Wish you were here

I'm posting this kinda old illustration, as a tribute to a beloved relative who left us two weeks ago.

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Rescato una ilustración de hace algún tiempo, para homenajear a una persona muy querida que nos dejó hace dos semanas. 

So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell,
blue skies from pain.
Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?
And did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts? 
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?
How I wish, how I wish you were here.
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year,
Running over the same old ground. 
What have you found? The same old fears.
Wish you were here. 

Wish you were here

Lucy in the sky with diamonds

Another illustrated song:

Otra canción ilustrada:

Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Picture yourself in a boat on a river, 
With tangerine trees and marmalade skies 
Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly, 
A girl with kaleidoscope eyes. 

Cellophane flowers of yellow and green, 
Towering over your head. 
Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes, 
And she's gone. 

Lucy in the sky with diamonds 
Ahh... 


Follow her down to a bridge by a fountain 
Where rocking horse people eat marshmellow pies, 
Everyone smiles as you drift past the flowers, 
That grow so incredibly high. 

Newspaper taxis appear on the shore, 
Waiting to take you away. 
Climb in the back with your head in the clouds, 
And you're gone. 

Picture yourself on a train in a station, 
With plasticine porters with looking glass ties, 
Suddenly someone is there at the turnstyle, 
The girl with the kaleidoscope eyes. 

Today's music:

The Beatles

Sunday morning

Another illustrated song:

Otra canción ilustrada:

Sunday morning

Sunday morning, praise the dawning
It's just a restless feeling by my side
Early dawning, Sunday morning
It's just the wasted years so close behind

Watch out, the world's behind you
There's always someone
around you who will call
It's nothing at all

Sunday morning and I'm falling
I've got a feeling I don't want to know
Early dawning, Sunday morning
It's all the streets youFind more similar lyricscrossed, not so long ago

Watch out, the world's behind you
There's always someone
around you who will call
It's nothing at all

Watch out, the world's behind you
There's always someone
around you who will call
It's nothing at all

Sunday morning

Today's music:

Velvet Underground

Thirteen

Another illustrated song:

Otra canción ilustrada:

Thirteen 

Won't you let me walk you home from school 
Won't you let me meet you at the pool 
Maybe Friday I can 
get tickets for the dance 
and I'll take you 
Won't you tell your dad, "Get off my back" 
Tell him what we said 'bout 'Paint It Black' 
Rock 'n Roll is here to stay 
Come inside where it's okay 
And I'll shake you. 
Won't you tell me what you're thinking of 
Would you be an outlaw for my love 
If it's so, well, let me know 
If it's "no", well, I can go 
I won't make you

Today's music:

Big Star

Don't wanna know if you are lonely

Another illustrated song:

Otra canción ilustrada:

I don't wanna know if you are lonely

I'm curious to know exactly how you are
I keep my distance but that distance is too far
It reassures me just to know that you're okay
But I don't want you to go on needing me this way

And I don't want to know if you are lonely
Don't want to know if you are less than lonely
Don't want to know if you are lonely
Don't want to know, don't want to know

The day you left me, left me feeling oh so bad
Still I'm not sure about all the doubts we had
From the beginning we both knew it wouldn't last
Decisions have been made the die has been cast

The phone is ringing and the clock says four A.M.
If it's your friends, well I don't want to hear from them
Please leave your number and a message at the tone
Or you can just go on and leave me alone

Today's music:

Hüsker Dü

Love will tear us apart

We all have embedded songs within; songs that have changed you and which are keepers of riddles from the past; or songs which remind you you're still standing and dancing. My list is rather long, so I have started to draw them, although I cannot guarantee to accomplish drawing them all. But I hope some of them will make a nice calendar for next year.

Here's the first one.

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Todos tenemos canciones incrustadas dentro; canciones que te trasmutan y que guardan los enigmas del pasado o canciones que te recuerdan que todavía estás en pie y bailando. Mi lista es larga, así que me he puesto a dibujarla, aunque no garantizo que pueda con todas. Pero espero que algunos de estas ilustraciones hagan un bonito calendario para el año que viene.

Aquí, la primera.

Love will tear us apart
When routine bites hard,
And ambitions are low,
And resentment rides high,
But emotions won't grow,
And we're changing our ways,
Taking different roads.

Then love, love will tear us apart again.
Love, love will tear us apart again.

Why is the bedroom so cold?
You've turned away on your side.
Is my timing that flawed?
Our respect runs so dry.
Yet there's still this appeal
That we've kept through our lives.

But love, love will tear us apart again.
Love, love will tear us apart again.

You cry out in your sleep,
All my failings exposed.
And there's a taste in my mouth,
As desperation takes hold.
Just that something so good
Just can't function no more.

But love, love will tear us apart again.
Love, love will tear us apart again.
Love, love will tear us apart again.
Love, love will tear us apart again.

Today's music:

Joy Division