PEROLA

É uma canção escrita no feminino, por uma cantora/compositora da qual há muito não tenho notícias (e que Peter Gabriel revelou ao mundo quando a foi buscar para fazer as vezes de Sinéad O'Connor na sua digressão Secret World de 1992/93). Mas, se olharmos para o que "Pearl" exprime de universal, está aqui muito do que eu próprio tenho andado (e ainda estou) a viver ao longo de 2005. And David will understand.

Humility on Bleecker Street
exposed my faults until I'm left defeated
it's been three years into this relationship
this is longer than I ever could commit

but I feel
I'm near
but I feel
my fear

I'm standing at the edge of another precipice in life
gotta face my steppenwolf
gotta drag you through the mud
when I get there I will see myself
I will look for strength within
I will be a better woman
hang in there baby, I'm the grain of sand
becoming the pearl

there are no role models in rock'n'roll
no women who could have it all
the long career, the man, the happy family
and here I stand and God I do demand it

and I feel
I'm near
but I feel
my fear

I'm standing at the edge of another precipice in life
gotta face my steppenwolf
gotta drag you through the mud
when I get there I will see myself
I will look for strength within
I will be a better woman
hang in there baby, I'm the grain of sand
becoming the pearl

it's dark in here
don't know who I am
memories come
I'm wading through the moon
evil side
wants to drag me down
will power
God, please give me some
(I'm hanging onto hope now)

I'm standing at the edge of another precipice in life
baggage from my family
going back to therapy
I will kneel, be humble, tow the weight
I will look for strength within
I will be a better woman
hang in there baby, I'm the grain of sand
becoming the pearl.

— Paula Cole, "Pearl", in "Amen" (Imago/Warner Bros., 1999)