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Not Ready to Make Nice

Dixie Chicks
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Queste tre “pollastrelle del sud” non sono solo belle e brave, ma pure toste!
Questa canzone racconta di quando nel 2003 la loro carriera rischiò di essere seriamente compromessa e le loro stesse vite furono minacciate dal violento attacco che subirono da parte di gruppi di ultra-conservatori. Cos’avevano combinato ‘ste tre belle “gallinelle”? In apertura di un concerto a Londra, loro, texane ed alfiere di quel genere country che nel profondo sud americano è troppo spesso associato alla tradizione “Diopatria&bandiera”, si erano permesse di dire come la pensavano circa l’invasione dell’Iraq da parte delle truppe di Bush, iniziata solo qualche giorno prima. Dal palco Natalie Maines aveva detto: “Giusto perché lo sappiate, ci vergogniamo che il presidente degli Stati Uniti venga dal Texas”. Una frase chiara e forte che costò parecchio alle Dixie Chicks: furono boicottate dalla maggior parte delle radio specializzate, si videro rescindere il contratto pubblicitario con la Lipton, caddero nelle vendite a causa dell’allontanamento di molti fans di fede repubblicana, ricevettero molteplici minacce di morte (“Fareste meglio a stare zitte e cantare, o vi uccideremo”) e furono più volte aggredite e insultate durante i concerti, come quando furono affrontate da una giovane madre che urlava alla figlioletta di pochi anni: “Mandale a fare in culo!”.
La vicenda è anche raccontata in un documentario del 2006 intitolato, significativamente, “Shut Up and Sing”, realizzato dalla pluripremiata grande regista americana Barbara Kopple, quella di “Harlan County U.S.A.” per intenderci.
Forgive, sounds good
Forget, I’m not sure I could
They say time heals everything
But I’m still waiting

I’m through with doubt
There’s nothing left for me to figure out
I’ve paid a price
And I’ll keep paying

I’m not ready to make nice
I’m not ready to back down
I’m still mad as hell and
I don’t have time to go round and round and round
It’s too late to make it right
I probably wouldn’t if I could
‘Cause I’m mad as hell
Can’t bring myself to do what it is you think I should

I know you said
Can’t you just get over it
It turned my whole world around
And I kind of like it

I made my bed and I sleep like a baby
With no regrets and I don’t mind sayin’
It’s a sad sad story when a mother will teach her
Daughter that she ought to hate a perfect stranger
And how in the world can the words that I said
Send somebody so over the edge
That they’d write me a letter
Sayin’ that I better shut up and sing
Or my life will be over

I’m not ready to make nice
I’m not ready to back down
I’m still mad as hell and
I don’t have time to go round and round and round
It’s too late to make it right
I probably wouldn’t if I could
‘Cause I’m mad as hell
Can’t bring myself to do what it is you think I should

I’m not ready to make nice
I’m not ready to back down
I’m still mad as hell and
I don’t have time to go round and round and round
It’s too late to make it right
I probably wouldn’t if I could
‘Cause I’m mad as hell
Can’t bring myself to do what it is you think I should

What it is you think I should

Forgive, sounds good
Forget, I’m not sure I could
They say time heals everything
But I’m still waiting

Contributed by Bartleby - 2010/12/9 - 08:42




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