Manu sez:
That which i have read about my friend
Fermin Maguruza
those days in certain papers scandalized me profoundly.
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Manu sez:
That which i have read about my friend Fermin Maguruza those days in certain papers scandalized me profoundly. |
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of the character is
really totally caricaturizaed,
tendencied, besides
in the total opposite of the true person
with who i sing and share a stage every day
In the face of the aggresive attacks,
hostile and injust, to which
he is submitted
Fermin knows that he can count
on all my strength and support.
The spectacle Jai/Alai Katumbi Express
always was and will be unique and indivisible!
...Radio Bemba not welcome in the city...
Accused of promoting assassinations,
of being defenders of terrorism
most bloodthirsty, and I dont know how many more idiocies...
If it cant try with better words
all should become simply a
ridiculous joke, absurd, boring...
words in the wind, carried by the current...
But in this precise case the accusations hurt... and offend.
They hurt and they offend
because they distort
and they torture
our public image
and our most profound ideals
I was born in Paris
I grew up in a republic
and if that republic showed me something
it is that all of us
are born equal,
and that my liberty
ends there where begins
that of the neighbours.
I have it clearly.
And that implies a permanent denial
of whatever
form of intentional
or gratuitous violence
to another person.
Also i think and feel
that this world has shot itself...
...in one without the end of violence every day
more terrible for being absurd...
definitively absurd and without a way out...
...what's the way out for the crises in Irak now?
Nobody knows!
Whats the way out for the crises in Euskadi (Basque)?
Nobody knows!
Nor I!
Maybe giving it
the opportunity
of a word.
And no, like well said,
Vazquez Montalban,
intending to extinguish the fire,
throws more gasoline on it.
It's all a muddle!
We're all kneaded
into a huge meringue!
And I ask myself:
Who cares
in what may have so much of a mess?
Who takes out roasted potatoes
when all take thorns?
Who needs to disestablish it all?
Who needs to repress, in order to better reign...
In order to better earn, more money, in the short-term,
like the badly-educated... without thinking of anything else...
... nor in the future of their own kids?
...the only thing that i know and that frightens me,
is that the majority of those that govern us
are of that suicidal nature for whatever
humanly fraternal solution... in Basque,
like in Spain or in the best part of the rest of the known world...
and so i take my leave...
...thanks for the attention...
...we'll see each other on the road...
...seeking an ideal...
...every day more difficult to achieve...
... the thing is screwed...
...it's necessary to be attentive...
...Democracy shakes above...
...they come for one...
...and nobody says anything...
...they come for another...
...and nobody says anything...
...or so little...
...those that bit by bit suffer the traps...
...every day more vulgar...
...in their own flesh...
...and although we may be much the majority...
...like against that absurd war...
...nor do they listen to us...
...with all prepotency...
...they shit on us a silver lining...
...they invade us by the inlets...
...discrediting...
...drowning in lies...
...desocializing...
...dividing the society...
...they close the newspapers in Euskadi...
...and puke us more lies...
...that we are in danger...
...because of a lack of repression!...
...that all those who don't think like them...
...we are all dangerous terrorists
...old times are IN RETURN
the same old times,
same rancid winds,
that made instead of being born in Bilbao or Galicia
...i might have to had been born in Paris
far from my deep roots
In order to follow with what pained me,
i would like for us, like radio Bemba,
to ask our forgiveness
from the people of Malaga and Murcia
for not being able to present
this tuesday and next friday
our spectacular
Jai/Alai Katumbi Express
for reasons
totally contrary
to our will.
At the next time we'll see each other.
Soon will come better times.
May we be ready.
next station: Hope.
Manu Chao
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