Por quién doblan las campanas & Metallica

Por quien doblan las campanas (For Whom the Bell Tolls), es una novela publicada en 1940. su autor, Ernest Hemingway vivió la Guerra Civil Española como corresponsal. El americano Robert Jordan es un profesor de español que lucha como especialista de explosivos en las Brigadas Internacionales. La destrucción de un puente vital para los intereses republicanos, es la misión que debe cumplir junto a un grupo de guerrilleros que le ayudan.

La banda de thrash metal, Metallica, sacó un álbum en 1984 de nombre: Ride the Lightning, y en su interior encontraremos la canción llamada "For Whom the Bell Tolls" (Por quien doblan las campanas) basada en el libro de Hemingway.

Letra de "For Whom the Bell Tolls"

Make his fight on the hill in the early day
Constant chill deep inside
Shouting gun, on they run through the endless grey
On the fight, for they are right, yes, by whos to say?
For a hill men would kill, why? they do not know
Suffered wounds test there their pride
Men of five, still alive through the raging glow
Gone insane from the pain that they surely know

For whom the bell tolls
Time marches on
For whom the bell tolls

Take a look to the sky just before you die
It’s the last time you will
Blackened roar massive roar fills the crumbling sky
Shattered goal fills his soul with a ruthless cry
Stranger now, are his eyes, to this mystery
He hears the silence so loud
Crack of dawn, all is gone except the will to be
Now they will see what will be, blinded eyes to see

For whom the bell tolls
Time marches on
For whom the bell tolls