How the Heart
Approaches
What it Yearns
(2018)

In the blue light
Of the Belvedere Motel
Watching as the television burns
How the heart approaches what it yearns

In a fever
I distinctly hear your voice
Emerging from a dream, your voice returns
How the heart approaches what it yearns

After the rain on the Interstate
Headlights slide past the moon
A bone-weary traveler waits
By the side of the road
Where's he going?

Headlights slide past the moon
I roll in your arms
And your voice is the heat of the night

In a phone booth
In some downtown bar and grill
Rehearsing what I'll say, my coin returns
How the heart approaches what it yearns
How the heart approaches what it yearns

 


Piano: Sullivan Fortner
Batería: Nate Smith
Bajo:
John Patitucci
Trompeta:
Wynton Marsalis

 

© 2018 Paul Simon (BMI)
Disco: In The Blue Light

Original: © 1980 Paul Simon (BMI)
Disco: One-Trick Pony


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Resumen de los cambios de la versión original a la version de 2018:

  • Wondering as the television burns → Watching as the television burns

  • Este cambio altera sutilmente el tono: de incertidumbre mental a observación pasiva.

  • Emerging from a dream, the dream returns → Emerging from a dream, your voice returns

    Se enfoca más en la otra persona, en vez de en el fenómeno del sueño en sí. Más emocional.

    Se elimina la línea "I dream we are lying on the top of a hill", con lo cual se pierde parte del marco onírico.

  • In a phone booth / In some local bar and grill → In a phone booth / In some downtown bar and grill

  • Cambio sutil que altera el escenario emocional: de lo pequeño a lo metropolitano.