Le vacanze pasquali mi hanno permesso di ascoltare spesso la nuova Virgin Radio (rock, molto bella, da ascoltare) e per 2 volte è passata una canzone che mi ha colpito, sia per la voce del cantante che per la musica.
Googlando, dato che ricordavo 3 o 4 parole del ritornello, ho scoperto che si tratta di "Empty walls" di Serj Tankian, cantante armeno dei metallari System of a down (SOAD).
Il video mostra un mix particolare: dei bambini che giocano a fare la guerra, a simulare la caduta delle Twin Towers e dei bombardamenti in Afghanistan. Serj canta tra bolle di sapone e palline. E si chiude su una bara di un soldato morto in guerra. E' molto bello.
Inoltre meritano senza dubbio una lettura le parole della canzone:
Your empty walls...
Your empty walls...
Pretentious attention
Dismissive aprehension
Don't waste your time, on coffins today
When we decline, from the confines of our mind
Don't waste your time, on coffins today
Don't you see their bodies burning?
Desolate and full of yearning
Dying of anticipation
Choking from intoxication
Don't you see their bodies burning?
Desolate and full of yearning
Dying of anticipation
Choking from intoxication
I want you
To be
Left behind those empty walls
Taunt you
to see
From behind those empty walls
Those empty walls
When we decline, from the confines of our mind
Don't waste your time, on coffins today
Don't you see their bodies burning?
Desolate and full of yearning
Dying of anticipation
Choking from intoxication
Don't you see their bodies burning?
Desolate and full of yearning
Dying of anticipation
Choking from intoxication
I want you
To be
Left behind those empty walls
Taunt you
To see
From behind those empty walls
Want you to be
Left behind those empty walls
Taunt you
to see
From behind those empty walls
From behind those empty walls
From behind those empty walls
The walls
From behind those empty walls
I loved you
yesterday, before
you killed my family
Don't you see their bodies burning?
Desolate and full of yearning
Dying of anticipation
Choking from intoxication
Don't you see their bodies burning?
Desolate and full of yearning
Dying of anticipation
Choking from intoxication
I want you
To be
Left behind those empty walls
Taunt you
To see
From behind those empty walls
Want you to be, left behind those empty walls
Taunt you
To see
From behind those empty walls
From behind those empty walls
From behind those empty walls
From behind those empty walls
Those walls...
Those walls...