Here es un álbum de Alicia Keys, publicado en 2016 por RCA. El disco incluye 16 canciones, entre ellas «The Beginning (Interlude)», «The Gospel», «Pawn It All» y «Elaine Brown (Interlude)».
Sobre el álbum
El álbum "Here" ocupa un lugar fundamental en la discografía de Alicia Keys, siendo su trabajo más crudo, político y socialmente consciente. Con este disco, la artista se despoja de todo artificio y glamour para, en su lugar, entregar una obra de una honestidad brutal, centrada en sus raíces neoyorquinas y en temas como la identidad, el racismo y la justicia social. Por consiguiente, el sonido es minimalista y directo, con un gran protagonismo del piano, el beat del hip-hop y la voz sin filtros de Keys.
Las canciones a menudo se entrelazan con interludios hablados que refuerzan el carácter conceptual y narrativo del álbum. Por esta razón, "Here" no es un disco de singles fáciles; es una declaración artística y un poderoso comentario sobre el mundo contemporáneo. Es una obra valiente y necesaria que muestra a una Alicia Keys más comprometida y relevante que nunca, utilizando su música como una herramienta de cambio.
Listado de Canciones
- The Beginning (Interlude)
Letra
I feel like history on the turntables Old school to new school Like nothing ever been realer On the history of the turntables I'm the mystery of what's inside the speaker cables I'm Nina Simone in the park and Harlem in the dark I'm the musical to the project fables I'm the words scratched out on the record label I'm the wind when the record spins I'm the dramatic static before the song begins I'm the erratic energy that gets in your skin And if you don't let me in I'm the shot in the air when the party ends - The Gospel
Letra
Uh, yeah, okay Sing So we all got children, products of the ghetto Momma cooked us soup, daddy did the yelling Uncle was a drunk, cousin was a felon When he got pitched, he told them he wasn't tellin' Auntie was a cook, her husband was a crook Cause every job he had they be payin' him off the books Ghetto university, knowledge is all it took In a tenement I was listenin' to the hook Change gon' come, the spirit of Sam Cook When the feds comin', everybody get shook Now we doin' life like Eddie Murphy and Martin On the chain gang, i was singing into the coffin The roaches and the rats, heroin and the cracks Couldn't blame me, I'm just giving the facts Tryna hit the top, the bottom ain't where it's at Everybody got a past but you can never go back Oh, oh, oh, oh Oh, oh, oh, oh Oh, oh, oh, oh Sing Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah (yeah) Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah (yeah) Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah (yeah) Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah (yeah) Tellin' you like it is, how we ever gon' live? If we ain't gettin' money, how we feedin' the kids? It's a revolving door, where brothers be doin' bids I know it sound wrong but the door will be what it is Survival of the fittest, this poor girl the illest Broke parents and black cats give me heebie-geebies Life seems hard but nothin' ever comes easy Whatever's in the dark, can always become the light If you ain't in a battle, how you gon' win the fight? Gotta speak the truth when I'm up in the booth The streets be flyin' birds but they don't be on the roof Poverty is a pain like you pullin' a tooth Told the streets don't let me go like I'm Bishop in Juice The roaches and the rats, heroin and the cracks Couldn't blame me, I'm just giving the facts Tryna hit the top, the bottom ain't where it's at Everybody got a past but you can never go back Oh, oh, oh, oh Oh, oh, oh, oh Oh, oh, oh, oh Sing Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah (yeah) Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah (yeah) (Gotta sing) Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah (yeah) Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah (yeah) (She's a king) Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah (yeah) Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah (yeah) Let me hear you say, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Say yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah - Pawn It All
Letra
Yeah, ah Yeah, ah Yeah, ah Yeah, ah I will pawn you my watch I will pawn you my chain I will pawn you these gold and diamond rings 'Cause I need it so bad I would give you everything Just so I could start my life over again Sometimes you gotta let it go Just to make it possible Sometimes you gotta do it Be willing to lose it Freedom has no price, you know Thinking how we gonna make it now How we gonna feed the babies now We gonna make it through it God gonna see to it Just get up and do it now I will pawn you my watch I will pawn you my chain I will pawn you these gold and diamond rings 'Cause I need it so bad I would give you everything Just so I could start my life over again Get on up (hey), get on up (hey) Get on up (hey), get on up (hey), get on up (hey) See, I learned the hard way Now I'm doing it in my way 'Cause life is too short to fall in New York Can't get up and get away So I gotta let it all go Start back from zero 'Cause I've give it up, I don't give a fuck As long is my hero I will pawn you my watch I will pawn you my chain I will pawn you these gold and diamond rings 'Cause I need it so bad I would give you everything Just so I could start my life over again I will pawn you my watch I will pawn you my chain I will pawn you these gold and diamond rings 'Cause I need it so bad I would give you everything Just so I could start my life over again Get on up (hey), get on up (hey) Get on up (hey), get on up (hey), get on up (hey) - Elaine Brown (Interlude)
Letra
Can I do one more really quick? So he said blow black mother, black mother He always announce the title black mother This is rap, this is hip hop, this is all that, from the street How you from the street? Black mother and I must confess That I still breath but you are not yet complete What could justify my prying? Stop forgive my coward's hard for blame me [?] while we sleeping a deep-deep And I be days and days and fight especially for my hair, black mother I [?] you [?] rapes, heart aches, sweat, and tears But I wear on siege night, dark and gloom, a rose I wear to honor you And when I follow rose in hand You will be free and amen for slave of [?] can't balance out the two damn flies I'd rather be without the shame A bullet lodged within my brain, black mother - Kill Your Mama
Letra
Shame on us, on your sons and your daughters Dig all your gold and we poisoned all your waters Every piece of our soul is for sale Now they bought us Think we know it all Then look where it got us Oh, mama, mama Oh, mama, mama You're crying to the wind Trying to play God People fucking with genetics All that you have given and we only disrespected The rate that we’re going premature Armageddon That's what gonna happen if we let it Oh, mama, mama Oh, mama, mama You're crying to the wind Is there any savin' us We've become so dangerous Is there any change in us Even for the sake of love How you gonna kill your mama When only mama is gonna love you to the grave Killing our selves Falling down with the sickness Money is the king It's a dirty bloody business There will be no trial But the child will always witness If we are in love with hell Why the hell would heaven visit Oh, mama, mama Oh, mama, mama You're crying to the wind When mama gets the belt you gon' wish you didn't do it Had your chance for redemption But you fucking blew it Now the weather is changing it and the hurricane is moving Right in your direction What direction are you choosing Oh, mama, mama Oh, mama, mama Forgive us for your pain Is there any savin' us We've become so dangerous Is there any change in us Even for the sake of love How you gonna kill your mama When only mama is gonna love you to the grave How you gonna kill your mama How you gonna kill your mama - She Don´t Really Care 1 Luv
- Elevate (Interlude)
Letra
I already know how to touch you, I already know Because you gotta always add on You can't bring, can't just do what was done You gotta always add on We always build, we always grow We elevate, by elevation So, the way I touch this now, it's just gotta be like Like the gods is like, yeah Yeah, yeah (Wow I think that's a really dope perspective) She was risen when I was telling her stuff, oh I can go on too - Illusion of Bliss
Letra
You know, right now I miss someone that I love Or fell in love with I don't wanna cry or nothing but I'mma just get straight to the story I'm a 29 year old addict What would you know? What would you do? If you had no control over what you pursue? Talk yourself, tell yourself, baby "I'm better than this" All that I'm fighting I'm the one to resist So I persist Like a bottomless kiss An illusion of bliss An illusion of bliss So I persist Like a bottomless kiss An iIllusion of bliss An iIllusion of bliss Hey, living in prison of blood and flesh An easy way out is this high, I confess So watcha lookin' at What do you wanna see You can't save me, baby I don't wanna it no way So I persist Like a bottomless kiss An illusion of bliss An illusion of bliss So I persist Like a bottomless kiss An illusion of bliss Is it my life? Ain't no easy road I don't know which way to go Won't somebody see me when I can't see myself Won't somebody listen before I need help I'm sick of being judged I'm sing of being sick Sick of being high, sick of being low Sick of all the lies putting on the show So I persist So I persist Like a bottomless kiss An illusion of bliss An illusion of bliss I don't wanna be a fallen angel I don't wanna be a fallen angel Don't say I'm gone, gone I don't wanna be a fallen angel Don't say I'm lost, lost I don't wanna be a fallen angel Don't say I'm gone, gone I don't wanna be a fallen angel Don't say I'm lost, lost I don't wanna be a fallen angel - Blended Family (What You Do for Love)
- Work on It
Letra
Work on it, work on it Work on it, baby Oh baby, some may think that we moved too fast But I know you and you know me Baby, that's what makes it last Darling, so many lies were spread about us Oh, that's the heartache, that's the heartache That makes us build all the trust I know some people like to say That the easiest way is to fake it We gonna make it if we try Gotta promise not to abuse it If you use it, don't lose it or break it 'Cause we gonna make it You and I When they see us coming they'll say Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh When they see us coming they'll say Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh Some days are hard There ain't no easy way No matter how we try Nobody is perfect But if we just love each other through it all that makes it worth it I know some people try to say that The easiest way is to fake it We gonna make it if we try Gotta promise not to abuse it If you use it, don't lose it or break it We gonna make it You and I When they hear us coming they'll say Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh When they hear us coming they'll say Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh When they feel us coming they'll say Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh When they feel us coming they'll say Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh Oh, we gonna work on it, baby Me and you, we gonna work on it, baby - Cocoa Butter (Cross & Pic Interlude)
- Girl Can´t Be Herself
- You Glow (Interlude)
Letra
I heard this lil girl in PS257 yelled out one day to the teacher And said: That shit is whack And she stood up in the classroom and walked up from the back And stood in front of the classroom where her history was attacked and said You are not niggers As a matter of fact you are not really even black I'll prove it to you I'll put every last one of y'all in a row Put some Vasoline and baby oil in your face and look in the mirror Look my beloved, you glow - More Than We Know
Letra
Uh come on, yes (What y'all know about that? shit's hard) If I could breathe underwater Every fish would walk on land If I could fly in the sky baby Then wings would be on me If words could move mountains If I could swim the ocean without drownin' If there was pain without hurtin' Then the impossible has been found 'Cause baby we can do more than we know, more than we know And baby, baby, oh, there's more than we know, more than we know Yeah, yeah, if I could moonwalk on the moon I would glide to you baby I'd go to war like a platoon I'd be right there on the front lines No broken promises in the Promise Land Let's let freedom set us free again 'Cause baby we can do more than we know, more than we know And baby, baby, oh, there's more than we know, more than we know Uh, yeah, uh See if we just stayed on the ground Then we would never see the stars And if you're too afraid to walk in faith Then you will never know your heart And if we just stayed on the corner Then we would never see the world 'Cause baby there's no fate that you can't create 'Cause baby we can do more than we know, more than we know And baby, baby, oh, there's more than we know, more than we know Baby we can do more than we know, more than we know (Yeah darlin') 'Cause baby, baby, oh, there's more than we know, more than we know If we can believe baby Do you believe it baby Do you believe in me darlin'? (More than we know) Do you trust in me baby? When I tell you we can do it Let me show you we can do it We can go (More than we know) Oh, oh, oh, oh (More than we know) Woo-hoo, woo-hoo, woo-hoo, woo-hoo Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh Hey, hey, hey, put 'em back up around Hey, hey, hey More than we know 'Cause baby we can do more than we know - Where Do We Begin Now
Letra
What they're gonna do 'cause we're the same sex? And we’re spending all this time This could be the love we ain't made yet Even though it's on my mind We ain't even had a conversation But do you wanna testify? How will I know this love is strong? How would it tells when it goes wrong? Where do we begin now? Where do we begin now? What will we tell our friends now? I had a dream about you last night Then it kinda blow my mind All I really know is that it feels right And I gotta live my life We ain't even had a conversation Let me be the first to testify How will I know this love is strong? How would it tells when it goes wrong? Where do we begin now? Where do we begin now? What will we tell our friends now? I'm gonna let you know, gonna let you know I'm gonna let you know I'm gonna let you know, gonna let you know I'm gonna let you know - Holy War
Letra
If war is holy and sex is obscene Then we got it twisted in this lucid dream Baptized in boundaries, schooled in sin Divided by difference, sexuality and skin So we can hate each other and fear each other We can build these walls between each other Baby, blow by blow and brick by brick Keep yourself locked in, yourself locked in We can hate each other and fear each other We can build these walls between each other Baby, blow by blow and brick by brick Keep yourself locked in, yourself locked Maybe we should love somebody Maybe we could care a little more Maybe we should love somebody Instead of polishing the bombs of holy war What if sex was holy and war was obscene And it wasn't twisted, what a wonderful dream Living for love, unafraid of the end Forgiveness is the only real revenge So we can heal each other and fill each other We can break these walls between each other Baby, blow by blow and brick by brick Keep yourself open, yourself open We can heal each other and fill each other We can break these walls between each other Baby, blow by blow and brick by brick Keep yourself open, yourself open Maybe we should love somebody Maybe we could care a little more Maybe we should love somebody Instead of polishing the bombs of holy war What if love is holy and hate is obscene We should give life to this beautiful dream Cause peace and love ain't so far If we nurse our wounds before they scar Nurse our wounds before they scar