V(ale)ntinamente

No, non la persona più allegra del mondo.

Richard Thompson è uno che a 19 anni scriveva “There’d come the day we’d all be making songs/Or finding better words“.

A 20 “helpless and slow/And you don’t have anywhere to go“.

Sempre a 20 “Farewell, farewell to you who would hear/You lonely travelers all“.

A 22 “Was there ever a winter so cold and so sad“.

A 24 “My dreams have withered and died“.

A 25 “I’m sick and weary of being alone“.

A 26 “This old house is falling down around my ears/I’m drowning in a river of my tears“.

A 32 “Keep the blind down on the window/Ah, keep the pain on the inside“.

Potremmo continuare a lungo. Ancora alla soglia dei 70, canta “I’m longing for a storm to blow through town/And blow these sad old buildings down“.

Non la persona più allegra del mondo, ma un genio.