venerdì 11 novembre 2016

In memoria di un grande


If you are the dealer, I'm out of the game
If you are the healer, it means I'm broken and lame
If thine is the glory then mine must be the shame
You want it darker
We kill the flame

Magnified, sanctified, be thy holy name
Vilified, crucified, in the human frame
A million candles burning for the help that never came
You want it darker

Hineni, hineni
I'm ready, my lord

There's a lover in the story But the story's still the same
There's a lullaby for suffering And a paradox to blame
But it's written in the scriptures And it's not some idle claim
You want it darker
We kill the flame

They're lining up the prisoners And the guards are taking aim
I struggled with some demons They were middle class and tame
I didn't know I had permission to murder and to maim
You want it darker

Hineni, hineni
I'm ready, my lord

Magnified, sanctified, be thy holy name
Vilified, crucified, in the human frame
A million candles burning for the love that never came
You want it darker
We kill the flame

If you are the dealer, let me out of the game
If you are the healer, I'm broken and lame
If thine is the glory, mine must be the shame
You want it darker

Hineni,
hineni Hineni,
hineni
I'm ready, my lord
Hineni Hineni,
hineni Hineni





Le parole di questo Halleluyah sono in buona parte improvvisate.
Questa è la versione recepita dalla storia: 

Now I've heard there was a secret chord
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you dont really care for music, do you?
It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth
The minor falls, the major lifts
The baffled king composing Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you
She tied you to a kitchen chair
She broke your throne, and she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Maybe I've been here before
I know this room, I've walked this floor
I used to live alone before I knew you
I've seen your flag on the marble arch
love is not a victory march
Its a cold and its a broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

You say I took the Name in vain
I dont even know the Name
But if I did, well really, what's it to you?
There's a blaze of light in every word
It doesnt matter which you heard
The holy or the broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

I did my best, but it wasn't much
I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch
I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you
And even though it all went wrong
I'll stand before the Lord of song
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Hallelujah...

martedì 1 novembre 2016

Rimetti a noi i nostri debiti. O attualità di una scelta per la povertà volontaria.


Volume del debito contratto fra il 1999 e il 2016 a livello mondiale in percentuale del prodotto interno lordo (scala sinistra). 
La scala a destra (l'unità di misura è miglia di miliardi di dollari) si riferisce all'area in grigio e corrisopnde alla sommatoria delle diverse categorie di debito, indicate nel grafico con una linea colorata: 
rosso: industria non-finanziaria
giallo: industria finanziaria
verde: Stati
blu: debito privato

fonte (in tedesco): http://www.nzz.ch/finanzen/fonds/fehlgeleitete-notenbankpolitik-toxische-verschuldung-ld.125313

Anche una piccolissima correzione dei tassi d'interesse, oggi tendenti a zero, avrà conseguenze drammatiche su questa massa di debiti. Fine del consumismo.