A verdade da mentira

Já provavelmente todos a conhecem, mas vale a pena ler com atenção a letra de "Time To Pretend", a faixa de abertura (e primeiro single) de Oracular Spectacular, a auspiciosa estreia discográfica dos MGMT. Penso que era exactamente isto que todos aqueles que tentaram escrever sobre a vida de uma rockstar queriam dizer e não conseguiram. E estes tipos alcançaram o feito... fingindo, precisamente. É que quando Andrew VanWyngarden (voz e guitarra) escreveu os versos desta canção e Ben Goldwasser (teclas) a compôs ambos tinham acabado de entrar para o primeiro ano da faculdade, longe de imaginarem que eles próprios se tornariam nas estrelas que faziam de conta ser. Hoje, eles cantam a verdade que outrora foi mentira. E essa é a grande ironia de "Time To Pretend".

I'm feeling rough, I'm feeling raw, I'm in the prime of my life
Let's make some music, make some money, find some models for wives
I'll move to Paris, shoot some heroin and fuck with the stars
You man the island and the cocaine and the elegant cars

This is our decision to live fast and die young
We've got the vision, now let's have some fun
Yeah, it's overwhelming but what else can we do
Get jobs in offices and wake up for the morning commute?

Forget about our mothers and our friends
We were fated to pretend
To pretend
We were fated to pretend
To pretend

I'll miss the playgrounds and the animals and digging up worms
I'll miss the comfort of my mother and the weight of the world
I'll miss my sister, miss my father, miss my dog and my home
Yeah, I'll miss the boredom and the freedom and the time spent alone

But there is really nothing, nothing we can do
Love must be forgotten, life can always start up anew
The models will have children, we'll get a divorce
We'll find some more models, everything must run its course

We'll choke on our vomit and that will be the end
We were fated to pretend
To pretend
We were fated to pretend
To pretend

I said yeah, yeah, yeah
All right yeah, yeah, yeah
I said yeah, yeah, yeah
Ah yeah, yeah, yeah

"Time To Pretend" (Ao Vivo no Later With Jools Holland)
MGMT