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¡Bueno, esto es brutal!... Me apetece ahora dedicarle una de mis entradas al gran Richard Thompson, que, por alguna razón, me ha estado inspirando mucho últimamente. No es que no lo haya hecho, ya desde hace años, bastante a menudo; pero estos días atrás el genio de la eléctrica (sí, y de la acústica, claro) me ha tenido enganchado...
Ésta se la dedicó a Margaret Thatcher, que, indudablemente, fue una mujer muy consecuente y que siempre supo lo que hacía; pero la canción de Thompson reflexiona, con toda la rabia, la clarividencia y el derecho del mundo, en torno a las consecuencias de tantas "políticas acertadas y necesarias"... ¡Salvando las distancias, quede claro!... Primero, la letra:
Mother Knows Best (Richard Thompson)
So you think you know how to wipe your own nose
So you think you know how to button your clothes
You don't know a shit, if you hadn't already guessed
you're just a bump on the log of life, 'cos Mother knows best
She tells everybody she was born in a ditch
She backcombs her hair till she looks like a witch
Wolves in her train, serpents suckle at her breast
Don't forget to wash behind your ears, 'cos Mother knows best
Oh you lost your job, well ain't that a shame
You got nobody but yourself to blame
You deserve everything you get for such carelessness
And don't eat your peas off the knife, 'cos Mother knows best
So your baby's hungry, so your baby's sick
Don't make babies, that'll do the trick
Put another string of barbed wire in your little love nest
It's better than a cardboard box, 'cos Mother knows best
She got a zombie army to serve her well
She got a thousand bloodhounds from the gates of hell
she got a hundred black horses with sulphur and coal on their breath
And she rides the unbelievers down, Mother knows best
She says, "bring me your first-born and I'll suck their blood
Bring me your poor, I can trample in the mud
Bring me your visionaries, I can put out their eyes
Bring me your scholars, I'll have them all lobotomized
´Cause Mother knows best"
Y ahora, la canción...
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