Canciones para una vida - Seventh Avenue - Pray

 

PRAY

Primera de las obras de estudio de los alemanes "Seventh Avenue", obra con la que comenzaron su historia que injustamente una vez más no alcanzó el reconocimiento merecido atendiendo a la calidad demostrada ya desde los comienzos mismos. Hablamos de 1995 cuando editaban este debut "Rainbowland", un disco que mostraba un comienzo algo más orientado a un power speed, algo más orientado hacia un sonido  heavy clásico que se tornaría mucho más power de corte europeo en obras posteriores dando en este "Rainbowland" esa sensación de power primitivo si se quiere, como si se tuviera que haber compuesto años antes de la fecha que muestra, y de hecho así fue, ya que muchos de estos temas parece ser que se compusieron en los incios del grupo, entre 1989 y 1992. Líricamente hablando estamos ante una banda que hace guiños continuos a la temática cristiana o religiosa  De este disco quiero hoy dejar en el blog ña canción "Pray", de la que dejo un enlace a youtube.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9SHB3W4dB4 

 

If your mother dies,
You will pray;
If your father dies,
You will to God all say;
If your sister is raped
Then you will pray
If your girl gets a baby
Then you will to God all say.

Pray, now there's time to say
Pray, now it's time for a new beginning
A prayer in the night, sometimes seems like a fight
A prayer from the heart is bringing sunshine in the dark

If you have to pass an exam,
Then you will pray;
If you take by force a bank,
Even then you will to God all say
You pray to God in your life;
You say him all your wishes
Won't you end with your sin,
God helps you go the way to him.

You'll see a prayer makes you free, makes you free
Then you'll see no danger, you are free, you are free 

By Nash  

Canciones para una vida - Seventh Avenue - Southgate

 

INTRODUCE  &  SOUTHGATE

Otra de las obras de los alemanes "Seventh Avenue", en uno de sus mejores momentos a nivel compositivo y de estabilidad del grupo, ya asentados como banda por completo y desarrollando ese sonido tan característico de esos años en el subgénero power dentro de la corriente europea. Estamos ante un grupo, como ya he dicho en el blog, para nada suficientemente reconocido, y es que si se pudiese definir el power metal de esa época y escuela esta banda cumpliría matemáticamente todos y cada uno de sus puntos. Este "Southgate" de 1998 es el tercer LP de la banda, y en el encontramos temazos como el que abre la obra y da nombre a la misma, toda una declaración de intenciones de la que hoy dejo un enlace a youtube.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUGA-6yp4Fw 

 

A breeze of eternity strokes over my skin
I don't tell from a game only from awin
Remember the story of Rainbowland
Maybe now You get your second whack
In the dimension where all dimensions end
is no requiem which you could rescind
You hold the future in your hand
Have all the keys for the promised land

One day I hear you cry

We are waiting for the new take
But come back to the southgate
So try to wind up our clockwork toys
But no cheers from the girls and boys

Let me take you far away
To confront you with this day
You go from where you came
From the beginning to the end
And your spirit leaves your body
Spirit bodies go on the journey
Only one entrance and only one exit
At your ships helm always yourself sit

Southgate Southgate
At the Southgate of the run
Here is where all end - here all began
At the Southgate of your ways
You get every time - it's the end of all days
I could show you where to go
We both knew that it was the truth
Southgate - endbreak
Southgate - New agape

Alike what on the bottom of your heart lies
The creator not once heavily armed past by
The guards lead you to the gate
But your case will not be retryed

Ask Carol where she went
With your heart in your hand
Are your protection of a fool
For big city sharks not as a rule
You say goodbye cause you'll never see
Your friend - the puppet of the mighty
For father is what counts love and sin
And not always may the best one win
The nameless child in each of us
Only with it in God we trust
Now you need not to sweat with fear
Cause you could have Jesus very near
no saying, no fairy tale; but it could be one
A dumb look reminds of what you have done

I doesn't need to be

We are waiting for the new take
But come back to the southgate
So try to wind up our clockwork toys
But no cheers from the girls and boys

At the Southgate of the run
Here is where all end - here all began
At the Southgate of your ways
You get every time - it's the end of all days
I could show you where to go
We both knew that it was the truth
Southgate - endbreak
Southgate - New agape

Many legends about the sense of life
Many questions about place and time
Wolves in sheep's clothing tell you lies
He tries to throw dust in your eyes
He's not the sandman but tries to be
Does everything that you can't see
So keep your wit in about be one
Don't do what a wizard could have done

Don't wait for this time

We are waiting for the new take
But come back to the southgate
So try to wind up our clockwork toys
But no cheers from the girls or boys

There's a better place to be
You smile 'cause you couldn't see
Life through so many different episodes
But never wanted to believe in God
Don't see the wind but you know it was
Don't see how it freezes but know it does
One day you will turn back the wheel of time
But the shepherd walks already on his line

Southgate Southgate
At the Southgate of the run
Here is where all end - here all began
At the Southgate of your ways
You get every time - it's the end of all days
I could show you where to go
We both knew that it was the truth
Southgate - endbreak
Southgate - New agape

Seven hundred seventy seven
Read the bible and listen to heaven
One life - with or without prayers
One life - one time for all to give
Many ways - with or without prayers 

By Nash  

Canciones para una vida - Seventh Avenue - Prolog & Tales Of Tales

 

PROLOG  &  TALES  OF  TALES

Completamente hija de su época, mirar los comienzos de la banda alemana "Seventh Avenue" es mirar hacia los inicios del propio subgénero del power metal de corte europeo, hablamos de mediados de la década de los noventa. Siempre me ha parecido que esta banda ha tenido más importancia de lo que las ventas o el reconocimiento general ha dicho, e igualmente su estilo ha tenido ese sello propio, en ocasiones incluso flirteando con ese puntillo progresivo, con grandes obras en su conjunto y que sin duda pusieron su granito de arena a construir esta parte del heavy metal. Formados en 1989 alargaron su actividad hasta 2012, editando en esos años un total de seis LP's de estudio más un EP. Es por lo tanto este grupo, uno de esos a los que tener en cuenta a la hora de hablar de la historia del subgénero power en su vertiente europea. De su discografía quiero hoy dejar en el blog una de las canciones de su segundo LP de estudio, "Tales of tales", de 1996, en concreto la que da nombre a la obra, una de las más conocidas del grupo donde muestran su enorme capacidad, y de la que dejo un enlace a youtube.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SbaQ0xVVm0 

 

Sometimes timeless taste out of time and space
We could tell you stories about some past of glories
You could have some fun with our music gun

We will journey with you show you another truth
Not always entertain - something for your brain
Not always fantasies - something to get on your knees
Tales of tales

Tales of tales, stories for tales
Tales of tales with different mails
Different questions, different answers
Into another world where you could see there
Candles on your way, lightning for everyday
Tales of tales

Open one page of tales
Empty mind with rage
We are not here to preach
And don't want to teach
Think about your way
Before you're blown away
Tales of tales

Coming to the seventh avenue
Push your head around
Take the book of tales and listen to the sound
That's what we have found
Come looking to the ground

For you and for me
There is a better place to be
You could take it if you want
You could leave it if you don't
But one day you will see
That's no land of fantasy
Tales of tales
Tales of tales

Tales of tales, stories for tales
Tales of tales with different mails
Different questions, different answers
Into another world where you could see there
Candles on your way, lightning for everyday
Tales of tales

Isn't it funny
But God don't need your money
He always wants your heart to give you a new start
The devil needs it as well
To go with it to hell 

By Nash.