Back 2 Good

Más Matchbox 20, más música:

It's nothing, It's so normal
You just stand there
I could say so much,
But I don't go there cuz I don't want to
I was thinking if you were lonely
Maybe we could leave here and no one would know
At least not to the point that we would think so.

Everyone here, knows everyone here is thinking about somebody else
It's best if we all keep it under our heads
I couldn't tell, if anyone here was feeling the way I do,
But I'm lonely now, and I don't know how
To get it back to good.

This don't mean that, you own me
This ain't no good, in fact it's phony as hell
But things worked out just like you wanted too
If you see me out you don't know me
Try to turn your head, try to give me some room
To figure out just what I'm going to do.

And everyone here, hates everyone here for doing just like they do
It's best if we all keep this quiet instead
And I couldn't tell, why everyone here was doing me like they do
But I'm sorry now, and I don't know how
To get it back to good.

Everyone here, is wondering what it's like to be with somebody else
Everyone here's to blame
Everyone here gets caught up in the pleasure of the pain
Everyone here hides shades of shame
But looking inside we're the same, we're the same
And we're all grown now,
But we don't know how
To get it back to good.

Everyone here
Knows everyone here is thinking 'bout somebody else
It's best if we all keep this under our heads
I couldn't tell
If anyone here was feeling the way I do
But it's over now,
And I don't know how,
It's over now,
There's no getting back to good.

Matchbox Twenty

Hang

Esta balada es la pista final del exitoso primer álbum de la banda de rock alternativo Matchbox Twenty que lleva por nombre "Yourself or Someone Like You" (Tu mismo o alguien como tú). Disco que trata temas relacionados con la soledad, el abuso psicológico, la humillación y la ira pero con un sonido melodioso y profundas e impactantes vocales y que cierra con broche de oro en esta canción donde una guitarra acústica se una la voz de Rob Thomas para interpretar la última pieza: Hang.

She grabs her magazines
she packs her things and she goes
she leaves the pictures hanging on the wall
she burns all her notes and she knows
she's been here too few years
to feel this old.

He smokes his cigarette
he stays outside 'til it's gone
if anybody ever had a heart,
he wouldn't be alone, he knows
she's been here too few years to be gone.

And we always say
it would be good to go away, someday
but if there's nothing there to make things change
if it's the same for you I'll just hang.

The trouble understand
is she got reasons he don't
funny how he couldn't see at all
'til she grabbed up her coat, and she goes
she's been here too few years
to take it all in stride
But still it's much too long
to let her go (you let her go)

And we always say
it would be good to go away, someday
but if there's nothing there to make things change
if it's the same for you I'll just hang
the same for you I'll always hang
well I always say
it would be good to go away
but if things don't work out like we think
and there's nothing there to ease this ache
but if there's nothing there to make things change
if it's the same for you I'll just hang.

Matchbox Twenty

Black Balloon

Esta canción, según el vocalista de The goo goo dolls, es sobre una mujer adicta a la heroína y de cómo su pareja trata desesperadamente de salvarla, lo cual ha llevado a especular que se trata de la esposa del bajita de la banda (Robby Takac) quien murió por una sobredosis de heroína.



Baby's black balloon makes her fly
I almost fell into that hole in your life
And you're not thinking about tomorrow
'Cause you were the same as me
But on your knees

A thousand other boys could never reach you
How could I have been the one
I saw the world spin beneath you
And scatter like ice from the spoon
That was your womb

Comin' down the world turned over
And angels fall without you there
And I go on as you get colder
Or are you someone's prayer

You know the lies they always told you
And the love you never knew
What's the things they never showed you
That swallowed the light from the sun
Inside your room

Comin' down the world turned over
And angels fall without you there
And I go on as you get colder
Or are you someone's prayer

And there's no time left for losin'
When you stand they fall

Comin' down the world turned over
And angels fall without you there
And I go on as you get colder

All because I'm
Comin' down the years turn over
And angels fall without you there
And I'll go and lead you home and
All because I'm
All because I'm
And I'll become
What you became to me

Goo Goo Dolls

How to Save a Life

Esta canción la escuché por primera vez hace muy poco tiempo y es de esas canciones que desde la primera vez que las escuchas te gustan y no puedes sacar de tu mente, se llama How to say a life y es interpretada por The fray:

Step one you say we need to talk
He walks you say sit down it's just talk
He smiles politely back at you
You stare politely right on through
Some sort of window to your right
As he goes left and you stay right
Between the lines of fear and blame
And you begin to wonder why you came.

Where did I go wrong? I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life.

Let him know that you know best
Cause after all you do know best
Try to slip past his defense
Without granting innocence
Lay down a list of what is wrong
The things you've told him all along
pray to God he hears you
And prey to god he hears you.

And where did I go wrong? I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life.

As he begins to raise his voice
You lower yours, grant him one last choice
Drive until you lose the road
Or break with the ones you've followed
He will do one of two things
He will admit to everything
Or he'll say he's just not the same
And you'll begin to wonder why you came.

Where did I go wrong? I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life
How to save a life.

Where did I go wrong? I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life
How to save a life.

Traducción:

Paso uno dices: Necesitamos hablar
Él camina y dices siéntate es sólo una conversación
Él te sonríe amablemente
Lo miras amablemente
Hay una especie de ventana a tu derecha
Y mientras él va hacia la izquierda tu permaneces a la derecha
Entre las líneas del miedo y la culpa
Y empiezas a preguntarte por qué has venido.

¿Donde me equivoqué?, Perdí a un amigo
En algún lugar de la amargura
Y podría haberme quedado contigo la noche entera
Si hubiera sabido como salvar una vida.

Le haces saber que tienes mas experiencia
Porque después de todo la tienes
Tratas de atravesar su defensa
Sin admitir inocencia
Dejas caer una lista de las cosas que están mal
Las cosas que siempre le dijiste
Le oras a Dios para que te escuche
Y persigues a Dios para que él te oiga.

¿Donde me equivoqué?, Perdí a un amigo
En algún lugar de la amargura
Y podría haberme quedado contigo la noche entera
Si hubiera sabido como salvar una vida.

Mientras el comienza a alzar su voz
Tú bajas la tuya, le concedes una última opción
Sigue hasta que pierdas el camino
O termina con aquellos a los que has seguido
Él hará una de las dos cosas
Admitirá todo
O sólo dirá que ya no es el mismo
Y preguntarás a preguntar por qué has venido.

¿Donde me equivoqué?, Perdí a un amigo
En algún lugar de la amargura
Y podría haberme quedado contigo la noche entera
Si hubiera sabido como salvar una vida
Si hubiera sabido como salvar una vida.

The Fray