Esta banda es relativamente nueva. Su primer disco, The invitation, (en el que podemos encontrar esta melodía), vio la luz en 2004. La podéis encontrar en multitud de bandas sonoras de series: Anatomía de Grey, Los 4400, Urgencias, … Ahora está en la banda sonora de mi vida

Letra:

Come on, come on
Put your hands into the fire
Explain, explain
As I turn and meet the power
This time, this time
Turning white and senses dire
Pull up, pull up
From one extreme to another

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From the summer to the spring
From the mountain to the air
From Samaritan to sin
And it’s waiting on the end

Come on, come on
Put your hands into the fire
Explain, explain
As I turn and meet the power
This time, this time
Turning white and sense dire
Pull up, pull up
From one extreme to another

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Come on, come on
Put your hands into the fire
Come on, come on

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Letra:

I play a good game,
But not good as you
I can be a little cold, but you can be so cruel
I’m not made of brick, I’m not made of stone
But I had you fooled enough
To take me on
If love was a war, it’s you who has won
While I was confessing it, you held your tongue
Now the damage is done…

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Well there’s blood in these veins
And I cry when in pain
I’m only human on the inside
And if looks can deceive
Make it hard to believe
I’m only human on the inside

I thought you’d come through,
I thought you’d come clean
You were the best thing I should never have seen
But you go to extremes, you push me too far
Then you keep going ’til you break my heart
Yeah, you break my heart
See I bleed and I bruise, oh, but what’s it to you
I’m only human on the inside
And if looks could deceive,
Make it hard to believe
I’m only human on the inside
I crash and I burn, maybe some day you’ll learn
I’m only human on the inside
I stumble and fall, baby, under it all
I’m only human on the inside

And the damage is done…

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I crash and I burn, maybe some day you’ll learn
I stumble and fall, baby, I do it all
I’m only human on the inside

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Letra:

Una vez, solamente una vez, ya lo ves
Y no fueron mis pies
Que fueron mis manos las que se enredaron una vez.
Solamente una vez
Y por más que lo pienso siempre noto el peso.
Volvería a caer, volvería a saber
Que aunque tú me pierdas
Yo siempre me encuentro contigo.
Cuando vienes vas, cuando vas no estás
Y yo vivo enganchá a los pasos que das.

Yo no quise correr, solamente una vez
Me mandaron los pies.

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¿Dónde vas tan solo y tan tarde?
Que no te acuerdas de nadie
Cuando va cerrao, solito por la calle
¿Dónde vas? ¿Dónde vas?

Una vez, solamente una vez, ya lo ves
Una vez te perdí, una vez te seguí
Una vez, y dos, y tres
Una vez me enamoré del lado oscuro
De lo más chungo
Di tantas vueltas
Que perdí el rumbo.

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¿Dónde vas tan sola y tan tarde?
Que olvidé los detalles
Porque voy cerrá, solita por la calle.

Solita por la calle, por la calle desidia
Que es dónde se pierden los niñas que van de excursión.

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No os puedo poner el videoclip original aquí, porque no he podido encontrar uno en youtube que permitiese la inserción en páginas externas (¡cuestión que no entiendo!), así que os dejo con éste:

Letra:

I was bruised and battered, I couldn’t tell what I felt.
I was unrecognizable to myself.
I saw my reflection in a window, I didn’t know my own face.
Oh brother are you gonna leave me wastin’ away
On the Streets of Philadelphia.

I walked the avenue, ’til my legs felt like stone,
I heard the voices of friends vanished and gone,
At night I could hear the blood in my veins,
Just as black and whispering as the rain,
On the Streets of Philadelphia.

Ain’t no angel gonna greet me.
It’s just you and I my friend.
My clothes don’t fit me no more,
I walked a thousand miles
Just to slip this skin.

The night has fallen, I’m lyin’ awake,
I can feel myself fading away,
So receive me brother with your faithless kiss,
Or will we leave each other alone like this
On the Streets of Philadelphia

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¿Has escuchado How Far We’ve Come de Matchbox Twenty?. Es la canción que me pone las pilas todos los días a las horas intempestivas a las que me levanto. Prueba, ya verás cómo funciona

Pues tendré que probar… porque soy una dormilona de órdago y siempre llego tarde a trabajar :S

Curiosa la canción. Tiene un ritmo endiablado que te da un subidón… Sin embargo, la letra es catastrofista a más no poder.

Letra:

I’m waking up at the start of the end of the world,
but its feeling just like every morning before,
now I wonder what my life is going to mean if its gone,
the cars are moving like a half a mile an hour if that
I started staring at the passengers waving goodbye
can you tell me what was ever really special about me all this time

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but I believe the world is burning to the ground
oh well I guess we’re gonna find out
let’s see how far we’ve come
let’s see how far we’ve come

Well I, believe, its all, coming to an end
oh well, I guess, we’re gonna pretend,
let’s see how far we’ve come
let’s see how far we’ve come

I think its turning to a crock but I don’t really know
I can’t remember caring for an hour or so
started crying and I couldn’t stop myself
I started running but there was no where to run to
I sat down on the street and took a look at myself
said where you going you know the world is heading for hell
say your goodbyes if you’ve got someone you can say goodbye to

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Its gone gone baby its all gone
there is no one on the corner and there’s no one at home
it was cool cool, it was just all cool
now it’s over for me and it’s over for you
well its gone gone baby its all gone
there is no one on the corner and there’s no one at home
well it was cool cool, it was just all cool
now it’s over for me and it’s over for you

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Por cierto, viendo el vídeo, cada vez me dan más ganas de escaparme al concierto que darán en Barcelona el 6 de septiembre o al de Madrid el 7.

Letra:

When you try your best but you don’t succeed
When you get what you want but not what you need
When you feel so tired but you can’t sleep
Stuck in reverse.

And the tears come streaming down your face
When you lose something you can’t replace
When you love someone but it goes to waste
Could it be worse?

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Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you

And high up above or down below
When you’re too in love to let it go
But if you never try you’ll never know
“Just what your worth”

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Tears stream, down on your face
When you lose something you cannot replace
Tears stream down your face and I…

Tears stream, down on your face
I promise you I will learn from my mistakes
Tears stream down your face and I…

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Aquí la versión en la que acompañan a la cantante los protagonistas de la película:

Letra:

It’s not
What you thought
When you first began it
You got
What you want
Now you can hardly stand it though,
By now you know
It’s not going to stop
It’s not going to stop
It’s not going to stop
‘Til you wise up

You’re sure
There’s a cure
And you have finally found it
You think
One drink
Will shrink you ’til you’re underground
And living down
But it’s not going to stop
It’s not going to stop
It’s not going to stop
‘Til you wise up

Prepare a list of what you need
Before you sign away the deed
‘Cause it’s not going to stop
It’s not going to stop
It’s not going to stop
‘Til you wise up
No, it’s not going to stop
‘Til you wise up
No, it’s not going to stop
So just… give up

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Deborah Dyer, la ex-voz del grupo Skunk Anansie, decidió un día aventurarse en solitario como Skin (el nombre viene de skinny, flaca) y en su disco debut (Fleshwounds, 2002) podemos encontrar esta oda llena de fuerza. Una voz peculiar para una cantante peculiar. Que la fidelidad sea con vosotros

Letra:

Faithfulness
Distracts me from my ever changing
Tastefulness
My mouth upon the richest tongues
I run for this
Static at the same time by it all

Common sense
Can slap me in the face
And yet I calm disent
Embarrassed by your obvious
Indifference
Disgusted at the same time by it all
Watching as my ego breaks your fall

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Don’t you know that I’ve
Been running from you heart
And I feel like you’ve been running too

Don’t you know that I’ve
been lying from the start
And I feel like you’ve been lying too.

Leave you now
Can’t convince myself
That you’re the one somehow
To free me from this smile
I call my loneliness
Stuck inside this need to feel complete
Now I’ve left you standing on your feet

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Faithfulness is just a little rule
We break
Still pretending lust was just a fool
we faked, we made

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Letra:

So you face it with a smile
There is no need to cry
For a trifle’s more than this

Will you still recall my name
And the month it all began
Will you release me with a kiss

Have I tried to draw the veil
If I have, how could I fail?
Did I fear the consequence

Dazed by carelss words
Cosy in my mind

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I don’t mind
I think so
I will let you go

Now you shaped that liquid wax
Fit it out with crater cracks
Sweet devotion my delight

Oh, you’re such a pretty one
And the naked thrills of flesh and skin
Would tease me through the night
“Now I hate to leave you bare
If you need me I’ll be there
Don’t you ever let me down”

Dazed by careless words
Cosy in my mind

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And I touched your face
Narcotic mind from lazed
Mary-Jane

And I called your name
Like an addicted to cocaine calls for the stuff he’d rather blame

And I touched your face
Narcotic mind from lazed
Mary-Jane

And I called your name
My cocain

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¿Te gustaría pinchar algo de los Cranberries? Por ejemplo Zombie, con el vídeo oficial, que fue un bombazo en el tiempo, diez años ahora y es parte de la banda sonora de nuestra vida, ¿no te parece?.

Una canción protesta de esta banda irlandesa ante el conflicto armado que asolaba su país y que podemos encontrar dentro del disco No Need to Argue (1994). Sin duda, los niños son los más perjudicados de estos enfrentamientos. De hecho, Zombie fue escrita en memoria de dos chicos, Jonathan Ball y Tim Parry, asesinados en un atentado bomba del IRA.

Letra:

Another head hangs lowly
Child is slowly taken
And the violence causes silence
Who are we mistaken?
But you see, it’s not me
It’s not my family
In your head, in your head
They are fightin’!
With their tanks, and their bombs
And their bombs, and their guns
In your head, in your head
They are cryin!

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In your head! In your head!
Zombie! Zombie! Zombie, hey, hey, hey!
What’s in your head, in your head?
Zombie! Zombie! Zombie hey, hey, hey,oh dou, dou…

Another mother’s breaking
Heart is taken over.
When the violence causes silence
We must be mistaken.
It’s the same old theme
Since 1916!
In your head, in your head
They’re still fightin’!
With their tanks, and their bombs
And their bombs, and their guns
In your head, in your head!
They are dyin’!

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