Cerca de um ano e meio depois de Misery, aí está o 18º álbum de estúdio de John Cale, ilustrando essa ilusão de óptica transfigurada em celebração que o título condensa com invulgar sabor (e sabedoria): POPtical Illusion. São hinos de desencanto, rasgados por alguns fogachos de alegria — exemplo: How We See the Light.
It's a lot like magic
It's a lot like friendship
It's the best of everything
Everything I've found
Sometimes you learn a thing or two
You learn a lesson
Then in the quiet ways of love
You wasted time
You try to track me down
And how you finally found
The way we heard you
Coming out again
In between the way we see the light
Then we lose our minds and jump the fence
In between the way we see the light
Then we lose our minds and jump the fence
Here goes the better ideas
In the way we saw our lives
Were they more decisive now
Than in a future time?
Can I close another chapter
In the way we run our lives?
More decisive in the future
Or deliberate in the end
In between the way we see the light
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