LA LETRA Y LA MÚSICA: The power of love, por Eva Sion
Alguien, no sé quien, quiso hacerme creer
que un sentimiento tan vago e inestable como el amor tenía un poder
sobrehumano…, y yo me lo creí…
Alguien, no recuerdo bien su nombre,
intentó convencerme de que la felicidad llegaba con esa palabra, sin embargo,
jamás sufrí tanto como cuando la invoqué…
Así que decidí distanciarme y estudiarlo
con cierto desapego y, la verdad, no he visto nunca más, ni en otras
situaciones, hacer tanto el tonto a las personas como cuando decían buscarlo,
no he visto gentes tan desdichadas como las que se lamentaban de haberlo
perdido, ni tantos locos como quienes habían hecho de su vida un camino cuya
meta exclusiva se basaba en su búsqueda y encuentro…ni seres tan irreales y tan
faltos de voluntad como quienes presumían de haberlo encontrado…
El poder del amor… ¡ja, ja , ja!...
Sin embargo todo elemento de la creación
parece estar destinado a dar vueltas como muñecos de una noria en torno e eso,
el amor, eso que casi todo ser humano afirma considerar más valioso que el oro.
Yo también creí vislumbrarlo en el
horizonte alguna vez, lo reconozco, pero pronto la realidad me despertó para
demostrarme que tan sólo era un espejismo en el desierto de mi soledad. Y es
que cuando se busca, por todas partes aparecen detalles destinados a nuestro
engaño: unas palabras más amables de lo normal, una sonrisa más gratuita de lo
que nos tenían acostumbrados, una caricia perdida que, por azar, encontró
nuestra ávida piel, un gesto, un suspiro peregrino, un papel perdido, una
lágrima vertida al viento… cualquier pequeña cosa, ya sabéis. Por lo tanto, desde
entonces, ya sólo busco compañía, complicidad, un pequeño afán de compartir
latidos y estremecimientos, es decir, cualquier pequeñez que no me haga sentir
todavía más sola en este planeta indiferente. Pero eso no puedo considerarlo
como poder alguno porque al amanecer llega la resaca y la lengua saborea
todavía el tabaco fumado por otros y en mis dedos se va licuando aún la grasa
de pieles anónimas, mientras que mi corazón sigue sediento y vacío…
Pero, ¿qué sabré yo?... Yo, una pequeña chica de pueblo que llora con
cuatro notas seguidas de una composición de Mozart y se alegra con un
estribillo perdido de Abba o sueña con un atardecer al estilo de Sinatra… Soy
incongruente, lo sé, entonces, ¿cómo puedo comprender en dónde radica ese poder
mágico, esa fuerza irresistible y arrasadora de un sentimiento que tan sólo
tiene cuatro letras?...
En cambio, si nos detenemos a observar los
kilómetros y kilómetros de líneas de tinta que han sido disipados en escribir
los océanos de palabras huecas,
artificiosas, teatrales y amaneradas necesarias para componer las
gazmoñas oraciones a este dios de la desesperación, a veces me entra la
inquietud y la duda, y me pregunto si no seré yo el bicho raro, la persona
equivocada, la gota a contracorriente… sin embargo basta con escuchar las
canciones resultantes que han compartido el embotamiento de utilizar hasta la
saciedad el mismo título para darme cuenta que este poderoso sentimiento ha
hecho un flaco favor a la poesía y ha aportado bastante poco al mundo del arte
en proporción a las energías que consume…
¿Qué no me creéis?... Os aportaré unas
pequeñas pruebas y, si por casualidad, alguien puede rebatirme con ejemplos
sublimes que hayan escapado a mi conocimiento, estaré feliz de reconocer mi
error. Como muestra, disfrutemos de los siguientes botones… Y es que hoy me
siento propensa al derroche…
The Everly Brothers grabaron "(You Got) The Power Of
Love ", escrita por Bonnie Bramlett y Joey
Cooper , en Hollywood allá por el 3 de febrero de 1966 y de ella leeremos,
para no agotar demasiado al público con tan magnificente profundidad, simplemente
dos estrofas, pero las cuales nos ayudaran a hacernos una precisa idea:
You got the power
baby to keep me hung uptight
You got the power
girl to make me feel alright
You got the power
baby to make me jump and shake
You got the power
over me, the power that it takes
And when I'm down
and out and blue
And feel too bad
to move
I don't worry if
you come along
And put me in the
groove
And when I need
good lovin'
It's you I'm
thinking of
You got the power
baby
The power of love
¡Sublime!, ¿no?... Perfectamente podría haber sido titulada: “Tú tienes el poder, chica”… ¡Cómo si no
lo supiéramos!...:
Por su parte, Joseph Raymond
"Ray" Conniff, también conocido como "Jay
Raye," el famoso compositor, arreglista y director de la banda estadounidense
Ray Conniff Singers, escribió una canción con este título, cuya letra podréis
seguir en el vídeo, y que nos sorprende con una mezcla entre western e himno
religioso. Disfrutadla:
Joe Simon, por otro lado, no pretende
confundir a nadie con su música mezcla de soul y country y cuyas letras buscan
la verdad en Dios, donde el amor es una fuerza arrasadora que todo lo puede, o
si no, leed, leed:
I'll protect you
from the hooded claw
keep the vampires
from your door
Feels like fire
I'm so in love
with you
Dreams are like
angels
They keep bad at
bay-bad at bay
Love is the light
Scaring darkness
away-yeah
I'm so in love with you
I'm so in love with you
Purge the soul
Make love your
goal
the power of love
A force from above
Cleaning my soul
Flame on burn
desire
Love with tongues
of fire
Purge the soul
Make love your goal …
¿No resulta un tanto apocalíptico con los
vampiros, las lenguas de fuego, los ángeles y eso de salvar el alma?, Pero,
bueno, ese era el trabajo del bueno de Joe Simon:
En 1974 nos llega otra canción con
idéntico nombre, aunque con diferente intención, compuesta por el músico
norteamericano Barry White e interpretada por su banda The Love Unlimited
Orchestra, con su estilo peculiar que llegaría a tener personalidad propia
dentro del llamado “Sonido Filadelfia” y con una letra escueta y sencilla que
se aparta de las fórmulas rebuscadas anteriores y que, curiosamente, tiene la
capacidad de llegar más profundamente pues, sin grandes pretensiones, tiene sin
embargo más mensaje :
There's a lot of
people in the world today
And it seems to me
like everybody in the world
Is talking about
some kind of power
They talk about black power, brown power
White power and green power
But there's a power that I'll talk about
It's love power and the power of love
They talk about black power, brown power
White power and green power
But there's a power that I'll talk about
It's love power and the power of love
Poco tiempo después, el teclista de la
banda inglesa Spooky Tooth, Gary Wright, escribió este tema para su álbum en
solitario “The Dream Weaver” (El tejedor
de sueños), cuya letra tampoco se
pasó en calidad ni virtuosismo, como podréis comprobar:
I can see by the
look in your face
That you're
thinkin' of me
And the words that
you say
It'll play you a
sweet melody
Power of love
flowing in me
Power of love
glowing in me
I can hear what
you tell me
You tell me your
love isn't real
But it can't be
until you realize
It's something you
feel
Power of love
flowing in me
Power of love
glowing in me
I can feel
somethings happening inside me
I cannot describe
And I don't know,
it will come and go
I'm too high to
drive
Power of love
flowing in me
Power of love
glowing in me
“The
power of love”
fue así mismo el título de una canción escrita por Gary Nicholson y Don Cook y
grabada por el cantante de música country Charley Pride en 1984, llegando a
ocupara el Top Ten de las listas americanas. Su letra parece haber sido creada
para personas tan escépticas como yo en los temas sentimentales… pero sin
llegar a convencerme: “El amor no tenía
mucho con que trabajar cuando se apoderó de mí, todavía recuperándome de mi
última vez e esforzándome para aprender a vivir sin él, justo cuando pensé que
todos mis sentimientos habían muerto algo me pasó que no pude negar…”:
Love didn't have
much to work with
When it got a hold of me
Still recovering from my last time out
Doing my best to learn to live without it
Just when I thought all my feelings had died
Something came over me that can't be denied
Don't under estimate the power of love
You're never down so low that it can't lift you up
Don't under estimate what it can do
I'm living proof of the power of love.
It didn't hit me like lightening
From a dark and stormy sky
It came on more like a peaceful wind
It made me feel like trying again
I didn't realize how good it could be
Until love worked its magic on me.
Don't under estimate the power of love
You're never down so low that it can't lift you up
Don't under estimate what it can do
I'm living proof of the power of love.
Don't under estimate the power of love
You're never down so low that it can't lift you up
Don't under estimate what it can do
I'm living proof of the power of love.
When it got a hold of me
Still recovering from my last time out
Doing my best to learn to live without it
Just when I thought all my feelings had died
Something came over me that can't be denied
Don't under estimate the power of love
You're never down so low that it can't lift you up
Don't under estimate what it can do
I'm living proof of the power of love.
It didn't hit me like lightening
From a dark and stormy sky
It came on more like a peaceful wind
It made me feel like trying again
I didn't realize how good it could be
Until love worked its magic on me.
Don't under estimate the power of love
You're never down so low that it can't lift you up
Don't under estimate what it can do
I'm living proof of the power of love.
Don't under estimate the power of love
You're never down so low that it can't lift you up
Don't under estimate what it can do
I'm living proof of the power of love.
También por 1984, la banda inglesa Frankie
Goes to Hollywood lanzó una canción
escrita por Holly Johnson, Peter Gill, Marcos O’Toole y Brian Nash, pero
que, sospechosamente, nos recuerda bastante a la canción anteriormente
escuchada de Joe Simon, siendo publicada como tercer single de su álbum “Welcome to the Pleasuredome”, llegando
al número uno de las listas inglesas, pero no os hagáis ilusiones…:
Feels like fire
I'm so in love with you
Dreams are like angels
They keep bad at bay-bad at bay
Love is the light
Scaring darkness away-yeah
I'm so in love with you
Purge the soul
Make love your goal
The power of love
A force from above
Cleaning my soul
Flame on burn desire
Love with tongues of fire
Purge the soul
Make love your goal
I'll protect you from the hooded claw
Keep the vampires from your door
When the chips are down I'll be around
With my undying, death-defying
Love for you
Envy will hurt itself
Let yourself be beautiful
Sparkling love, flowers
And pearls and pretty girls
Love is like an energy
Rushin' rushin' inside of me
This time we go sublime
Lovers entwine-divine divine
Love is danger, love is pleasure
Love is pure-the only treasure
I'm so in love with you
Purge the soul
Make love your goal
The power of love
A force from above
Cleaning my soul
The power of love
A force from above
A sky-scraping dove
Flame on burn desire
Love with tongues of fire
Purge the soul
Make love your goal
I'll protect you from the hooded claw
Keep the vampires from your door
I'm so in love with you
Dreams are like angels
They keep bad at bay-bad at bay
Love is the light
Scaring darkness away-yeah
I'm so in love with you
Purge the soul
Make love your goal
The power of love
A force from above
Cleaning my soul
Flame on burn desire
Love with tongues of fire
Purge the soul
Make love your goal
I'll protect you from the hooded claw
Keep the vampires from your door
When the chips are down I'll be around
With my undying, death-defying
Love for you
Envy will hurt itself
Let yourself be beautiful
Sparkling love, flowers
And pearls and pretty girls
Love is like an energy
Rushin' rushin' inside of me
This time we go sublime
Lovers entwine-divine divine
Love is danger, love is pleasure
Love is pure-the only treasure
I'm so in love with you
Purge the soul
Make love your goal
The power of love
A force from above
Cleaning my soul
The power of love
A force from above
A sky-scraping dove
Flame on burn desire
Love with tongues of fire
Purge the soul
Make love your goal
I'll protect you from the hooded claw
Keep the vampires from your door
Sin embargo, llegó la banda de rock
inglesa “10cc” y nos propuso una de las canciones con ese título más frescas e
interesantes hasta el momento, con frases tan logradas como “si tu padre nos encuentra solos, a ti te
cambiara la mente y a mí me reorganizará mis huesos”, “porque el poder del amor
es como una ola capaz de elevarte y golpearte contra el piso y que te obliga a
hacer las cosas que nunca antes has
hecho”, o “no te imagines que
eres libre, no hay escapatoria de esa realidad que está bajo el hechizo, bajo
el poder del amor”…:
Momma don't mind,
cause your momma don't know
But if your poppa finds out that we're all alone
He's gonna change your mind and rearrange my bones
Cause the power of love is like a tidal wave
It can pick you up and knock you on the floor
Make you do the things you never done before
Don't imagine that you're free
There's no escaping from reality
You're under the spell, under the power of love
Turn the lights down low (lights down low)
And the hi fi high (hi fi high)
Put the lock on the door, pull the curtains too
Don't want the world to know, I'm getting close to you
Well you never see it (never see it)
But you sure can feel it (sure can feel it)
And if you get the taste, you get the hunger pains
You'll be hooked for life, never be the same
Everybody's gonna see
There's no escaping from the mystery
You're under the spell, under the power of love
The power of love (power of love)
The power of love (power of love)
The power of love (power of love)
So you're sitting in a restaurant
And you feel so nonchalant
When the waiter says "what'll it be"
You start to speak, then suddenly
A pretty girl walks 'cross the floor
You ain't thinking 'bout food - no more
'Cause the power of love is like a tidal wave
It can pick you up and knock you on the floor
Make you do the things you never done before
Don't imagine that you're free
There's no escaping from reality
You're under the spell, under the power of love
The power of love (power of love)
The power of love (power of love)
The power of love (power of love)
But if your poppa finds out that we're all alone
He's gonna change your mind and rearrange my bones
Cause the power of love is like a tidal wave
It can pick you up and knock you on the floor
Make you do the things you never done before
Don't imagine that you're free
There's no escaping from reality
You're under the spell, under the power of love
Turn the lights down low (lights down low)
And the hi fi high (hi fi high)
Put the lock on the door, pull the curtains too
Don't want the world to know, I'm getting close to you
Well you never see it (never see it)
But you sure can feel it (sure can feel it)
And if you get the taste, you get the hunger pains
You'll be hooked for life, never be the same
Everybody's gonna see
There's no escaping from the mystery
You're under the spell, under the power of love
The power of love (power of love)
The power of love (power of love)
The power of love (power of love)
So you're sitting in a restaurant
And you feel so nonchalant
When the waiter says "what'll it be"
You start to speak, then suddenly
A pretty girl walks 'cross the floor
You ain't thinking 'bout food - no more
'Cause the power of love is like a tidal wave
It can pick you up and knock you on the floor
Make you do the things you never done before
Don't imagine that you're free
There's no escaping from reality
You're under the spell, under the power of love
The power of love (power of love)
The power of love (power of love)
The power of love (power of love)
En 1985 se lanzó una de las versiones más
conocidas gracias a que fue el tema central de la película “Regreso al futuro”, un sigle escrito por Huey Lewis and the News, llegando al número uno en
USA y al Top Ten en el Reino Unido y siendo nominada a un Oscar a la Mejor
Canción:
The power of love
is a curious thing
Make a one man weep, make another man sing
Change a hawk to a little white dove
More than a feeling, that's the power of love
Tougher than diamonds, rich like cream
Stronger and harder than a bad girl's dream
Make a bad one good, make a wrong one right
Power of love will keep you home at night
You don't need money, don't take fame
Don't need no credit card to ride this train
It's strong and it's sudden and it's cruel sometimes
But it might just save your life
That's the power of love, that's the power of love
First time you feel it, it might make you sad
Next time you feel it, it might make you mad
But do be glad baby when you've found
That's the power makes the world go 'round
And it don't take money, don't take fame
Don't need no credit card to ride this train
It's strong and it's sudden, it can be cruel sometimes
But it might just save your life
They say that all in love is fair
Yeah, but you don't care
But you know what to do
When it gets hold of you
And with a little help from above
You feel the power of love
You feel the power of love
ue Can you feel it?
Hmmm
It don't take money and it don't take fame
Don't need no credit card to ride this train
Tougher than diamonds and stronger than steel
You won't feel nothin' till you feel
You feel the power, just feel the power of love
That's the power, that's the power of love
You feel the power of love
You feel the power of love
Feel the power of love
Make a one man weep, make another man sing
Change a hawk to a little white dove
More than a feeling, that's the power of love
Tougher than diamonds, rich like cream
Stronger and harder than a bad girl's dream
Make a bad one good, make a wrong one right
Power of love will keep you home at night
You don't need money, don't take fame
Don't need no credit card to ride this train
It's strong and it's sudden and it's cruel sometimes
But it might just save your life
That's the power of love, that's the power of love
First time you feel it, it might make you sad
Next time you feel it, it might make you mad
But do be glad baby when you've found
That's the power makes the world go 'round
And it don't take money, don't take fame
Don't need no credit card to ride this train
It's strong and it's sudden, it can be cruel sometimes
But it might just save your life
They say that all in love is fair
Yeah, but you don't care
But you know what to do
When it gets hold of you
And with a little help from above
You feel the power of love
You feel the power of love
ue Can you feel it?
Hmmm
It don't take money and it don't take fame
Don't need no credit card to ride this train
Tougher than diamonds and stronger than steel
You won't feel nothin' till you feel
You feel the power, just feel the power of love
That's the power, that's the power of love
You feel the power of love
You feel the power of love
Feel the power of love
Pero tampoco aportaba demasiado, ¿verdad?:
Y así llegamos al final, sin olvidar que
los ejemplos no sólo de canciones de amor, sino en exclusiva con la frase “The
power of love” incluida en el título, son casi infinitos, y para este momento
hemos dejado uno de los grandes temas, uno de esos que todo el mundo recuerda
y, sobre todo, porque no nos dejan que nos olvidemos de él gracias a sus
constantes versiones, me refiero a la canción grabada originalmente por
Jennifer Rush en 1984, pero que luego lanzaron a la fama Laura Branigam, Air
Supply y, principalmente, Céline Dion: “Los
susurros en la mañana de amantes durmiendo están rodando como el trueno. Ahora
que miro en tus ojos, me aferro a tu cuerpo y siento cada movimiento que haces.
Tu voz es cálida y tierna. Un amor que no podré olvidar nunca porque yo soy tu
chica y tú eres mi hombre…” ¡Estremecedor!...:
The whispers in
the morning
Of lovers sleeping tight
Are rolling by like thunder now
As I look in your eyes
I hold on to your body
And feel each move you make
Your voice is warm and tender
A love that I could not forsake
'Cause I am your lady
And you are my man
Whenever you reach for me
I'll do all that I can
Even though there may be times
It seems I'm far away
Never wonder where I am
'Cause I am always by your side
'Cause I am your lady
And you are my man
Whenever you reach for me
I'll do all that I can
We're heading for something
Somewhere I've never been
Sometimes I am frightened
But I'm ready to learn
'Bout the power of love
The sound of your heart beating
Made it clear suddenly
The feeling that I can't go on
Is light years away
'Cause I am your lady
And you are my man
Whenever you reach for me
I'm gonna do all that I can
We're heading for something
Somewhere I've never been
Sometimes I am frightened
But I'm ready to learn
'Bout the power of love
Ooh The power of love
The power of love
Of lovers sleeping tight
Are rolling by like thunder now
As I look in your eyes
I hold on to your body
And feel each move you make
Your voice is warm and tender
A love that I could not forsake
'Cause I am your lady
And you are my man
Whenever you reach for me
I'll do all that I can
Even though there may be times
It seems I'm far away
Never wonder where I am
'Cause I am always by your side
'Cause I am your lady
And you are my man
Whenever you reach for me
I'll do all that I can
We're heading for something
Somewhere I've never been
Sometimes I am frightened
But I'm ready to learn
'Bout the power of love
The sound of your heart beating
Made it clear suddenly
The feeling that I can't go on
Is light years away
'Cause I am your lady
And you are my man
Whenever you reach for me
I'm gonna do all that I can
We're heading for something
Somewhere I've never been
Sometimes I am frightened
But I'm ready to learn
'Bout the power of love
Ooh The power of love
The power of love
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