Al sentirlo por primera vez, porque a este hombre que quiere ser mujer no se le oye, se le siente, pensé que era un negrazo del Norte de Europa. Cuando di con su aspecto por el Google imágenes, mi devoción hacia él fue ya absoluta. Su canción, Hope there´s someone, se instaló de casualidad en mis oídos y es que, a pesar de tener una cultura cinéfila fotogramera, no caí en la cuenta de que era la canción de La vida secreta de las palabras, y es que mi fuente fue el anuncio de la colonia de Massimo Dutti, ¡otra vez la publicidad!. Y nada, que buscando y rebuscando, encontré una maravillosa adaptación de un poema de Edgar Allan Poe, The Lake :
In youth's spring, it was my lot
To haunt of the wide earth a spot
To which I could not love the less
So lovely was the loneliness
Of a wild lake, with black rock bound
And the tall trees that towered around
But when the night had thrown her pall
Upon that spot as upon all
And the wind would pass me by
In its stilly melody
My infant spirit would awake
To the terror of the lone lake
My infant spirit would awake
To the terror of the lone lake
Yet that terror was not fright
But a tremulous delight
And a feeling undefined
Springing from a darkened mind
Death was in that poisoned wave
And in its gulf a fitting grave
For him who thence could solace bring
To his dark imagining
Whose wildering though could even make
An Eden of that dim lake
But when the night had thrown her pall
Upon that spot as upon all
And the wind would pass me by
In its stilly melody
My infant spirit would awake
To the terror of the lone lake
My infant spirit would awake
To the terror of the lone lake
Springing from a darkened mind
So lovely was the loneliness
In youth's spring, it was my lot
In its stilly melody
An Eden of that dim lake
An Eden of that dim lake
Lone, lone, lonely...
tantas...hasta que llegué a la catarsis con Cripple and the Starfish. Puede que me pillara sensiblote en aquella primera escucha, pero os puedo asegurar que nunca una canción me había provocado "tanta cosa junta":