Canciones para una vida - Amorphis - Northwards

 

NORTHWARDS

Siempre me termina pasando lo mismo con las obras que van sacando los finlandeses Amorphis, con pocas escuchas noto esa necesidad de escuchar sus temas una y otra vez, dejandome claro a mi mismo que se trata de una de mis bandas preferidas y en general creo que de una de las bandas del panorama internacional con más garantías para generar obras de calidad. Este décimo quinto LP de estudio de la banda, "Halo", recien salido a la luz este pasado 11 de febrero no es una excepción, y seguramente seguiré acudiendo a él en más ocasiones. Hoy dejo en el blog el tema que abre la obra, titulado "Northwards", de la que dejo un enlace a youtube.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwyrppDEcYM 

 

Ice it shattered into shards
Gave away under our feet
Many men did lose their lives
Taken by Tuonela’s river

In the blue frost of the night
In the icy waters of death
Stifled were both wail and whisper
Frozen were the living hearts

The days they followed each other
Nights defended our dreams
With the seasons grew our circle
And we knew we’d found our place

We would start from the beginning
Make it with our meager means
Crouching, cowering companions
Journeying ever northwards

Waking in the dead of night
My eyes opened in the darkness
I saw the sign of the red hand
Marking the mouth of a cave
On the sordid, stony ground
On a field of frozen grass
I found my spirit kith and kindred
My sisters and my brothers

Game is good and plentiful here
Happy is the life, the life of man
It was not in vain we came
Strayed from the silent waters

The days they followed each other
Nights defended our dreams
With the seasons grew our circle
And we knew we’d found our place

We would start from the beginning
Make it with our meager means
Crouching, cowering companions
Journeying ever northwards 

By Nash