Reo Libre Unpplugged: The Bakery

Hace un par de años un amigo me pasó las canciones del Fluorescent Adolescent, el single de los Arctic Monkeys que había salido ese 2007. Y aunque creo que la canción homónima "Fluorescent Adolescent" es la mejor canción de esa placa, "The Bakery" tiene cierto aire nostálgico y romántico que lo arrastra a uno a los momentos en los que uno se topa con una chica a la que no se atreve a hablarle por una timidez acezante y esta simplemente pasa de largo... "La historia de mi vida", pensarán algunos.



En la web da vueltas una versión acústica de esta canción. Hoy, precisamente, esta canción me viene muy bien, mientras reviso algunos detalles que tengo que ajustar en mi cabeza revuelta.

I wish you would have smiled in the bakery,
or sat on a tatty seattee,
at a mutual friends gathering,
And the more you keep on looking the more it's hard to take,
love we're in stale mate.
To never meet is surely where we're bound,
there's one in every town,
just there to grind you down.

I wish I would have seen you in the post office,
well maybe I did and I missed it,
too busy with the mind on clever lines.
Why not the rounders pitch or the canteen?
You're slacking love, where have you been?
you had to go and wait until tonight

...to give me the invite
don't worry its alright

I wish I would have seen you in the arcade,
sipping on a lemonade,
In a paper cup and chewing on the straw
And I wish I'd seen you in the bakery,
But if I'd seen you in the bakery,
You probably wouldn't have seen me.

Es cierto, probablemente, no me hubiera visto.