Songbook #21

Earlier this week, on the bus to Jersey, I couldn't remember the name of my favorite Fito Paez song. Weirdly, my brain just would not access the melody or the chorus of the song. I just realized that the song is Al lado del camino, which is the name of this blog, and which I've translated here. 



Here's another Fito Song that moves me. It's from an earlier album, Rey Sol, that was released in 2000, when I lived in BsAs. The Shining of the Sun:

I drank, I drank I drank.
I drank to die, I drank.
I drank, I drank, I drank.
I was so sad, fuck.

I don't know if I saw a dolphin.
I don't know if I saw a jaguar,
the Virgen of Lujan
or the lights of the bar.

After, you see me get lost
in Salta, in that cabaret.
There wasn't anyone there.
Oh god, how did I get there?

The next thing I saw,
I don't know but I saw him,
was Natalio Ruiz,
the man in the grey hat.

The sunbeam of love-
I don't know what we talk about when we talk about love.

The shining of the sun,
The kiss that could cross
the line of terror,
so that we're not alone, us two.

There are many people here inside me.
They all shout and they all become quiet,
All of them lost in this prison,
Seeing lights where there is nothing.

Only the lights, the ones of the heart,
happiness and solace,
something in the world
turns it on, my love,
imperfect, naked, blind,

The shining of the sun.