A menudo sucede que repentinamente un día te fijas en una canción que ya conocías de un disco que tenías más que escuchado... y te das cuenta ahora de lo genial que es. Esa es una de las cosas que más me gustan de reescuchar viejos discos, el conectar repentinamente y sin ningún motivo especial con un tema que ya conocías. Ese clic inesperado y sin motivo alguno.
Bien, esta vez me ha sucedido con "Too Bad" de los Faces de su disco A Nod Is As Good AS A Wink... To A Blind Horse. Hace muchos años que tengo este disco y ya conocía este tema, que lo tenía mentalmente clasificado como una composición cojonuda, pero ahora me tiene enganchadísimo. Además es un tema que representa a la perfección el espíritu de los Faces, por estilo y por su divertidísima letra que comulga totalmente con el tono juerguista de la banda:
Too bad we were thrown downstairs;
We never got a chance to sing.
We were quite polite with one invite
To keep us off the streeet.
We mingled for a minute or two
With the high class clientele.
Then somebody said "who invited them,
that crowd of refugees. Get out!"
What an insult, to be shown the door
Before we could shake a leg.
I was most intrigued by the colored queen
leaning on the kitchen door.
Then I was ushered with my friends
by the butler who was twelve feet tall.
Well let me please explain
'Cause we're not to blame
We just don't have the right accent. No, no
All we wanted to do was to socialize
Oh, you know its a shame I was always getting the blame
All we wanted to do was to socialize
Oh, you know its a shame how we always get the blame
Sweaty girls and damp motels
is where I'm gonna stay.
'Cause now I see what it's all about,
I didn't have the old school tie.
Don't worry, we had no fun waiting
for the all night bus home.
Too bad my regional tongue
Gave us away again.
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