Hace algo más de 12 años, Grange ‘Lady Haig’ Rutan me escribió una carta postal (eran los tiempos de la larga fase -3 de la vieja “normalidad”) en la que, además de enviar regalitos para mí y mi sobrina Celia, me escribía una bebopiana poética sobre el Jazz y la Luz. En 2007 nos invitaron a Carlos Carrasco y a mí a actuar en el Día de la Música en la Sala Matisse de Valencia, y yo cambié la segunda parte de nuestro tema “Llévame Allí” añadiendo sobre la marcha las palabras de Grange. About 10 years ago Grange Lady Haig Rutan wrote me such beautiful words on my work, and not only this but she also wrote me some lyrics to add to one of my songs –”Llévame Allí” (Take Me There)-.
These are my original lyrics I sing before adding Grange Rutan’s words:
LLÉVAME ALLÍ (Take me there)
It’s time to leave
Where are you going to take me?
I want to be taken
and never leave here
It’s the rain on your skin
Scents that keep passing by
Take me there
any day and beyond
To the silence of before
the calm and the colour
Now the door is closed
Only the voice remains
and the rain on your skin
Take me there
Where you are taken and returned
If you don’t know me better
it’s because I’m inside of you
Take me there
Where there are no doors to be closed
Where sounds the music with soul
Baden Powell, Johnny Lee
Joao Gilberto, Buddy Holly
Take me
Take me, take me, take me back
Take me, take me, take me back
The colour of the sea
A morning of hangover
The salty voice
The voice of jazz
Chet Baker
When lights are low
Almost blue
All the things you are
September in the rain
Take me, take me there
To the rumpled sheets
To the familiar scent
Buy me an ice cream, buy me an ice cream
The passing and being taken
Take me, take me back
Take me back
Before today
Before yesterday
Any day and beyond…
And THESE are the words she Grange wrote for me and I performed live in a jazz club in Valencia, Spain, with musician Carlos Carrasco on guitar and harp:
“Where? Where is the Light when we need it? Where is the Light?
When we really need it? The Light. Where is the Light?
We are trail blazzing to be free
Get up, stand up, for our right to be,
Whatever that means
Where, where is the Light when we need it?
You are, you are the Light, for
We are the Light, oh, you, you…
Who is going to turn the light on?
Because we really need it
The Light, yeah, the Light
It’s diner time, what are you cooking tonight?
Where is The Light, umm
Good night…
My Spanish Light… My Spanish Light…
The Light… Who is going to carry the Light when the Light is busy?
I will, you will, I will…”
LLÉVAME ALLI. YOU TUBE LIVE
