"Marriage is for old folks" (Nina Simone)

Amigos, eis outra canção magistral falando sobre o ma-trimônio e "todo o ilícito engenho de se evitá-lo". Nina Simone destila nessa letra genial, carregada por arranjos do mais puro blues, afirmações ácidas e corrosivas sobre as dificuldades de ser quem se é dentro de um casamento. E sob o pretexto de se dar um nome a essa canção em homenagem ao estilo Jane Austen de escrever, "Injudiciousness & Understatement" cairia bem.

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I love dancing
Crazy romancing
Fellas advancing constantly

Marriage is for old folks
Old folks, not for me!

One husband
One wife
Whaddya got?
Two people sentenced for life!

I love singing
Good healthy clinging
Quietly bringing on a spree

Marriage is for old folks
Cold folks!
One married he
One married she
Whaddya got?
Two people watchin tv!

I'm not ready
To quit bein' free
And I'm not willing
To stop being me
I've gotta sing my song
Why should I belong
To some guy who says
That Im wrong?

Cookin' dinner
Lookin no thinner
Gray elbows and
A sudsy sea

I'm exploding
With youth and with zest
Who needs corroding
In some vultures nest?
I've gotta fly my wings
Go places, do things
My freedom bells really
Gonna ring!

I've been through years
Too many blue years
Now I want new years every eve

Marriage is for old folks
Marriage is for cold folks
Not for me

Can't you see
Marriage ain't for me ...