If you have a friend on whom you think you can rely
You are a lucky man!
If you've found the reason to live on and not to die
You are a lucky man!
Preachers and poets and scholars don't know it,
Temples and statues and steeples won't show it,
If you've got the secret just try not to blow it
Stay a lucky man!
If you've found the meaning of the truth in this old world
You are a lucky man!
If knowledge hangs around your neck like pearls instead of chains
You are a lucky man!
Takers and fakers and talkers won't tell you.
Teachers and preachers will just buy and sell you.
When no one can tempt you with heaven or hell
You'll be a lucky man!
You are a lucky man!
If you've found the reason to live on and not to die
You are a lucky man!
Preachers and poets and scholars don't know it,
Temples and statues and steeples won't show it,
If you've got the secret just try not to blow it
Stay a lucky man!
If you've found the meaning of the truth in this old world
You are a lucky man!
If knowledge hangs around your neck like pearls instead of chains
You are a lucky man!
Takers and fakers and talkers won't tell you.
Teachers and preachers will just buy and sell you.
When no one can tempt you with heaven or hell
You'll be a lucky man!
inviata da Bartleby - 10/6/2011 - 14:14
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Canzone scritta dal tastierista degli Animals per la colonna sonora dell’omonimo film di Lindsay Anderson, il regista britannico celebre per questa ed altre (“This Sporting Life”, “If…”, “Britannia Hospital”,…) pellicole iconoclaste.
In “O Lucky Man!” Mike Travis, il ribelle già protagonista di “If…” e successivamente di “Britannia Hospital”, interpretato dall’inquietante Malcolm MacDowell – quello di “A Clockwork Orange”, per intenderci – ha apparentemente abbandonato il suo idealismo e si è gettato a capofitto sulla strada di un improbabile successo divenendo piazzista in una grande società d’importazione del caffè.
E sullo sfondo delle disavventure del protagonista, sorta di moderno Candido di Voltaire, scorre l’ipocrita e feroce Inghilterra degli anni 60, tutta intenta a preservare i vecchi fasti di superpotenza affinando le tecniche neocolonialiste moderne, fatte di controllo sulle fragili economie delle ex colonie e sul foraggiamento dei sanguinari dittatori che le amministrano per conto degli ex-dominatori.