A Janela

(na janela de alguém...) - Portugal 2008

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;
None but ourselves can free our mind.
Wo! Have no fear for atomic energy,
'Cause none of them-a can-a stop-a-the time
How long shall they kill our prophets,
While we stand aside and look?
Yes, some say it's just a part of it:
We've got to fulfil the book.
Won't you help to sing
These songs of freedom?
'Cause all I ever had:
Redemption songs
All I ever had:
Redemption songs:
These songs of freedom,
Songs of freedom.

"Redemption Song"´is the last track on Bob Marley's ninth Island music album, Uprising. At the time he wrote the song, circa 1979, Marley already had been diagnosed with the cancer that later was to take his life. According to Rita Marley, he was already secretly in a lot of pain and dealt with his own mortality, a feature that is clearly apparent in the album, particularly in this song. (in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redemption_Song)

Encontrei esta imagem numa janela de alguém, que desconheço, quando ia a passar na rua e olhei para cima, por acaso. Não sei se serve apenas de cortinado... mas gosto da ideia de associar o Bob Marley e a sua passagem por cá e toda a sua obra com a alegoria da janela. Como se o seu trabalho e a forma como ainda hoje influencia gerações fosse realmente uma janela, um foco de liberdade e inspiração.