Alternate Reality -The City - Waves
I share with you one of the 8-bit melodies that evokes the most nostalgia in us: it is "Waves", a song that is heard when entering the hotel at night. Lost Tears Tavernin Alternate Reality - The City (Datasoft, 1985).
Next, the letterwith translation into our language:
The waves at / Las olas
home are pounding / close to home they crash
on the shore / on the coast
the snow here's / The snow here
falling / falls
just outside my door / just outside my door
and all I want is
to be with you
once more / once again
but I'm told / but they tell me
that this is one / that that is
thing that I best / a thing that is better
stop hoping for / I stop hoping for
They tell me to / They ask me
go on / keep going
I ask them for / I ask them for
how long / for how much longer
They tell me to / They ask me to
be strong / sea fuerte
to what you can't / for what you can't
be wrong / be wrong
I'm lost without / I'm lost without
your love / your love
I need you here with / I need you here
me / with me
in this / in this
reality / reality
The reply / La respuesta
They without warning / Without any warning
took away / they took away
from me / away from me
happiness / la alegrÃa
we shared when / that we shared when
you were free / you were free
I search the sky / I search in the skies
my love return / that my love returns
to me / to me
I am cold / I feel cold
and feel alone / and I feel alone
blind silent / blind silence
this is what I've come to be / that's what I've become
Friends tell me to / Friends ask me to
go on / continue
no one knows where / nobody knows where
you've gone / you left
They tell me to / They ask me
be strong / ser fuerte
endeavor to / I strive to
live on / keep living
I'm lost without / I'm lost without
your love / your love
I need you here with / I need you here
me / with me
come to / come to the
reality / reality
I know that you'll be there
agree / in agreement
to hurry home to me / to return home soon to me
as soon as you are / as soon as you are
free / libre
As an anecdote, Gary Gilbertson-responsible for themusicin Alternate Reality- he said that when the gamedebuteda year earlier in theConsumer Electronics Showfrom Las Vegas, exhibited aspecial versionof this melody in8 channels, for which he synchronized two Ataris together.
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