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Spanish Recommended of the Week: Charly García (Influencia)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfMhHi8Jf0A

Howdy! This one´s from the master of Rock in Spanish, the one and only Charly García, from Buenos Aires, Argentina. He´s a musical genius, who majored as a conservatory teacher at age 12! Despite his tremendous musical skills and his outstanding career, Charly is a drug addict and he has had many problems because of his condition. He went to rehab and he´s a bit better now, but now his body is paying the consequences of his abuses, and he´s being treated with psychiatric medication (It would be "medication" or "medications" depending on the amount) which causes him some problems when speaking, his motion abilities motor abilities (this would be a more technical word) are not the best, and of course he´s far away from how he was back in the old days as a performer, although his genius mind remains intact. He´s the author of many beautiful songs with astonishing melodies and profound lyrics, which have become hymns in South American rock. A rebel, an artist, a poet, a fighter, a madman, AN IDOL!!!! This tune is about an evil presence he comes in contact with down in his troubled soul, which might reffer (refer) to his drug addiction, frightening yet pleasant for him back in those days, one of his worst stages (moments/periods of his life). This video clip has an alternate vocal version which contains some spoken things I´ll translate in parenthesis. The red scribbles at the beginning and the end of the video stand for Say No More, his battle-cry. Here you go:

Influence
I can see and say and feel: something has changed, it´s not strange for me. I won´t run nor escape from my destiny, I don´t thing in danger. If it was made for me I have to know it, but seeing is very difficult, something controls my being. In the bottom of me I see fear and I see suspicion with my new fascination. I don´t know well what it is, you may say "it´s inctuitions, true alerts". I must trust myself, I have to know it, but seeing is very difficult, if something controls my being. I can see and say and feel my life sleep under your influence. A part of me says "STOP! (Wow,but the other one says), you went too far, I can´t contain it"(so...?) I try to resist and in the end it´s not a problem, what a pleasure this pain is! If I were another being, I would not understand it, but seeing is very difficult, something controls my being. This strange influence! (I´m pulling the strings. Vanguard is like this. My caprice is law. The entry is for free, the exit... we´ll see. I´m the emperor of the universe, I´m pulling the strings) Couldn´t fit the spanish lyrics, sorry.You can google them,though.Thanx4corrc