The Trial, quando il mondo fa vacillare la sanità mentale

Una canzone che mi ha sempre stregato, sempre nell'album The Wall (tra poco cambierò, per svariare, verso Animals, Wish You Were Here, The Piper at the gates of dawn e The Dark Side of the Moon) è The Trial. Quasi in chiusura della storia di Pink, si inserisce questo brano con coretti e una voce straziata e carica d'ansia che un magnifico Waters riesce non si sa come a tirar fuori. Pink è coinvolto in un processo, che ricorda un surreale Paese delle Meraviglie alla rovescia: un Paese degli Orrori, tra giudici in parvenza di vermi striscianti e la testa del protagonista sempre più sull'orlo di una crisi di follia.

Non ne so il motivo, ma questo brano mi ha sempre inquietato, ascoltatelo e forse potrete capirmi. Intanto allego al video ed al testo, anche una spiegazione più che necessaria della canzone.

THE TRIAL

PINK FLOYD - THE WALL

Good morning Worm your honour
The crowd will plainly show
The prisoner who now stands before you
Was caught red handed showing feelings
Showing feelings of an almost human nature
This will not do
CALL THE SCHOOLMASTER
I always said he'd come to no good
In the end your honour
If they'd let me have my way I could
Have flayed him into shape
But my hands were tied
The bleeding hearts and artists
Let him get away with murder
Let me hammer him today
Crazy toys in the attic I am crazy
Truly gone fishing
Crazy toys in the attic he is crazy
They must have taken my marbles away
You little shit, you're in it now
I hope they throw away the key
You should talked to me more often
Than you did, but no you had to
Go your own way. Have you broken any homes up lately?
"Just five minutes Worm your honour him and me alone"
Baaaaaabe
Come to mother baby let me hold you in my arms
M'red I never wanted him to get in any trouble
Why'd he ever have to leave me
Worm your honour let me take him home
Crazy over the rainbow I am crazy
Bars in the window
There must have been a door there in the wall
When I came in
Crazy over the rainbow he is crazy
The evidence before the court is
Incontravertible, there's no need for
The jury to retire
In all my years of judging
I have never heard before of
Some one more deserving
The full penalty of law
The way you made them suffer
Your exquisite wife and mother
Fills me with an urge to defecate
But my friend you have revealed your deepest fear
I sentence you to be exposed before your peers
Tear down the wall.

Per chi bazzica bene l'inglese consiglio di leggersi spiegazioni e approfondimenti sul brano su questo link: spiegazione The Trial. Per gli altri, accontentatevi di Wikipedia, ma fidatevi, quella in inglese è di gran lunga superiore, anzi, oserei dire perfetta: The trial su Wikipedia.