FELIZ NAVIDAD, AMIGUITOS

La Navidad es una época propicia para el sentimentalismo, para los buenos propósitos, para la emotividad, para la nostalgia..., cosa que nos puede hacer caminar peligrosamente cerca de la cursilería y de los tópicos; sin embargo, más tópica todavía resulta la actitud de los militantes anti-Navidad (seguramente no hace mucho podía ser yo uno de ellos, aunque lo cierto es que muy militante no lo he sido nunca). Por ello, en este periodo del año en el que se está algo más abierto expresar sentimientos, me parece oportuno transcribir aquí la letra de una canción que logra reivindicar la búsqueda de la belleza, sin caer por ello en la ñoñería o el acaramelamiento (palabra ésta que no recoge el D.R.A.E., cosa que mis lectores sin duda me sabrán perdonar).

BEAUTIFUL

Everybody knows we live in a world
Where they give bad names to beautiful things
Everybody knows we live in a world
Where we don't give beautiful things a second glance
Heaven only knows we live in a world
Where what we call beautiful is just something on sale
People laughing behind their hands
As the fragile and the sensitive are given no chance

And the leaves turn from red to brown
To be trodden down
To be trodden down
And the leaves turn from red to brown
Fall to the ground
Fall to the ground

We don't have to live in a world
Where we give bad names to beautiful things
We should live in a beautiful world
We should give beautiful a second chance

And the leaves fall from red to brown
To be trodden down
Trodden down
And the leaves turn green to red to brown
Fall to the ground
And get kicked around

You strong enough to be
Have you the courage to be
Have you the faith to be
Honest enough to stay
Don't have to be the same
Don't have to be this way
C'mon and sign your name
You wild enough to remain beautiful?
Beautiful

And the leaves turn from red to brown
To be trodden down
Trodden down
And we fall green to red to brown
Fall to the ground
But we can turn it around

You strong enough to be
Why don't you stand up and say
Give yourself a break
They'll laugh at you anyway
So why don't you stand up and be
Beautiful

Black, white, red, gold, and brown
We're stuck in this world
Nowhere to go
Turnin' around
What are you so afraid of?
Show us what you're made of
Be yourself and be beautiful
Beautiful


Feliz Navidad a todos, especialmente a C.S. (aka Sallanworld), a E.R. (aka Michaleen Flynn r), a L.R. (aka Maumaunoexiste), a J.T. (aka Syzygy), a M.O. (aka Lo sapevo). You know why. Y a M; (“when you’re gone I never land in Neverland").

Lo dicho, Feliz Navidad a todos y portaos bien, por favor.