Canciones para una vida - Fates Warning - The Apparition

 

THE  APPARITION

Nueva visita a una de esas obras de obligada mención, en su conjunto, es uno de esos LP's en los que la mayor parte de la gente está de acuerdo en considerar como un hito no solo en la carrera de la banda sino del heavy metal en general, de haber parido más obras de este nivelón general estaríamos hablando de un grupo tan grande como los mismisimos Maiden. Hablamos por supuesto de los estadounidenses Fates Warning y de su "The spectre Within" de 1985. Es evidente que el toque progresivo de este grupo puede ser más limitador para el gran público que un sonido más directo como por ejemplo el de los mencionados Maiden sobre todo los discos ochenteros, pero la calidad de esta obra, es tan aplastante que a pocos se les debería resistir, otro buen ejemplo es el tema que hoy dejo en el blog, "The Apparition", del que dejo un enlace a youtube.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-5P7PWkvFY 

 

When the stars are right and you're alone
Take a journey, lock the world up tight
Out of your mind.
The hall beckons your presence, the doors
Open wide you're to decide to turn back.
Deep the bowels of this black abyss,
Compelled I just can't resist it, take me.

Take me away take me away
I wanna know what's deep within
Take me away.

Drawing near someone passes through me,
A silent entity never looking back I won't dare.
Evil eyes staring through the walls of stone
As I feared I travel not alone.
Laughters echoes with the blatant wind
I have passed the threshold deep within me.

Take me away take me away
I wanna know what's deep within
Take me away.

A voice of thunder said turn back
Tabernacle is forbidden.
No mortal dares to enter here.
I want to know.

Flame is burning center of a fountain yearning, waters
Spring eternal, spiritual water physical fire.
Above the center is sky, cold cold neverness
Just vastness filled with stars upon stars.
In the four corners of life are the golden mirrors
Reflecting what you are and what you are to be.

In the first is a young boy white dove in
His hand, in the second is a warrior in armour,
In the third is an old man gold watch
In his hand fourth and last
No reflection at all
No reflection at all
No reflection at all

Waters rise toward physical fire, voice says
Tabernacle is forbidden never looking back I don't dare.
If the water touches the flame
Forever in darkness yes I'll remain.
White dove flies from the young boys hand
Through the mirror of the old man, only way out

Take me away take me away
I wanna know what's deep within
Take me away.

Take me away take me away
I wanna know what's deep within
Take me away. 

By Nash