Imogen Heap - Last Night Of An Empire

A Imogen Heap é uma cantora britânica que me acompanha desde os meus 17 anos. Descobri-a através de um filme genial chamado Garden State, quando ainda fazia parte da banda Frou Frou. A sua voz pode não ter um alcance brutal. Parece-se quase com um suspiro. No entanto a sua genialidade reside na forma como a usa, aliada aos efeitos eletrónicos, para criar algumas melodias completamente à parte do que por agora se faz. 

Há poucos dias lançou este novo single, que não podia descrever melhor o que se sente pelo Mundo...a subtileza e jogo de palavras deixa sempre espaço para interpretação, mas a meu ver, é sobre a loucura dos tempos que fala. Deixo aqui a sugestão:

One down, two to go

They multiply on impact for the show

But we didn't switch off

So freedom took a long sad bow for us

Dropped and hung behind the curtain

Red as the operating rooms worsen

Sense of wrong, doom scroll on

To less important ills

Why aren't we running for the hills? Oh

Or hunting for the kill? Oh

Dance like you're on fire

Oh, go crazy on yourself

Your last rites sung by the choir

You can't control this anyway

Dance like you're on fire

And oh, you might as well

The last night of an empire

In the light of no truth

As sure as sea levels are rising

In the spin of breaking news

You droppеd your confidence in happiness (and your innocеnce)

This data indignity

That hoodwinked you for a great awakening

Meanwhile everything you ever cared about

Got hot-swapped out for someone else's twisted dream

We should be running for the hills, oh

Cause no one's got the will anymore

I haven't got the will (Click. Buy. Uh!)

Dance like you're on fire

Oh, go crazy on yourself

Your last rites sung by the choir

You can't control this anyway

Dance like you're on fire

And oh, you might as well

The last night of an empire

So, it's come to this?

We're in the biz

A systemic hysteric's normalizing disbelief

Temper, temper hate thy neighbor, that is... unless you agree

So, it's come to this?

We're in the biz

A systemic hysteric's normalizing disbelief

Temper, temper hate thy neighbor, that is... unless you agree

Slam! (Slam!) Pow! Bang! (Bang!)

Whack! KaBoom! (Boom!) KaPow! Bam! (Bam!)

Crack! What the...?

Slam! (Slam!) Pow! Bang! (Bang!)

(Just go and switch another episode on)

(Just go and switch another episode on)

Whack! KaBoom! (Boom!) KaPow! Bam! (Bam!)

(Just go and switch another episode on)

(Just go and switch another episode on)

What the...?