Deep Dead Blue, Live at Meltdown es un álbum de Elvis Costello, publicado en 1995. El disco incluye 7 canciones, entre ellas «Weird Nightmare», «Love Field», «Shamed Into Love» y «Gigi».
Sobre el álbum
El álbum Deep Dead Blue, Live at Meltdown, de 1995, es una grabación en directo de un concierto muy especial, en el que Elvis Costello actúa a dúo con el legendario guitarrista de jazz Bill Frisell. Este trabajo es una obra de una intimidad y una sofisticación extraordinarias. Es una clase magistral de comunicación musical en su forma más pura.
El sonido del disco es minimalista y atmosférico. La guitarra de Frisell, con su característico estilo lleno de matices y de texturas, crea un paisaje sonoro perfecto para la voz de Elvis Costello. Como resultado, la música es a la vez bella y experimental.
El repertorio es una selección de canciones que se adaptan a la perfección a este formato, incluyendo baladas de su propio repertorio y algunas versiones. La química entre los dos artistas es de una telepatía absoluta.
'Deep Dead Blue' es una joya para los amantes de la música más sutil y elaborada. Es el sonido de dos maestros que, juntos, crean una belleza de otro mundo.
Listado de Canciones
- Weird Nightmare3:35
Letra
Weird nightmare You haunt my every dream Weird nightmare Tell me what's your scheme? Can it be that you're a part Of a lonely broken heart? Weird nightmare Why must you torment me? Weird nightmare Pain and misery In a heart that's loved and lost Take away the grief you've caused Can't sleep at night Twist, turn in fright With the fear that I'll live it all again In my dreams You're there to haunt me When you say she doesn't want me I've been hurt Do you know what that means? Weird nightmare Take away this dream you've born Weird nightmare Mend a heart that's torn That has paid the price of love A thousand fold Bring me a love With a heart of gold Weird nightmare - Love Field3:25
Letra
You lie so unfolded In a love field With your contempt for any modesty In a love field In a love field In a love field You yield with your lips still sealed In a love field Lost in a sea of imaginary women Everything you'd want from the dawn to the dimming Breath comes sharp and heart beats faster In a love field Cold ground for a pillow Under a blanket of stars In a love field In a love field In a love field Headlights that startled This embrace of hours In a love field In a crooked house Where things can be arranged You think you're different from the rest But you don't see how you've changed Under an archway On a road of white linen In a love field Feel the anxious rhythm of a functional stranger In a love field In a love field In a love field She's so tense but it's never mentioned In a love field - Shamed Into Love4:26
Letra
I fear, my dear We've forgotten the things strangers do If we could look back To the terrible thrill that we knew Am I imagining a world without you? Must we be shamed into love? What can I say? Will you pardon my stupid embrace? Sometimes I'm desperate While you're wiping the smile from your face Am I surrendering, or am I replaced? Must we be shamed into love? Shamed into love You're once a fool for having it Twice for letting it go Somewhere, my love, there's a feeling deep inside of me That I can't let go Oh, you'll never know But then, my darling I've forbidden myself to confess I've looked around now But I always return to your face In a world where everything I once cursed, I bless It must be you who shamed me into love Must we be shamed into love? - Gigi4:16
Letra
Gigi Am I a fool without a mind? Or have I nearly been too blind to realize Oh Gigi While you've been growing up before my eyes Gigi You're not at all that funny awkard little girl I knew No, overnight there's been a breathless change in you Oh Gigi While you were trembling on the brink Was I out yonder somewhere blinking at a star? Oh Gigi Have I been standing up too close or back too far? When did your sparkle turn to fire? And your warmth become desire Oh what miracle has made you the way you are? When did your warmth become desire? And your sparkle turn to fire? Oh what miracle has made you the way you are? Oh Gigi - Poor Napoleon4:05
Letra
I can't lie on this bed anymore it burns my skin You can take the truthful things you've said to me And put them on the head of a pin Poor Napoleon You always look so disappointed when I take my stockings off Don't you know the facts of life, boy Don't you know what these things cost She was selling stolen kisses to travelling salesmen and minstrel singers You put a penny in the slot She called you her Magic Fingers Poor Napoleon I bet she isn't all that's advertised I bet that isn't all she fakes Just like that place where they take your spine And turn it into soapflakes so good night little school boy, you'd better learn some self control did you mess up your hairstyle, pour scorn in your begging bowl Bare wires from the socket to the bed where you embraced that girl Did you ever think there's far too many people in the world? One day they'll probably make a movie out of all of this There won't even have to be a murder just a slow dissolving kiss - Baby Plays Around3:09
Letra
It's not open to discussion anymore She's out again tonight and I'm alone once more She's all I have worth waiting for But baby plays around And so it seems I've always been the last to know To hold on to that girl, I had to let her go I wish to God I didn't love her so 'Cos baby plays around I try to be strong hold on to my pride She doesn't even know it's wrong, how much I hurt Inside And heaven knows I've tried But baby plays around. just a plaything It's hard to reconcile the facts I'm facing It's not open to discussion anymore She walks those shiny streets I walk the worn out floor She's all I have worth living for Baby plays, baby plays around - Deep Dead Blue3:51
Letra
Deep dead blue Deep dead blue Deep dead blue that nightly shades I'm lost in deep dead blue Deep dead blue Beyond the deep dead blue