get up, stand up!) Get up, stand up! ( ... ) Don't give up the fight! (Get up, stand up!) Get up, stand up! ( ... ) Stand up for your rights! Get up, stand up! Don't give up the fight!
A mim, o reggae toca-me. Faz-me sentir que a vida é movimento, tal como ensina Sócrates. E a vocês?
O Aristóteles, bem como o Sócrates não deviam ser músicos por aí além...
Quanto ao reggae, gosto muito.
especialmente do tipo de raggae de que falas... Marley, Tosh e coisas assim.
Já não vou tanto à bola com cromos tipo UB40, por exemplo.
O Reggae assumiu-se como música de libertação, não só espiritual, como corporal - intensamente corporal... e relembro com saudade as minhas primeiras festas reggae, lá nos idos de 80, quando os "aditivos" eram de qualidade e nos desprendíamos completamente das convençõezinhas ao dançar naquela praia ali para os lados de Leça...
Esse é, precisamente, também o meu estilo de reggae. Nestas coisas, quanto mais Mensagem melhor...
E por isso mesmo de Mensagem:
No Nuclear War We don't want no nuclear war With nuclear war we won't get far I said that We don't want no nuclear war With nuclear war we won't get far
Said no, just another holocaust It's just another holocaust And we can't take no more (CHORUS)
Too many people are hungry They don't have food to eat They are naked 'Cause they don't have clothes to wear
They are going insane Because of the condition A million babies Are suffering from malnutrition
CHORUS I can't take no more
I saw WWI Where lotsa trouble begun I saw WWII When the pirates came right through
Lookin' for WWIII But you got to set me free Free from the chains And this here misery
CHORUS We can't take no more
Unemployment I said the rate is high So much sick people I'm sure they gonna die
So much mad people Gettin' ready to explode 'Fore somebody Come help them carry this load
CHORUS
One country deploying MX Another country deploying SS Inflation goin' way up high And the dollar is going way down low
CHORUS
Crying, bawling, they can't take no more I hear them moaning they can't take no more They don't wanna die They want to go to Heaven, yeah
But they can't They can't take no more They gettin' low They can't take no more
They gettin' grief They can't take no more They gettin' beat They can't take no more
They gettin' lazy Cause They can't take no more Bored They can't take no more
Frustrated They can't take no more Pleading for them They can't take no more
Can't you hear me pleading for them Cause They can't take no more
They want to live in peace And happiness Let the trees grow Let the waters flow...
Peter Tosh a.k.a. The Bush Doctor
De acentuar que ao contrário de Bob Marley, este recusou "ocidentalizar" a sua música porque não queria ter de viver naquilo que ele chamava a "Babilónia"...
Já que falamos dessa grande lenda que é o Imortal Bob Marley e do seu tipo de música, o Reggae, quero também deixar uma nota aos Terrakota. Embora não se limitem a tocar este género de música (misturam sons de asiáticos, latinos, africanos, etc) fazem canções carregadas de boas mensagens, de pensamentos positivos, de descontentamentos e injustiças também.
Espero que o Grande Administrador não considere isto como publicidade barata, é apenas um gesto de carinho por um grupo português que, na minha opinião, merece-o.