Baja tus Armas

Pensando en la publicación de David Menares ("A veces pienso..."), pensaba en cuan horrible es cuando alguien cercano y cristiano te daña, y te deja paralizado... sin poder confiar más, poder abrirse... (por eso la gran pausa en mis publicaciones acá), quedándose atrapado en la amargura y la decepción... un proceso difícil, porque el que más pierde es uno mismo.

Esta canción muestra lo que se podría decir que ha sido mi proceso de vuelta a la confianza y la sanidad. Al final, todo el dolor abrió grietas que dejaron entrar la verdad a mi corazón.

Armas (Traducción mía) (<- video acá) The Long Fall Back To Earth
por Jars of Clay

Lyrics:

Aleluya, podemos finalmente oir
Es un milagro sentir por lo menos algo
Cosas que plantamos en los peores días del año Things we planted on the worst days of the year
Crecieron a dedos que desgarraron la alegría
Y dejaron nuestras espaldas contra el muro

Baja tus armas
Baja tus armas
No hay enemigos frente tuyo

Aleluya, podemos finalmente oir
Cómo la amargura te hacía moretones en la piel How the bitterness was bruising on our skin
No nos dimos cuenta que la gracia casi se había agotado
Aún nos venimos abajo, y las grietas en nuestros corazones dejan que penetre la verdad.


Acá va en inglés.

Weapons

The Long Fall Back To Earth
by Jars of Clay

Lyrics:

Hallelujah, we can finally hear
It’s a miracle we feel anything at all
Things we planted on the worst days of the year
Grew to fingers that rip at the joy
And set our backs against the wall

Lay your weapons down
Lay your weapons down
There are no enemies in front of you

Hallelujah, we can finally see
How the bitterness was bruising on our skin
We didn’t notice that grace had run so thin
Till we’re falling apart and the cracks in our hearts let the truth sink in

(Jars of Clay) © 2009 Bridge Building / Pogostick Music (BMI). All rights for the world on behalf of Pogostick Music administered by Bridge Building.

Behind the Song:
DAN HASELTINE: “I was watching a show on the Sundance channel called Iconoclasts, where comedian Dave Chapelle was asking poet Maya Angelou about growing up in the civil rights movement -- and what it meant to her to have experienced the marginalization of who she was based on her color. Chapelle asked Angelou if it had made her angry. And Angelou said, “Absolutely.” But when it comes to anger, she said, you need to write it, and speak it, and dance it, and sing it, and paint it, and sculpt it. Because if you don’t, she warned, it becomes bitterness -- a cancer that eats away at your heart and soul and passion. So that's where ‘Weapons’ came from. It sounds like an anti-war song -- and maybe it is -- but not in the traditional context.”

CHARLIE LOWELL: “I love starting a record off with ‘There are no enemies in front of you.’ It’s sort of us saying -- to ourselves and to the listener -- “Let down your guard. Bring everything you have to this record and see where it takes you. See what happens.”