UMA QUESTÃO DE JUSTIÇA
N’ O Quinto dos Impérios, FMS escreveu:

”Aparte uma ou outra nota esporádica do Alberto e do Carlos, não tenho visto na blogosfera melómana a homenagem devida ao génio de Stephin Merritt(…)”

Para que deixem de ser “esporádicas”, aqui me penitencio, transcrevendo uma das minhas favoritas de entre as 69:

Epitaph for My Heart
por Stephin Merritt

“Caution: to prevent electric shock
do not remove cover
No user-serviceable parts inside
Refer servicing to qualified
Service personnel”

Let this be the epitaph for my heart
Cupid put too much poison in the dart
This is the epitaph for my heart
Because it’s gone, gone, gone
And life goes on and on and on
And death goes on, world without end
And you’re not my friend
Who will mourn the passing of my heart
Will its little droppings
Climb the pop chart
Who’ll take its ashes and, singing, fling
Them from the top of the Brill Building
And life goes on, and dawn, and dawn
And death goes on, world without end
And you’re not my friend.

in “69 Love Songs”