Can't Run But
(2018)

I can't run, but I can walk much faster than this
Can't run, but
I can't run, but I can walk much faster than this
Can't run, but

A cooling system
Burns out in the Ukraine
Trees and umbrellas
Protect us from the new rain
Armies of engineers
To analyze the soil
The food we contemplate
The water that we boil

I can't run, but I can walk much faster than this
Can't run, but
I can't run, but I can walk much faster than this
Can't run but
Oo-we Oo-we

I had a dream about us
After that long goodnight
I felt a pain in my shoulder blade
Was like a pencil point? A love bite?
A couple was rubbing against us
Rubbing and doing that new dance
The man was wearing a jacket and jeans
The woman was laughing in advance

I can't run, but I can walk much faster than this
Can't run, but
I can't run, but I can walk much faster than this
Can't run, but

The legend is a winding river
Winds around the heart
Tighter and tighter
Till the muddy waters part
Down by the riverbank
A DJ arrives
The sub-bass feels like an earthquake
The top-end cuts like knives

Oh, I can't run, but I can walk much faster than this
Can't run, but
I can't run, but I can walk much faster than this
Can't run, but
Oo-we Oo-we

 

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Trompeta: CJ Camerieri
Flauta: Alex Sopp
Clarinete: Hideaki Aomori
Violín: Rob Moose
Viola: Nadia Sirota
Violonchelo: Gabriel Cabezas

Arreglo de Bryce Dessner basado en el arreglo original para The Rhythm of The Saints de Marco Antônio Guimaraes

© 2018 Paul Simon (BMI)
Disco: In The Blue Light

Original: © 1989, 1990 Paul Simon (BMI)
Disco: The Rhythm Of The Saints


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Resumen de los cambios de la versión original a la version de 2018:

  • I can’t run but / I can walk much faster than this → I can't run, but I can walk much faster than this

    • Se añade una coma después de "run" en la versión 2018. Esto afecta mínimamente la lectura, dando una pausa rítmica más marcada.
  • I had a dream about us / In the bottles and the bones of the night → I had a dream about us / After that long goodnight

    Aquí hay un cambio total de imagen poética. “bottles and the bones of the night” sugiere un ambiente nocturno caótico, urbano, algo etílico o decadente. “after that long goodnight” remite a una despedida o quizás incluso a la muerte ("the long goodnight" es un eufemismo clásico para morir).

    Ambas versiones mantienen la frase ambigua: "Like a pencil point? A love bite?" Pero en la 2018 aparece como: Was like a pencil point? A love bite? Se añade "was" al inicio, quizás para completar mejor la métrica.
  • A winding river / Gets wound around a heart.../ Down by the river bank / A blues band arrives... → The legend is a winding river / Winds around the heart.../ Down by the riverbank / A DJ arrives / The sub-bass feels like an earthquake / The top-end cuts like knives

    • Cambio importante en la estrofa final: De una banda de blues (música tradicional, analógica, humana) pasamos a un DJ (música digital, electrónica). La descripción sonora también cambia: en 1990 “la música sufre”, pero “el negocio musical prospera”.En 2018, el "sub-bajo" y el "tono agudo" cortante dan una sensación física e inmediata, casi violenta. Esto podría reflejar la evolución del sonido y de la industria musical entre 1990 y 2018.