Turquía..., el Rey Midas..., Alejandro Magno..., civilizaciones celtas, frigias, hititas, cimerianas...Hoy hacemos un alto en nuestro viaje por la música de Loreena McKennit, en su tema "Beneath A Phrygian Sky".
Loreena hace la siguiente anotación, en su álbum "An Ancient Muse":
"Gordion, Turquía, junio de 2002
Hoy he visitado el yacimiento arqueológico más increíble justo a las afueras de Gordion, en Anatolia, Turquía. Cuenta la leyenda que es el hogar del Rey Midas y el lugar donde Alejandro Magno cortó el “nudo Gordian”, esconde capas de civilizaciones: los Hittites, Frigios, Cimerianos y Celtas entre otros…
Ephesus, Turquía, octubre de 2005
Ésta es nuestra última parada en un viaje demasiado corto por Turquía. Deambulamos alrededor de este increíble monumento, y una vez más me dejo llevar por las reflexiones acerca de la civilización que vivió aquí en su día: el comercio, el culto y la vida diaria. Las historias que podrían contarnos estas piedras…
Estudios Real World, Wiltshire, mayo de 2006
Me cuesta definir lo que transmite esta canción… Quizá es una llamada a las armas, por nuestro amor propio como especie y por el mundo natural con el cual nos entrelazamos. ¿Qué podemos aprender de la historia, teniendo en cuenta todas las oportunidades que se nos brindan? ¿Podemos? ¿Lo haremos? Pienso en las palabras de Edmund Burke: “Todo lo necesario para que triunfe el mal es que los hombres buenos no hagan nada.”"
Os dejo, con la letra de la canción, y un vídeo con el tema.
Besitos y nos vemos en "Never-Ending Road" (Amhrán Duit)".
BENEATH A PHRYGIAN SKY
Music and lyric: Loreena McKennitt
The moonlight it was dancing
On the waves, out on the sea
The stars of heaven hovered
In a shimmering galaxy
A voice from down the ages
So in haunting in its song
These ancient stones will tell us
Our love must make us strong
The breeze it wrapped around me
As I stood there on the shore
And listened to this voice
Like I never heard before
Our battles they may find us
No choice may ours to be
But hold the banner proudly
The truth will set us free
My mind was called across the years
Of rages and of strife
Of all the human misery
And all the waste of life
We wondered where our God was
In the face of so much pain
I looked up to the stars above
To find you once again
We travelled the wide oceans
Heard many call your name
With sword and gun and hatred
It all seemed much the same
Some used your name for glory
Some used it for their gain
Yet when liberty lay wanting
No lives were lost in vain
Is it not our place to wonder
As the sky does weep with tears
And all the living creatures
Look on with mortal fear
It is ours to hold the banner
Is ours to hold it long
It is ours to carry forward
Our love must make us strong
And as the warm wind carried
Its song into the night
I closed my eyes and tarried
Until the morning light
As the last star it shimmered
And the new sun’s day gave birth
It was in this magic moment
Came this prayer for mother earth
Reprise:
The moonlight it was dancing
On the waves, out on the sea
The stars of heaven hovered
In a shimmering galaxy
A voice from down the ages
So in haunting in its song
The ancient stones will tell us
Our love will make us strong
The moonlight it was dancing
On the waves, out on the sea
The stars of heaven hovered
In a shimmering galaxy
A voice from down the ages
So in haunting in its song
These ancient stones will tell us
Our love must make us strong
The breeze it wrapped around me
As I stood there on the shore
And listened to this voice
Like I never heard before
Our battles they may find us
No choice may ours to be
But hold the banner proudly
The truth will set us free
My mind was called across the years
Of rages and of strife
Of all the human misery
And all the waste of life
We wondered where our God was
In the face of so much pain
I looked up to the stars above
To find you once again
We travelled the wide oceans
Heard many call your name
With sword and gun and hatred
It all seemed much the same
Some used your name for glory
Some used it for their gain
Yet when liberty lay wanting
No lives were lost in vain
Is it not our place to wonder
As the sky does weep with tears
And all the living creatures
Look on with mortal fear
It is ours to hold the banner
Is ours to hold it long
It is ours to carry forward
Our love must make us strong
And as the warm wind carried
Its song into the night
I closed my eyes and tarried
Until the morning light
As the last star it shimmered
And the new sun’s day gave birth
It was in this magic moment
Came this prayer for mother earth
Reprise:
The moonlight it was dancing
On the waves, out on the sea
The stars of heaven hovered
In a shimmering galaxy
A voice from down the ages
So in haunting in its song
The ancient stones will tell us
Our love will make us strong
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