La siguiente parada de NXT pasa por San Antonio. La marca ha decidido llamar así a su nuevo evento especial. NXT TakeOver: San Antonio presenta un cartel con combates que buscan sellar muchos asuntos pendientes entre las superestrellas en cuestión.
Por ejemplo, al Campeón NXT, Shinsuke Nakamura, le ha salido un oponente “glorioso”: Bobby Roode. Además, Asuka deberá defender su título ante nada más y nada menos que tres oponentes: Billie Kay, Peyton Royce y Nikki Cross. Por otra parte, Tommasso Ciampa y Johnny Gargano se enfrentan a los campeones de la última edición del torneo Dusty Rhodes: The Authors of Pain, por el Campeonato de Parejas. Estos y muchos más encuentros se celebrarán esta noche.
Recordemos que la WWE presenta mañana uno de sus eventos más importantes, el Royal Rumble. NXT ha querido otorgar la misma importancia al evento de San Antonio, y una de las formas de demostrarlo es con la cantidad de canciones oficiales del mismo.
Nada más y nada menos que cuatro canciones han conseguido ser nombradas como oficiales para NXT TakeOver: San Antonio: Monster, de Starset; Square Hammer, de la banda Ghost; This Light I Hold, surgida de la colaboración entre Memphis May Fire y Jacoby Shaddix; y finalmente, Intro 2, de NF.
Esta es la primera colaboración de cualquiera de los grupos con NXT concretamente, y con la WWE a nivel general. Son canciones pertenecientes al hard rock, exceptuando el tema de NF, que pertenece al género del rap.
A continuación, les adjuntamos las canciones, con las correspondientes letras oficiales:
1- Monster, de Starset
Under the knife, I surrendered
The innocence yours to consume,
You cut it away
And you filled me up with hate.
Into the silence you sent me
Into the fire consume
You thought I’d forget
But it’s always in my head.
You’re the pulse in my veins,
You’re the war that I wage.
Can you change me?
Can you change me?
You’re the love that I hate
You’re the drug that I take.
Will you cage me?
Will you cage me?
You’re the pulse in my veins.
You’re the war that I wage.
Can you change me?
Can you change me?
From the monster you made me?
The monster you made me.
This is the world you’ve created
The product of what I’ve become.
My soul and my youth
Seems it’s all for you to use
If I could take back the moment
I’d let you get under my skin.
Relent or resist?
Seems the monster always wins.
You’re the pulse in my veins… (etc.)
My heart’s an artífice, a decoy soul
I lift you up and then I let you go.
I’ve made an art of digging shallow holes
I’ll drop the darkness in and watch it grow
My heart’s an artífice, a decoy soul
Who knew the emptiness could be so cold?
I’ve lost the parts of me that make me whole.
I am the darkness… I’m a monster.
You’re the pulse in my veins… (etc.)
2- Square Hammer, de Ghost
Living in the night
‘Neath devils torn asunder.
You call on me to solve a crooked rhyme
As I’m closing in
Imposing your slumber
You call on me as bells begin to chime.
Are you on the square?
Are you on the level?
Are you ready to swear right here, right now
Before the devil
That you’re on the square
That you’re on the level
That you’re ready to stand right here, right now
Right here, right now.
Hiding from the light
Sacrificing nothing
Still you call on me for entrance to the shrine
Hammering the nails
Into a sacred coffin
You call on me for powers clandestine.
Are you on the square?… (etc.)
3- This Light I Hold, de Memphis May Fire y Jacoby Shaddix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4OH6dzF2eI
I feel the spothlight. I see their eyes.
They lit a fire just to burn me alive.
I feel the judgment. I hear the lies,
But I won’t go down without a fight.
I’m not going down.
I hear them twist my Words and mock everything I’m saying.
They hope I´ll crash and burn, but I’m here and I’m staying.
It’s like everywhere I turn, my enemies are waiting.
To hurt me cause they’re hurt, so I keep on praying.
I feel the spothlight. I see their eyes… (etc.)
I’m here and I’m not leaving until I’m finished.
With every punch you throw, I’ll get back up and go.
Hate me, but I never said you had to listen.
This story is my own and this light I hold will glow.
They stabbed me in the back, but these scars have made me stronger.
Always under attack but I can´t be conquered.
Remind me of what I lack and hope I won´t last much longer.
Try to push me off track but I´ll stay right here with my honor.
I’m here and I’m not leaving until I’m finished… (etc.)
You should know by now, but you can’t just push me out.
I will not let this go.
I might be bruised and beat but I am on my feet.
You’ll never win this war.
This story is my own.
With my hand raised up high
I’ll keep fighting the good fight and I am not alone.
This light I hold will glow!
I’m here and I’m not leaving until I’m finished… (etc.)
I feel the spothlight. I see their eyes… (etc.)
4- Intro 2, de NF
I’m back, did anyone miss me?
They said a second record could be tricky.
Well, that’s kind of funny cause I am not tripping.
My fans, they know what it is, and they with me.
Yeah, I ain’t the hype that’s goin’ ride with the semi.
I came form a town with three lakes and no city.
I’ve been doing shows for nothing but pennies.
When I leave the stage, they never forget me.
Mansion was a glimpse of my life.
I let you see what it’s like to be in my head.
People ask me what I think I think I be doin´
If it wasn’t music, I’d rather be dead.
You Heard what I said, that was like me at a 3.
You don’t want to see me at 10
Or maybe you do
I promise if that is the case, then that is what you’re gonna get
If you’re looking for music with watered down lyrics
I promise that you need to go somewhere else
And if you want somebody to tell you everything that you wanna hear
I won’t be any help.
This flow is familiar. I think I Heard it before.
Oh yeah, I made it myself.
I left the door open to come in my mansion but I never said it’s a beautiful house.
Some of ya’ll sat on the porch.
Looked at my Windows and stared at my door.
They ask me if I’m going to kill it this record.
I laugh in their face and I ask ‘em. “Do you see the blood on the floor?”
He’s at it again. NF is crazy, he’s bad with the kids.
He never talks about nothing but him.
Yeah, my Friends say, “He’s kind of a diva”.
Well, you need to get some new friends.
I’m as true as it gets.
‘Till I ge ton the stage and flip on the switch.
And I go to a place where nobody is.
If you putting my name in the song, that’s something that you won’t regret.
I’m not lying to you here.
I remember the shows when no one was there.
I remember the shows when nobody cared.
Some people in front of me laughing like “He isn’t going nowhere”.
It’s funny now, isn’t it?
This type of life isn’t how I envisioned it.
This type of life, it just ain’t how I pictured it.
I’m in the back of the tour bus
Trying to face how my family is different.
Now what you think it is.
Write a review, tell me what you think of this.
Give me three stars and call me an idiot.
But to be honest, it don’t make a difference.
I know some people don’t get it.
But you have now entered the Therapy Session.
If you don’t like music that’s personal.
I have no clue what you people are doing here.
Might as well thow out the record.
I pull up a chair.
I track through my music like nowbody’s there.
Only person I judge is the one in the mirror.
I’m lately, he ain’t doin’ well.
I don’t need ya’ll in my ear.
I’m tired of hearing it.
You call it music, I call it my therapist.
Sick people telling me I have been carrying way too much baggage.
I need to take care of it.
I know she’s right, but man, it’s embarrasing.
Music has raised me more than my parents did.
Take out a picture of us and I stare at it.
Who am I kidding? You probably ain’t hearing this.
Show me an artist you want to compare me with.
You put us both on a track, I’m a bury ‘em.
Give me this shovel, it’s ‘bout to get scarier.
None of you want to attack what you staring at.
I see you beats, but whhere is the lyrics at?
NF is the logo, you know I been wearing that.
Don’t come to my show and be sittin’ in the very back.
I call you out in the crowd like “There he is!”
I thought I’d be happy. It feels like I’m cursed.
It’s hard to be clean when you play in the dirt.
You gave me this place to go when I’m hurting.
I thought it’d get better, but it’s getting worse.
And I got nobody to blame when I work, like 24/7
I ain’t been to church, and Satan keep callin’ me, he tryin’ to flirt
I hang up the pone, these are more than just Word.
I drive on that highway and listen to Mansion.
I look up to God like, “When did this happen?”
Yelling with all of my fans to “Wake up”.
But feel like I haven’t.
I get emotional, I didn’t plan this.
I’m doing things I never imagined.
I’m sorry but I gotta leave.
I don’t wanna be late for my therapy session.
NXT realiza su primera parada de 2017 en un evento especial del WWE Network. ¿Les gustan las canciones? ¿Quién se alzará con la gloria? ¿Quién se despedirá de la marca de Florida para siempre? La respuesta, esta noche… en NXT TakeOver: San Antonio.