decade

I've got a million things to say but I forgot. I could write a book but I lost my pen. I'd walk the line for you. I'd waste my time for you. He's lonely. He takes a pill. A special affection for you, a new direction for we two. Has the destination disappeared or is it the will to travel? The sky is blue and I am falling. The weather's fine and I am falling. The idea that it's all a capitalist plot, Gorbi siding up to the West spawning so called 'freedom movements' around the globe. I suppose that's one of the attractions, your name and his are the same. I looked up in the sky and I saw Jean Cocteau. MI FACHO FUORI E COSI IL MIO SPIRITO SARA DA TE IN UN MINUTO, said Roberto on the jammed autostrada. I was lamenting the passing of the 80's, the decade I had claimed in a way it was my whole life, until now... so I thought. The bus driver's going down to meet her mate in Napoli. Willy Loman with his flemish Reader's Digest. The older English gent chatting up the younger, first class. And Sashas' new play «How a Being Choose to Become a Woman». They say we're going forward, but all I can say is, "Now that the commies are gone they're after the artist and the gays". The 'environmental president' says "Let's go to Mars". That's pretty good timing. But I think the rest of us should try to keep this planet together. That's pretty good timing.

O belíssimo «Decade» (uma espécie de poema-canção) está incluído no CD «Half Out», gravado em 1991 por Steven Brown. Em 1977, Steven Brown tinha participado em S. Francisco na criação do grupo rock de vanguarda Tuxedomoon. Vive na Europa desde os anos 80 e passou por Portugal por diversas vezes, a última das quais em 2006, com a nova encarnação da sua banda de sempre.