Canciones para una vida - Sanctuary - Future Tense

FUTURE  TENSE

Sanctuary es una banda estadounidense de esas que se ha movido por diversos subgéneros en su carrera, una vez más y como tantos casos, partida en dos. La primera parte de su carrera se da entre los años 1983 y 1992, luego, sin ser ya la misma banda por las ausencias, por encima de todas la de Warrel Dane, quien tras su salida de Sanctuary formaría Nevermore en la que militaría hasta su fallecimiento en 2017. El caso es que desde 2010 en adelante Sanctuary se reactiva editando un nuevo LP en 2014. En total su discografía 3 LP's y un EP, todos menos el tercer citado disco de su época inicial. Hablamos de heavy metal, groove, thrash y progresivo, saltando de uno a otro género según conveniencia, siempre con la calidad y el buen gusto compositivo de su lado, una banda a la que asomarse. De su segundo LP "Into the mirror black" de 1990, quiero hoy dejar en el blog uno de sus temas, concretamente "Future Tense" que abre la obra, canción de la que dejo un enlace a youtube.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5NCBaPE3k0 

 

What do you see on the news when you watch T.V.
War in the name of God, or a playground killing spree
Politicians promise you the world, and a preacher cries
All he ever wanted was your money, and a bitch on the side
What went wrong? Did society twist him?

What do you see in the center of the public eye
Rock stars on smack, and a serial killer fries
Radicals blame suicide and murder on our form of art
Brainwash the youth, you know they claim we all play a part
What a shame that they can't think for themselves

Past tense to future tense let history unfold
So ends a decade now what will the nineties hold
You know we're verging on the edge of an age
Then another century will turn the page

What do you think they will say when they look back on this
Were the eighties just a time of spoiled innocence
We leave our legacy like dust in the sands of time
Let's hope the seeds we plant can carry the weight of our crimes

Past tense to future tense let history unfold
And when we're old and gray these stories will be told
You know we're verging on the edge of an age
Then another century will turn the page

We sail an ocean, a sea of doubt
Skeptics make no sense, can't work things out
I'll choose optimism, scream its name
Look to the future, a burning flame

Past tense to future tense let history unfold
So ends a decade now what will the nineties hold
You know we're verging on the edge of an age
Then another century will turn the page
Turn the page..... 

By Nash