Eleanor Rigby

Às vezes demoramos para perceber o valor de coisas que estão sempre ali, na nossa cara...

Eleanor Rigby, dos Beatles, por exemplo. Conheço a música desde criança e nunca tinha prestado atenção à sua letra. Hoje, pesquisando algo na internet, acabei caindo numa página que tinha sua letra e lendo-a pude perceber que a qualidade da música ultrapassa a melodia, os arranjos instrumentais, o coro de vozes, e recai sobre sua letra.

Seguem a música e, abaixo, a letra.

Beatles - Eleanor Rigby


ELEANOR RIGBY
(Paul McCartney)

Ah, look at all the lonely people!
Ah, look at all the lonely people!

Eleanor Rigby picks up the rice in the church
Where a wedding has been
Lives in a dream
Waits at the window
Wearing a face that she keeps in a jar by the door
Who is it for?

All the lonely people
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong?

Father Mckenzie, writing the words of a sermon
That no one will hear
No one comes near
Look at him working, darning his socks in the night
When there´s nobody there
What does he care?

All the lonely people
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong?

Ah, look at all the lonely people!
Ah, look at all the lonely people!

Eleanor Rigby died in the church
And was buried along with her name
Nobody came
Father Mckenzie wiping the dirt from his hands
As he walks from the grave
No one was saved




Bonus Track: A música em versão instrumental.

Eleanor Rigby - The Beatles