Prefab Sprout – Cars & Girls
Posted on abril 29, 2010
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Creado en 1978, Prefab Sprout fue un grupo inglés que consiguió cierta fama durante los 80 gracias a éxitos como The King of Rock’n’Roll. Liderado por Paddy McAloon, la banda sigue hoy en día en activo.
Después del éxito de su segundo álbum, Steve McQueen, para el tercer disco de la banda, Sony les consiguió colaboraciones de lujo como las de Stevie Wonder y Pete Townshend. Sin embargo, el primer single del disco fue Cars & Girls, que alcanzó el puesto 44 en las listas de ventas británicas.
Sin embargo, en realidad no se trata de una canción sobre coches. Sino de una canción anti-canciones sobre coches. De hecho, McAloon la escribió como respuesta a cantantes como Bruce Springsteen, diciéndoles que “hay cosas que duelen más que los coches y las chicas”.
La han versionado artistas tan dispares como David Nao Ve Estrelas, Orwell, o Szűcs Krisztián.
La letra:
Brucie dreams life’s a highway too many roads bypass my way
Or they never begin. innocence coming to grief
At the hands of life – stinkin’ car thief, that’s my concept of sin
Does heaven wait all heavenly over the next horizon ?
But look at us now, quit driving, some things hurt more much more than cars and girls.
Just look at us now, start counting, what adds up the way it did when we were young ?
Look at us now, quit driving, some things hurt much more than cars and girls.
Life’s a drive through a dust bowl, what’s it do, do to a young soul
We are deeply concerned, someone stops for directions,
Something responds deep in our engines, we have all been burned
Will heaven wait all heavenly over the next horizon ?
But look at us now, quit driving, some things hurt more much more than cars and girls.
Just look at us now, start counting, what adds up the way it did when we were young ?
Look at us now, quit driving, some things hurt much more than cars and girls.
Little boy got a hot rod, thinks it makes him some kind of new god
Well this is one race he won’t win,
‘cos life’s no cruise with a cool chick
Too many folks feelin’ car sick, but it never pulls in.
Brucie’s thoughts – pretty streamers – guess this world needs it’s dreamers may they never wake up.
But look at us now, quit driving, some things hurt more much more than cars and girls.
Just look at us now, start counting, what adds up the way it did when we were young ?
Look at us now, quit driving, some things hurt much more than cars and girls.
But look at us now, quit driving, some things hurt more much more than cars and girls.
Just look at us now, start counting, what adds up the way it did when we were young ?
Look at us now, quit driving, some things hurt much more than cars and girls.
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