Cats, uno de los mejores musicales de todos los tiempos. Lo compuso Andrew Lloyd Webber sobre un texto del poeta T.S. Elliot.
Entre sus canciones, esta: Memory, cantada por la vieja gata Grizabella rememorando tiempos mejores.
http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=cJHzoAmA8Ec
Me parece la más conmovedora y noble de las músicas elegíacas dedicadas al pasado como experiencia personal irreversible, aunque quizás la más famosa sea Yesteday de los Beatles.
Acompaño el vídeo con la letra oficial publicada en varios sitios de Internet, pero no coincide literalmente con la que se canta en este frgmento:
Daylight / See the dew on the sunflower / And a rose that is fading / Roses whither away / Like the sunflower / I yearn to turn my face to the dawn / I am waiting for the day . . .
Midnight / Not a sound from the pavement / Has the moon lost her memory? / She is smiling alone / In the lamplight / The withered leaves collect at my feet / And the wind begins to moan
Memory / All alone in the moonlight / I can smile at the old days / I was beautiful then / I remember the time I knew what happiness was / Let the memory live again
Every streetlamp / Seems to beat a fatalistic warning / Someone mutters / And the streetlamp gutters / And soon it will be morning
Daylight / I must wait for the sunrise / I must think of a new life / And I musn’t give in / When the dawn comes / Tonight will be a memory too / And a new day will begin
Burnt out ends of smoky days / The stale cold smell of morning / The streetlamp dies, another night is over / Another day is dawning
Touch me / It’s so easy to leave me / All alone with the memory / Of my days in the sun / If you touch me / You’ll understand what happiness is
Look / A new day has begun