The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees
The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon the cloudy seas
The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor
And the highwayman came riding, riding, riding,
The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door.
He'd a French cocked hat on his forehead, a bunch of lace at his chin,
A coat of claret velvet, and breeches of brown doe-skin;
They fitted with never a wrinkle; his boots were up to the thigh!
And he rode with a jewelled twinkle,
His pistol butts a-twinkle,
His rapier hilt a-twinkle, under the jewelled sky.
Over the cobbles he clattered and clashed in the dark innyard,
And he tapped with his whip on the shutters, but all was locked and barred;
He whistled a tune to the window, and who should be waiting there
But the landlord's black-eyed daughter,
Bess the landlord's daughter,
Plaiting a dark red love-knot into her long black hair.
"One kiss, my bonny sweetheart, I'm after a prize tonight,
But I shall be back with the yellow gold before the morning light;
Yet if they press me sharply, and harry me through the day,
Then look for me by the moonlight, watch for me by the moonlight,
I'll come to thee by the moonlight, though hell shall bar the way.
He rose upright in the stirrups; he scarce could reach her hand
But she loosened her hair in the casement! His face burnt like a brand
As the black cascade of the perfume came tumbling over his breast;
And he kissed its waves in the moonlight,
(Oh, sweet waves in the moonlight!)
He tugged at his rein in the moonlight, and galloped away to the west.
He did not come at the dawning; he did not come at noon,
And out of the tawny sunset, before the rise o' the moon,
When the road was a gypsy's ribbon, looping the purple moor,
A red-coat troop came marching, marching, marching
King George's men came marching, up to the old inn-door.
They said no word to the landlord, they drank his ale instead,
But they gagged his daughter and bound her to the foot of her narrow bed;
Two of them knelt at the casement, with muskets at their side!
there was death at every window, hell at one dark window;
For Bess could see, through the casement,
The road that he would ride.
They had tied her up to attention, with many a sniggering jest;
They had bound a musket beside her, with the barrel beneath her breast!
"now keep good watch!" And they kissed her.
She heard the dead man say
"Look for me by the moonlight, watch for me by the moonlight
I'll come to thee by the moonlight, though hell shall bar the way!"
She twisted her hands behind her, but all the knots held good!
She writhed her hands till her fingers were wet with sweat or blood!
They stretched and strained in the darkness and the hours crawled by like years!
Till, now, on the stroke of midnight, cold, on the stroke of midnight,
The tip of one finger touched it! The trigger at least was hers!
Tlot-tlot! Had they heard it? The horses hoofs ring clear
Tlot-tlot, in the distance! Were they deaf that they did not hear?
Down the ribbon of moonlight, over the brow of the hill,
The highwayman came riding, riding, riding!
The red-coats looked to their priming!
She stood up straight and still!
Tlot in the frosty silence! Tlot, in the echoing night!
Nearer he came and nearer! Her face was like a light!
Her eyes grew wide for a moment! She drew one last deep breath,
Then her finger moved in the moonlight, her musket shattered the moonlight,
Shattered her breast in the moonlight and warned him with her death.
He turned; he spurred to the west; he did not know she stood
bowed, with her head o'er the musket, drenched with her own red blood!
Not till the dawn he heard it; his face grew grey to hear
How Bess, the landlord's daughter, the landlord's black-eyed daughter,
Had watched for her love in the moonlight, and died in the darkness there.
And back, he spurred like a madman, shrieking a curse to the sky
With the white road smoking behind him and his rapier brandished high!
Blood-red were the spurs in the golden noon; wine-red was his velvet coat,
when they shot him down on the highway, down like a dog on the highway,
And he lay in his blood on the highway, with the bunch of lace at his throat.
Still of a winter's night, they say, when the wind is in the trees,
When the moon is a ghostly galleon, tossed upon the cloudy seas,
When the road is a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor,
A highwayman comes riding, riding, riding,
A highwayman comes riding, up to the old inn-door.
Esta es la letra de "The Highwayman" de Loreena Mckennitt, quiza la cancion que mas me gusta no de ella si no en general. Al principio cuando no me molester en saber la letra me gustaba pero ahora me fascina. Es mas sin darme cuenta tengo un monton de canciones similares en mi reproductor. Lo que me hace pensar realmente me importa el amor? Siempre lo menosprecie pues lo consideraba una debilidad. Pensaba que era someterme a la voluntad de otro y soy demasiado orgulloso para ello. Sentimentalmente hablando soy un desastre y no se si estar orgulloso de ello. Pues ahora no se que hacer, estoy carente de objetivo en esta vida porque mi corazon esta muerto y la sangre ya no calienta mis venas. Me gustaria saber que se siente cuando se ama... parece tan bello.
Adios... sed felices los que podais pues la soledad no es tan bella como la idealizan
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No hace falta que lo digas, se te ve a la legua. Lo cierto es que Jota (alias cinturón negro) y yo estábamos comentándolo hará unas horas; se ha quedado impresionado por lo tenebroso de tus comentarios en mi blog. No soy quién para juzgar a nadie, sólo sé que por lo poco que te conozco no eres una persona que no desee amar, y si te has convencido de lo contrario es porque has tenido malas experiencias y eres demasiado orgulloso para admitir equivocarte otra vez.
ResponderEliminarRecuerda que amar no es someter tu voluntad a la de otro. Amar es dar sin esperar nada a cambio y recibir sin sentirte culpable, amar es olvidar tu ego, aprender a hacerte parte del otro y caminar juntos, sin someterse ni humillarse. El amor no implica sufrimiento, si no todo lo contrario, el amor te hace libre. Eso es amor y quien lo probó lo sabe. Pero el amor no ha de tener miedo. Y quien no se ama a sí mismo, no puede amar a otra persona.
Tal vez necesitas pasar un tiempo a solas con la única persona que puede amarte incondicionalmente y a la que quizá no valoras lo suficiente: tú mismo.
Siento el retraso en responder.
ResponderEliminarA veces me paso de melodramatico, perdon por la impresion dada. Lo peor de todo es que no te haces una idea de lo acertada que estas...
Y que si todos mis amigos me dan un toque de atencion quizas sea hora de cambiar.