14 de fevereiro, segundo os BEATLES

     

     O Dia de São Valentim está hoje tão descaracterizado, tão acossado a uma lógica comercial - quando até os Beatles já haviam alertado, numa das suas mais belas canções, que "love is one thing that money can't buy..." -, está tão reduzido a patetas "mensagens" de amor tontas e patetas, está tão apalermado numa evocação "halloweenesca" e carnavalesca da data, que a celebração do mais nobre sentimento humano - o amor - está muitas vezes reduzida a comemorações pirosas e a manifestações sentimentalistas e bacocas.

     Que pensaria São Valentim  da atual celebração valentinesca, apequanada e trivial?

     Na sociedade da mudança permanente, do império do fugaz e do efémero, da desvalorização dos projetos de vida e da construção de relações afetivas sólidas, projetadas para o futuro e em que se quer fazer crer que tudo se compra, que tudo tem um preço, já poucos parecem compreender a mensagem dos quatro cavaleiros de Liverpool. É claro que seria possível citar muitos outros cavalçeiros dos sentimentos... mas hoje são eles que recordo, pela urgência que as canções transmitem.

    Por isso proponho, agora, lembrar letras e canções intemporais, que muito nos ensinam, nestes tempos de deriva e de irresponsabilidade sentimental. Ou seja, as paixões não são descartáveis, as pessoas são  importantes. Na maravilhosa e complexa aventura das relações humanas, a paixão não se pode comprar. Pode-se apenas fingir de forma passageira. O amor. esse, não tem preço, porque não se comanda. Acontece. E ainda bem...

Can't buy me love

Can't buy me love, love
Can't buy me love

I'll buy you a diamond ring my friend
If it makes you feel all right
I'll get you anything my friend
If it makes you feel all right
'Cause I don't care too much for money
Money can't buy me love

I'll give you all I've got to give
If you say you love me too
I may not have a lot to give
but what I've got I'll give to you
I don't care too much for money
Money can't buy me love

Can't buy me love
Everybody tells me so
Can't buy me love
No, no, no, no

Say you don't need no diamond rings
And I'll be satisfied
Tell me that you want those kind of things
that money just can't buy
I don't care too much for money
Money can't buy me love

Can't buy me love
Everybody tells me so
Can't buy me love
No, no, no, no

Say you don't need no diamond rings
And I'll be satisfied
Tell me that you want those kind of things
that money just can't buy
I don't care too much for money
Money can't buy me love
Ooh, can't buy me love, love
Can't buy me love, no

     Pois é, o dinheiro não compra o amor, como também não compra a felicidade e a alegria de viver, como está patente nesta outra canção dos Beatles.

She's leaving home

Wenesday morning at five o'clock as the day begins
Silently closing her bedroom door
Leaving the note that she hoped would say more
She goes down the stairs to the kitchen clutching her handkerchief
Quietly turning the backdoor key
Stepping outside she is free.

She (We gave her most of our lives)
is leaving (Sacrificed most of our lives)
home (We gave her everything money could buy)
She's leaving home after living alone
For so many years.

Father snores as his wife gets into her dressing gown
Picks up the letter that's lying there
Standing alone at the top of the stairs
She breaks down and cries to her husband Daddy our baby's gone
Why would she treat us so thoughtlessly
How could she do this to me.

She (We never thought of ourselves)
is leaving (Never a thought for ourselves)
home (We struggled hard all our lives to get by)
She's leaving home after living alone
For so many years.

Friday morning at nine o'clock she is far away
Waiting to keep the appointment she made
Meeting a man from the motor trade.

She (What did we do that was wrong)
is having (We didn't know it was wrong)
fun (Fun is the one thing that money can't buy)
Something inside that was always denied
For so many years.
She's leaving home. Bye, bye

Feliz Dia de São Valentim!