Há trinta minutos ouvi este tema pela primeira vez.

Nem sequer, até então, conhecia os Black Lab, 

banda Californiana de rock alternativo.

(Grande ignorância minha, uma vez

que os Black Lab foram formados em 1995!)

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Gostei e não resisto a publicar aqui o tema 'This Night'.

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There are things I have done.
There's a place I have gone.
There's a beast and I let it run now it's

running my way.
There are things I regret that you can't

forgive you can't forget.
There's a gift that you sent you sent it my way.

So take this night and wrap it around me like a sheet.
I know I'm not forgiven but I need a place to sleep.
So take this night and lay me down on the street.
I know I'm not forgiven but I hope that I'll be given some peace.
There's a game that I played.
There are rules I had to break.
There's mistakes that I made but I made them my way.
So take this night and wrap it around me like a sheet.
I know I'm not forgiven but I need a place to sleep.
So take this night and lay me down on the street.
I know I'm not forgiven but I hope that I'll be given some peace.
Some peace, some peace.

Black Lab, 'This Night'

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 "This Night" video footage of Black Lab. The Shield promo song.

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But I'm still looking for your beautiful deep brown eyes...

Yeah... I still do.

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"Sometimes I feel so happy
Sometimes I feel so sad
Sometimes I feel so happy
But lately you just make me mad.
Lately you just make me mad
Linger on, your pale blue eyes,
Linger on, your pale blue eyes.

I thought of you as my mountain top
I thought of you as my peak.
I thought of you as everything
I've had but couldn't keep,
I've had but couldn't keep.
Linger on, your pale blue eyes,
Linger on, your pale blue eyes.

If I could make the world as pure and strange as what I see,
I'd put you in the mirror I place in front of me
I'd place in front of me.
Linger on, your pale blue eyes,
Linger on, your pale blue eyes.

Skip a life completely, stuff it in a cup.
She said money is like us in time,
It lies but can't stand up.
Down for you is up.
Linger on, your pale blue eyes,
Linger on, your pale blue eyes.

It was fun what we did yesterday
and I'd do it once again.
The fact that you are married
It only proves that you're my best friend.
But it's truly, truly a sin.
Linger on, your pale blue eyes
Linger on, your pale blue eyes"

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Pale Blue Eyes  foi escrita por Lou Reed e interpretada pelos The Velvet Underground.
Foi incluída em 1969 no album The Velvet Underground da banda com o mesmo nome.

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"So close, so close and yet so far away"

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Nas noites de hoje, amanhã e depois,

a chuva de 'estrelas cadentes'

estará no seu máximo.

São as Perseidas,

a chuva de meteoros mais 'famosa' do ano!

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Perseidas, porque parece ser originária das vizinhanças

da estrela gamma persei na constelação Perseu.

É uma chuva provocada pela intersecção da órbita

da Terra com a órbita do cometa Swift-Tuttle.

O facto de estar Lua Cheia vai 'ofuscar'

um pouco o brilho da 'chuva'.

Até porque luar como o de Agosto,

só o de Janeiro...

Mas com uma Taxa Horária Zenital prevista

de 100 meteoros, uau!

Bem, é esperar para ver!

Aproveitar o céu limpo!

 A não perder a partir da meia noite!

Roger Waters & David Gilmour:

Comfortably Numb, Live, O2 Arena, Londres 

Maio 2011 

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Roger Waters + David Gilmour: Comfortably Numb, Live, O2 Arena 2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUYzQaCCt2o

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"People I know, places I go, make me feel tongue-tied
I can see how people look down, they're on the inside
here's where the story ends
people I see, weary of me showing my good side
I can see how people look down
I'm on the outside
here's where the story ends
ooh here's where the story ends

it's that little souvenir of a terrible year
which makes my eyes feel sore
oh I never should have said, the books that you read
were all I loved you for
it's that little souvenir of a terrible year
which makes me wonder why
and it's the memories of your shed that make me turn red
surprise, surprise, surprise

crazy I know, places I go
make me feel so tired
I can see how people look down
I'm on the outside
oh here's where the story ends
ooh here's where the story ends

it's that little souvenir of a terrible year
which makes my eyes feel sore
and who ever would've thought the books that you brought
were all I loved you for
oh the devil in me said, go down to the shed
I know where I belong
but the only thing I ever really wanted to say
was wrong, was wrong, was wrong

it's that little souvenir of a colourful year
which makes me smile inside
so I cynically, cynically say, the world is that way
surprise, surprise, surprise, surprise, surprise
here's where the story ends
ooh here's where the story ends"

Sundays, "Here's Where The Story Ends"

The Sundays - Here's Where The Story Ends

Billy Joel - Just the Way You Are

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"Pride can stand a thousand trials
The strong will never fall
But watching stars without you
My soul cries

Heaving heart is full of pain
Oooh, oooh, the aching
'Cause I'm kissing you, oooh
I'm kissing you, oooh

Touch me deep, pure and true
Give to me forever
'Cause I'm kissing you, oooh
I'm kissing you, oooh

Where are you now
Where are you now
'Cause I'm kissing you
I'm kissing you, oooh"

Kissing You, Des'ree & Craig Armstrong

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Des'ree - I'm Kissing You

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'All the nights that I've missed you
All the nights without end
All the times that I've called you
Only needing a friend
Now your eyes shine with beauty
That I missed long ago
Guess the truth is I love you
I can't say any more
'Cause I need you
Yes I want you
Yes I love you
As I look from my window
To the streets where you stand
I am gazing through dark glass
We can't walk hand in hand
Though your friends try to tell me
Though your friends you defend
They keep my heart from your heart
We must be in the end
'Cause I love you
Yes I need you
Yes I love you

All the nights that I've missed you
All the nights without end
All the times that I've called you
Only needing a friend
Now your eyes shine with beauty
That I missed long ago
Guess the truth is I love you
I can't say any more
'Cause I need you
Yes I want you
Yes I love you'

Barclay James Harvest, Poor Man's Moody Blues

* BJH - Poor Man's Moody Blues *

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Don't come after
Come
Don't come after
Please don't follow me along
When you read this I'll be gone
Ask the mountains
Springs and fountains
Why couldn't this go on?
Couldn't our happiness go on?
Ask the sun that lightens up the sky
When the night gives in, to tell you why
Ask the mountains
Wild woods, highlands
Ask the green in the woods and the trees
The cold breeze coming in from the sea
Springs and fountains
Ask the mountains
Springs and fountains
Ask the sun that lightens up the sky
When the night gives in, to tell you why
Tell the mountains
Springs and fountains
Why couldn't this go on?
Couldn't our happiness go on?

Vangelis, Ask The Mountains

                               * Vangelis - Ask The Mountains *

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Mulher, não és só obra de Deus;
os homens vão-te criando eternamente
com a formosura dos seus corações,
e os seus anseios
vestiram de glória a tua juventude.

Por ti o poeta vai tecendo
a sua imaginária tela de oiro:
o pintor dá às tuas formas,
dia após dia,
nova imortalidade.

Para te adornar, para te vestir,
para tornar-te mais preciosa,
o mar traz as suas pérolas,
a terra o seu oiro,
sua flor os jardins do Verão.

Mulher, és meio mulher,
meio sonho.

Rabindranath Tagore,

A Mulher Inspiradora in "O Coração da Primavera"

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* Neneh Cherry - Woman*

(...)

There ain't a woman in this world,
Not a woman or a little girl,
That can't deliver love
In a man's world.

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Há quem diga que todas as noites são de sonhos.
Mas há também quem diga nem todas, só as de verão.
Mas no fundo isso não tem muita importância.
O que interessa mesmo não são as noites em si, são os sonhos.
Sonhos que o homem sonha sempre.
Em todos os lugares, em todas as épocas do ano,
dormindo ou acordado.

William Shakespeare

* Loreena McKennitt - The Mistic's Dream *

... Um sonho nebuloso numa noite terrena

Paira sobre a lua crescente...

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[... A clouded dream on an earthly night

Hangs upon the crescent moon...]

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"Dantes dizia-se, quando alguém morria, que um corvo levava a sua alma para a terra dos mortos.

Mas, às vezes, algo tão mau acontece, que uma tristeza terrível acompanha a alma, não a deixando repousar.

E às vezes, só às vezes, o corvo pode trazer a alma de volta para corrigir o que estava errado.

Um prédio arde.

Só restam cinzas.

Pensava que tudo se passava assim.

Famílias.

Amigos.

Sentimentos.

Mas agora eu sei que, às vezes,

se o amor for verdadeiro, nada separa duas pessoas que se amam.

Se aqueles que amamos nos são roubados,

temos que os amar sempre para que eles vivam mais.

Edifícios ardem.

Pessoas morrem.

Mas o amor sincero vive para sempre."

Excerto retirado do filme O Corvo

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The Cure - Burn

... Lamentavelmente, o último filme com Brandon Lee.

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* Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man *

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"Oh, dádiva de Deus! Um dia perfeito,

em que o homem não trabahará,

mas terá tempo de lazer,

em que me bastará nada fazer

e apenas ser."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Bonita esta obra do compositor contemporâneo John Adams.

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"Não é belo o que é belo, mas aquilo que agrada."

Carlo Goldoni

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"O mundo é um belo livro, mas é pouco útil a quem não o sabe ler."

Carlo Goldoni