A Música do Dia - Belle & Sebastian - God Help the Girl!

Um blog como o Café & Conversa é feito de fontes e musas. As musas servem de inspiração para as informações que recebemos. Muitas vezes elas próprias é que repassam as informações.

Dia desses, a jornalista Jamila Gontijo recomendou uma cantora que havia conhecido. No dia seguinte, Café & Conversa colocou no ar a americana Melody Gardot tocando o piano em Worrisome Heart.

Nesta madrugada, recebo, pelo twitter, mensagem de Gardot, “somehow my newest theme song. Great feel good album, de Stuart Murdoch”. Se é a “mais nova canção” que Melody Gardot está ouvindo e recomendando, Café & Conversa já ouviu e recomenda God Help the Girl! da banda escocesa Belle & Sebastian.

O vocalista Stuart Murdoch compôs God Help the Girl! para um musical que deve ser lançamento somente em fevereiro de 2010, mas o leitor de Café & Conversa vai ouvindo enquanto preparo meu café de manhã, nesta terça-feira cinzenta, em Brasília. Porque mais tarde é tempo de ir no Café Grenat, comprar meio quilo de Piatã, para a virada do ano novo. Ano novo, café novo. Novidades!

God Help the Girl! é a oportunidade de Belle & Sebastian lançar a novata Catherine Ireton. Divirta-se!

Romoaldo de Souza

God Help the Girl!

(Stuart Murdoch)

There is no way I'm looking for a boyfriend

There is no way I'm looking for a scene

I need to save some dough

I'm a working girl, you know

I'll fend attention off I keep to myself

I love my room, I'm getting used to sleeping

Some nights I really like to lie awake

I hear the midnight birds

The message in their words

The dawn will touch me in a way a boy could never touch

Their promise never meant so much to me

You have been warned, I'm warned to be contrary

Backward at school, I wrote from right to left

Teacher never cared for me

Preacher said a prayer for me

God help the girl, she needs all the help she can get

I sit for hours just waiting for his phone call

I'll leave the chocolate hidden in the fridge

I'll play his messages

Analyze his intonation

Please stop me there, I'm even boring myself

I think of him when I'm doing the dishes

I think of him while looking in the sink

This ain't no play on words

My love for him is absurd

If he gave me a sign I'd think about it for a week

I'd build it up and then I'd turn him down

You have been warned, I'm warned to be contrary

Backward at school, I wrote from right to left

Teacher never cared for me

Preacher said a prayer for me

God help the girl, she needs all the help she can get