'There is no reason and the truth is plain to see.'

Guinevere Van Seenus for Muse Magazine March 2014 by Erik Madigan Heck

Quali sono le ragioni di un ricordo?
Tutto e nulla ... è sufficiente una sensazione provata.
Eppure, al momento è stata simile ad altre,
provate e subito dimenticate.
E allora?

Perché ricordiamo?
Potrebbe sembrare anche un poco casualmente,
così, tanto per colmare buchi, vuoti.
Non amiamo il nulla, di fatto e il suo vuoto.

Perché si ricorda un colore, un odore e un suono?
Non è vero che una canzone la si ricorda per un'emozione!
Non ricordo la canzone del primo amore e del primo bacio.
Non ricordo, semplicemente. Non so.

Carolyn Murphy - Mario Testino

Soundtrack: Gary Puckett & The Union Gap - Young Girl


Per "Whiter shade of pale" è tutto diverso ..
Infatti, ricordo questa canzone in solitudine.
Una solitudine affascinante e dolcissima,
al punto che è bellissima anche oggi.
E accade ogni volta che ascolto queste note.

We skipped the light fandango
turned cartwheels 'cross the floor
I was feeling kinda seasick
but the crowd called out for more
The room was humming harder
as the ceiling flew away
When we called out for another drink
the waiter brought a tray

And so it was that later
as the miller told his tale
that her face, at first just ghostly,
turned a whiter shade of pale

She said, 'There is no reason
and the truth is plain to see.'
 But I wandered through my playing cards
and would not let her be
one of sixteen vestal virgins
who were leaving for the coast
and although my eyes were open
they might have just as well've been closed.

And so it was that later
as the miller told his tale
that her face, at first just ghostly,
turned a whiter shade of pale

She said, 'I'm home on shore leave,'
though in truth we were at sea
so I took her by the looking glass
and forced her to agree
saying, 'You must be the mermaid
who took Neptune for a ride.'
But she smiled at me so sadly
that my anger straightway died

And so it was that later
as the miller told his tale
that her face, at first just ghostly,
turned a whiter shade of pale

If music be the food of love
then laughter is its queen
and likewise if behind is in front
then dirt in truth is clean
My mouth by then like cardboard
seemed to slip straight through my head
So we crash-dived straightway quickly
and attacked the ocean bed 

And so it was that later
as the miller told his tale
that her face, at first just ghostly,
turned a whiter shade of pale

Mario Testino's Couture

Soundtrack: A Whiter Shade of Pale; the organ part