Escuchar una banda
como McCarthy es como un viaje en el tiempo. En otro lugar hablé de Gang of
Four y su tema “Anthrax”; una crítica a la comercialización del amor y su
mercancía en el capitalismo. Este otro tema de McCarthy sigue esa misma senda,
lo que parece un lugar común de cierto post-punk o pop políticamente
comprometido. “Chico conoce a chica, ¿y qué?” se preguntan los ingleses. Hasta
el primer ministro británico hace su aparición aquí.
Aunque el sonido de
esta banda de sólo tres álbumes quede encasillado en un momento muy concreto
(lo que los angloamericanos se refieren, un tanto despectivamente, como
“dated”), lo cierto es que para este escuchador tanto el contenido como su
forma mantienen de sobra el pulso. Es
más, resultan imperecederos estandartes de un pop político que ya no se
encuentra o no se practica.
Lyrics:
The day I met you
The sun began to shine
The world turned for the first time
When I made you mine
Oh the busy BPM (British Prime Minister)
Smiled for a while
When I made you mine, when I made you mine
Oh there's nothing else but love
There's nothing on earth but love
It's something so special when
A boy meets a girl
On whole of the earth there's nothing else but love
It's something so special when
A boy meets a girl
Oh fix me a stiff little drink
Oh fetch me a stiff little revolver
My love's gone away for good
And there's nothing on earth but love
There's nothing on earth but love
The day you left me my world fell apart
The sun ceased to shine
That day you broke my heart
And London fell down into the Thames
When you broke my heart, when you broke my heart
Oh there's nothing else but love
There's nothing on earth but love
It's something so special when
A girl leaves a boy
On whole of the earth there's nothing else but love
It's something so special when
A girl meets a boy"
So wrote a songwriter hoping to sell
A tissue of lies to the record label
"Oh all the old clichés they'll never mind
I'll stab their emotions for the hundredth time"
Oh there's quite enough romance
Peddled around these days
Without you adding to it
Oh don't make it worse
On the whole of the earth there's something else but love
A boy meets a girl, so what?
Boy meets girl, so what?
Oh why not put your brain into gear
And weep about something other than love?
A boy meets a girl, so what?
A boy meets a girl, so what?
A boy meets a girl, so what?
Oh why not put your brain into gear
And weep about something other than love?
A boy meets a girl, so what?
A boy meets a girl, so what?
A boy meets a girl, so what?
The sun began to shine
The world turned for the first time
When I made you mine
Oh the busy BPM (British Prime Minister)
Smiled for a while
When I made you mine, when I made you mine
Oh there's nothing else but love
There's nothing on earth but love
It's something so special when
A boy meets a girl
On whole of the earth there's nothing else but love
It's something so special when
A boy meets a girl
Oh fix me a stiff little drink
Oh fetch me a stiff little revolver
My love's gone away for good
And there's nothing on earth but love
There's nothing on earth but love
The day you left me my world fell apart
The sun ceased to shine
That day you broke my heart
And London fell down into the Thames
When you broke my heart, when you broke my heart
Oh there's nothing else but love
There's nothing on earth but love
It's something so special when
A girl leaves a boy
On whole of the earth there's nothing else but love
It's something so special when
A girl meets a boy"
So wrote a songwriter hoping to sell
A tissue of lies to the record label
"Oh all the old clichés they'll never mind
I'll stab their emotions for the hundredth time"
Oh there's quite enough romance
Peddled around these days
Without you adding to it
Oh don't make it worse
On the whole of the earth there's something else but love
A boy meets a girl, so what?
Boy meets girl, so what?
Oh why not put your brain into gear
And weep about something other than love?
A boy meets a girl, so what?
A boy meets a girl, so what?
A boy meets a girl, so what?
Oh why not put your brain into gear
And weep about something other than love?
A boy meets a girl, so what?
A boy meets a girl, so what?
A boy meets a girl, so what?