JUEVES - LYRICS ("River of dreams")

- River of dreams – Billy Joel

In the middle of the night

I go walking in my sleep

from the mountains of faith

to a river so deep.

I must be looking for something,

something sacred I lost,

but the river is wide

and it's too hard to cross.

And even though I know the river is wide,

I walk down every evening and I stand on the shore

and try to cross to the opposite side

so I can finally find out what I've been looking for.

In the middle of the night

I go walking in my sleep

through the valley of fear

to a river so deep,

and I've been searching for something

taken out of my soul,

something I would never lose,

something somebody stole.

I don't know why I go walking at night,

but now I'm tired and I don't want to walk anymore.

I hope it doesn't take the rest of my life

until I find what it is that I've been looking for.

In the middle of the night

I go walking in my sleep

through the jungle of doubt

to a river so deep.

I know I'm searching for something,

something so undefined

that it can only be seen

by the eyes of the blind

in the middle of the night.

I'm not sure about a life after this.

God knows I've never been a spiritual man,

baptized by the fire, I wade into the river

that runs to the promised land.

In the middle of the night

I go walking in my sleep

through the desert of truth

to the river so deep.

We all end in the ocean,

we all start in the streams,

we're all carried along

by the river of dreams

in the middle of the night

- Notas:

El cantante y compositor de esta canción, Billy Joel, siempre se ha declarado ateo, de hecho, dice que esta canción estaba en su cabeza un día cuando se despertó y al final no le quedó más remedio que escribirla.

La canción tiene muchas referencias bíblicas como “the promised land” (“la Tierra Prometida”), baptized by the fire (“bautizados con fuego”), etc. etc, y parece tratarse de una búsqueda de la fe o del sentido a lo que haya más allá de esta vida que un ateo se hace en un momento de crisis de fe personal. En esencia es pues la búsqueda de la fe, o el plantearse su sentido, en un momento de crisis espiritual del protagonista de la canción.
- 1. “…wade…” = “To wade” es una forma de caminar muy especial, porque es la que se hace cuando uno se mueve por un rio o lugar con agua que nos llegue hasta más allá de la rodilla, como la cintura, etc. Si hacemos glu glu glu no es “to wade” sino “to drown” (“ahogarse”). Se usa también para hablar de caminar por barro u otras sustancias semilíquidas que hagan difícil y lento el avanzar.