Supertramp es una de las bandas más icónicas del rock progresivo y pop, conocida por su sonido característico que combina el rock con toques de jazz y elementos progresivos. Fundada en 1969 en Londres, la banda fue el resultado de la visión y el sueño del músico Rick Davies. Davies, después de la ruptura de su anterior grupo, The Joint, decidió formar una nueva banda que llevaría a cabo sus ambiciones musicales.
Así, en 1969, Rick Davies, junto con Roger Hodgson, Richard Palmer y Robert Millar, formaron lo que inicialmente se llamó "Daddy". Poco después, cambiaron el nombre a Supertramp, inspirado por el libro The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp de W.H. Davies. La banda se encontraba en una búsqueda continua de su identidad musical, y sus primeros años estuvieron marcados por experimentación y cambios en la formación.
En 1974, Supertramp lanzó su tercer álbum de estudio, Crime of the Century, que se convirtió en su primer gran éxito. El álbum incluyó éxitos como "Dreamer" y "School", que catapultaron a la banda a la fama. La producción pulida, combinada con las letras introspectivas y las complejas estructuras musicales, hicieron de Crime of the Century un referente del rock progresivo.
Rick Davies y Roger Hodgson, los compositores principales de la banda, desarrollaron una dinámica creativa única. Davies aportaba un estilo maduro y bluesero, mientras que Hodgson ofrecía un tono más melódico y espiritual. Ver BiograFia Completa
[Verse 1]
Hide in your shell, cos the world is out to bleed you for a ride
What will you gain making your life a little longer?
Heaven or hell, was the journey cold that gave you eyes of steel?
Shelter behind painting your mind and playing joker
Too frightening
To listen to a stranger
Too beautiful
To put your pride in danger
You're waiting for
Someone to understand you
[Pre Chorus]
But you've got demons in your closet
(You've got demons in your closet)
And you're screaming out to stop it
(And you're screaming out to stop it)
Saying life's begun to cheat you
Friends are out to beat you
Grab on to what you can scramble for
[Chorus]
Don't let the tears linger on inside now
Cos it's sure time you gained control
If I can help you
If I can help you
If I can help you
Just let me know
Well, let me show you the nearest signpost
To get your heart back and on the road
If I can help you
If I can help you
If I can help you
Just let me know
[Verse 2]
All through the night as you lie awake and hold yourself so tight
What do you need, a second-hand movie-star to tend you?
I as a boy, I believed the saying the cure for pain was love
How would it be if you could see the world through my eyes?
Too frightening
The fire's becoming colder
Too beautiful
To think you're getting older
You're looking for
Someone to give an answer
[Pre Chorus]
But what you see is just illusion
(What you see is just illusion)
You're surrounded by confusion
(You're surrounded by confusion)
Saying life's begun to cheat you
Friends are out to beat you
Grab on to what you can scramble for
[Chorus]
Don't let the tears linger on inside now
Cos it's sure time you gained control
If I can help you
If I can help you
If I can help you
Just let me know
Well, let me show you the nearest signpost
To get your heart back and on the road
If I can help you
If I can help you
If I can help you
Just let me know
[Bridge]
I wanna know
I wanna know
I wanna know
Oh I've got to know
I wanna know you
I wanna know you
Well let me know you
I wanna feel you
Oh I wanna touch you
Please let me near you
Let me near you
Can you hear what I'm sayin'?
Well I'm hopin', I'm dreamin', I'm prayin'
I know what you're thinkin'
See what you're seein'
Never ever let yourself go
Hold yourself down
Hold yourself down
Why d'ya hold yourself down?
[Outro]
Why don't you listen? You can trust me
(So whatcha gonna take it to?)
Oh there's a place I know the way to
(So whatcha gonna make it do?)
A place there is no need to
(So what's he gonna)
To feel you
(So what's he gonna)
To feel that you are alone
(So what's he gonna do?)
I wanna feel you
(So whatcha gonna take it to?)
I know exactly what you're feelin'
(So whatcha gonna make it do?)
Cos all your troubles are within you
(So what's he gonna)
So begin to
(So what's he gonna)
See that I'm just bleeding too
(So what's he gonna do?)
Oh, love me, love you, loving is the way to
(So whatcha gonna take it to?)
Help me, help you
(So whatcha gonna make it do?)
Why must we be so cool?
(So what's he gonna)
Oh so cool
(So what's he gonna)
Oh, we're such damn fools
(So what's he gonna do?)