Dialogue (Part I & II)

Mais uma música das minhas favoritas do Chicago. “Dialogue (Part I & II)” foi gravada em 1972 e, como o nome diz, é realmente um diálogo entre Peter Cetera e Terry Kath. Kath faz várias perguntas sobre a atualidade, coisas sobre guerra, fome, idéias, educação, fome, e Cetera responde sempre de forma a parecer que é um alienado e que acha que está tudo indo muito bem. No fim, Kath acaba se convencendo de que as coisas são como o outro diz e se acalma, ao que Cetera diz “se você tivesse essa minha visão, sua realidade seria totalmente deturpada”. É uma música interessante e mais um achado quase “arqueológico” de um vídeo antigo na internet. Este, especificamente, foi gravado em 1975.

DIALOGUE (Part I & II) [Robert Lamm]

Terry: Are you optimistic 'bout the way that things are going?
Peter: No, I never ever think of it at all.
Terry: Don't you ever worry when you see what's going down?
Peter: Well, I try to mind my business, that is, no business at all.
Terry: When it's time to function as a feeling human being, will your Bachelor of Arts help you get by?
Peter: I hope to study further, a few more years or so; I also hope
to keep a steady high.
Terry: Will you try to change things, use the power that you have, the power of a million new ideas?
Peter: What is this power you speak of and this need for things to change? I always thought that everything was fine... Everything is fine.
Terry: Don't you feel repression just closing in around?
Peter: No, the campus here is very, very free.
Terry: Don't it make you angry the way war is dragging on?
Peter: Well, I hope the President knows what he's into, I don't know, I just don't know.
Terry: Don't you see starvation in the city where you live, all the needless hunger all the needless pain?
Peter: I haven't been there lately, the country is so fine, but my neighbors don't seem hungry 'cause they haven't got the time.

Terry: Thank you for the talk, you know, you really eased my mind; I was troubled by the shapes of things to come.
Peter: Well, if you had my outlook your feelings would be numb, you'd always think
that everything was fine... Everything was fine...

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