Oggi vi parlo di un gruppo musicale folk-rock canadese che ha avuto il suo più grande successo negli anni ’90, parlo dei “Crash Test Dummies“, i quali nel 1993 pubblicarono il loro secondo CD “God Shuffled His Feet“, il cui genere si può definire rock alternativo.

Ho amato questo CD e credo di averlo consumato a furia di ascoltarlo, ogni suo singolo brano era potenzialmente una hit dal mio punto di vista ed è diventato famoso principalmente per la canzone dal curioso titolo “Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm“.

Per voi però ho scelto il brano che ha dato il titolo al CD, il cui video è piuttosto particolare (come gli altri dei singoli di questo album), in cui c’è un gruppo di persone radunate in un teatro per sentire Dio parlare. Ma alla fine si scopre che quest’ultimo è solo una marionetta manovrata da un uomo anziano dietro le quinte 🙂

#crashtestdummies #1993 #unacanzonealgiorno


After seven days
He was quite tired so God said
“Let there be a day
Just for picnics, with wine and bread”
He gathered up some people he had made
Created blankets and laid back in the shade
The people sipped their wine
And what with God there, they asked him questions
Like, do you have to eat
Or get your hair cut in heaven?
And if your eye got poked out in this life
Would it be waiting up in heaven with your wife?
God shuffled his feet and glanced around at them
The people cleared their throats and stared right back at him
So he said “once there was a boy
Who woke up with blue hair
To him it was a joy
Until he ran out into the warm air
He thought of how his friend would come to see
And would they laugh, or had he got some strange disease?”
God shuffled his feet and glanced around at them
The people cleared their throats and stared right back at him
The people sat waiting
Out on their blankets in the garden
But God said nothing
So someone asked him “I beg your pardon
I’m not quite clear about what you just spoke
What that a parable, or a very subtle joke?”
God shuffled his feet and glanced around at them
The people cleared their throats and stared right back at him
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Fonte: LyricFind
Compositori: Brad Roberts
Testo di God Shuffled His Feet © Universal Music Publishing Group