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Rating: Introduction:
Wave was the first album I ever bought. September '79, Bologna, Patti Smith, my first "international" concert. Will it mean something to me? Obviously, the first album and the first concert are like the first love. So, I went back and appreciated three monumental albums that made history in the...(well, you decide the genre). Then shock, confusion, bewilderment. The priestess announces her retirement. And what do I do? Endless pondering over what once was. Then the miracle. Nine years later, Dream of Life comes out. And then heaps of criticism, negative reviews, detractors galore... the passionate rock poetess, having melancholically abandoned the utopian and ideological scene of the seventies, the American punk rock scene, the cultural movement of Chelsea H., has she gone insane? Dream of Life certainly doesn't offer the dirty basement sound, the angry and pained voice of the previous decade. It's a tender, intimate album, but right from the very first "People Have the Power," it exudes a lot of energy. Yes, people have the power, hahahahahahahah, demagogic, populist anthem, useless in a scene dominated by all the worst human values that have led to the current "people don't matter one bit." Extremely relevant song, damn it. Then there's Smith's voice, clean, pleasant, never so beautiful. Fred Sonic cleans up the sound, harmonious, pleasant guitar with non-trivial rhythms and far from predictable ballads. No need for track by track, the album flows seamlessly, inspired, in a serene, measured context, in my opinion in a word, artistic maturity. Mapplethorpe once again, but unfortunately for the last time, will sign the cover photo. An album not inferior to the previous ones. 5/5
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 People Have the Power (05:10)
People Have the Power
I was dreaming in my dreaming
of an aspect bright and fair
and my sleeping it was broken
but my dream it lingered near
in the form of shining valleys
where the pure air recognized
and my senses newly opened
I awakened to the cry
that the people / have the power
to redeem / the work of fools
upon the meek / the graces shower
it's decreed / the people rule
The people have the power
The people have the power
The people have the power
The people have the power
Vengeful aspects became suspect
and bending low as if to hear
and the armies ceased advancing
because the people had their ear
and the shepherds and the soldiers
lay beneath the stars
exchanging visions
and laying arms
to waste / in the dust
in the form of / shining valleys
where the pure air / recognized
and my senses / newly opened
I awakened / to the cry
Refrain
Where there were deserts
I saw fountains
like cream the waters rise
and we strolled there together
with none to laugh or criticize
and the leopard
and the lamb
lay together truly bound
I was hoping in my hoping
to recall what I had found
I was dreaming in my dreaming
god knows / a purer view
as I surrender to my sleeping
I commit my dream to you
Refrain
The power to dream / to rule
to wrestle the world from fools
it's decreed the people rule
it's decreed the people rule
LISTEN
I believe everything we dream
can come to pass through our union
we can turn the world around
we can turn the earth's revolution
we have the power
People have the power ...
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