venerdì 15 ottobre 2010
Chimes | Summer '93
of out-of-tune bells
and random memories
of devastating beauty
of the last clouds
before the sky ends
what's left of everyone,
of everyone's hands
and broken vows
of quiet october nights
in nuclear plants
before this life ends
what's left of haste
of speeding trains
and spelling mistakes
of you into my eyes
of my partial blindness
before this line ends.
mercoledì 13 ottobre 2010
Criminal Mind vol. 1-3
stranded on a japanese island
thrown into an hawaian volcano
just my arms and legs' graveyard
in the corner of a room.
waiting for the bravery of a moment
waiting for the courage of a lifetime
so long that every clock now
looks familiar.
I've let you into my soul
that's where I've gone wrong.
airplane drones in my evening
pacific like the ocean I know not
haven't I already paid enough
for not being yours?
am I missing anything?
just take care of yourself while I'm away
as long as I'm not awake.
I've let you into my soul
that's where I've gone wrong.
as if my skin wasn't cold
I'm letting you leave me alone.
******
RED
so welcome back
all the ways I pictured you
they don't make you justice
I must look like a wreck
in my graceful loneliness
epic love is epic.
how do you feel about
my soul shred into eights?
since it's raining in here
don't leave your waterproof smile
on the doorstep
now let my blood run slow
like magma, then go away
so welcome back
after a thousand years of sunsets
the sun himself
I must look like Eve
cuz I feel like no one's ever loved
before me
how do you feel about
me wondering how you feel?
since it's raining in here
don't leave your waterproof smile
on the doorstep
now let my blood run slow
like magma, then go away
*****
SELLING A SOUL
why bother waiting
when everything is settled
when my brain is a meadow
where violets blossom
in any winter day
when both my hands are full
of broken curses
that I'll never say aloud
wonder why?
I don't think I know how to trade my soul
for a fairly, freely declared love
do you? you who roam like a spider
the corners of my life
a farewell to everything
when everything is gone
long before you
to live off dust and mirrors
back to mess and distruction
where it belongs
where I do belong
and used to dwell
right where the rain is resting
I don't think I know how to trade my soul
for a fairly, freely declared love
do you? you who roam like a spider
the corners of my life
and now please, come back to me
you punk love, you three-chords song
giovedì 30 settembre 2010
Il Rosso
Tutti i modi in cui ti ho immaginato, non ti rendono giustizia. Devo sembrare proprio un relitto, nella mia graziosa solitudine: c'è poco da fare, quando una storia è epica, è epica. Allora, cosa ne pensi della mia anima stracciata in ottavi? Cosa ne pensi di me, che sto qui a chiedermi cm ti senti tu?
Siccome qui dentro piove, non lasciare il tuo sorriso impermeabile sulla porta. Lascia che il mio sangue scorra lento, come magma, e poi vai via come al solito.
Quando tornerai, sarai il benvenuto. Come se dopo mille anni di tramonti, apparisse il sole in persona. Somiglio forse ad Eva? Perchè sai, mi sento come se nessuno avesse amato prima di me.
Cm sopra, quando una storia è epica, è epica.
{versione tradotta dall'originale "Red", versi sciolti, settembre 2010}
domenica 26 settembre 2010
Ode to Sept 26th
It's all tides I don't have the strenght to fight off.
My love for you
keeps me from knowing
the answer to riddles,
the rhymes for the refrain I don't want to write.
giovedì 2 settembre 2010
Armistice | L'Armistizio
Sto cercando di concentrarmi..sulle cose peggiori. Sto tenendo gli occhi chiusi, serrati, sto cercando di concentrarmi. Ma non riesco a far altro che immaginarmi mentre corro per reparti chiusi di vecchi sanatori sovietici.
Butto le braccia contro il soffitto, nel tentativo di impedire al mio corpo di soffrire. Butto le braccia al cielo per consegnare il mio amore di ferro all’aria e alla ruggine.
Per favore, vieni qui in silenzio, e suggella questo accordo. Non combatto più. Ce n’è abbastanza di me, ce n’è abbastanza di te, semplicemente non se ne può più di niente. Questo è un armistizio.
********
hush, please, I'm trying
to keep you balanced
on the Maginot line
traced into my heart
what is it that makes you think
that my will and strength
won't be enough?
I'm trying to focus
on the worst things
I'm trying to keep
my eyes wide shut
but all I do is end up running
in corridors of soviet sanatoria
throw my hands up
to the ceiling
and make my body
stop this grieving
throw my hands up
to surrender
my iron love
to air and rust
please come here
and seal this deal
I fight no more
there's too much of me
there's too much of you
there's simply too much
of everything
this is an armistice
martedì 13 luglio 2010
346 - CCCXLVI
"sarò sempre quella sbagliata, un'ape da miele, buona a nulla, scapperò via e starò meglio solo quando tutte le mie cellule staranno sciogliendosi"
ma le uniche cellule che ti rimangono, che mi rimangono, sono quelle sensibili al dolore..potrebbe essere in qualche modo utile far finta che la mia gabbia toracica sia vuota?
vedi tutte le cose giuste della mia vita fanno rima in qualche modo, ed è bello da vedere..voglio dire, almeno i versi e le rime si baciano..come sempre, e sempre lo faranno.
******
american accent, somebody’s talking
marveling of the possibility
of having only one to love you
and for you to love
mistakes can be made and not made
it’s all about the weather
it’s all about how warm it gets
into your heart sometimes
and it’s then, it’s then you wonder
you marvel of the chances
there were, the day you promised
as if no one was looking at you
yes I’ll always be the wrong one
bee for honey, good for nothing,
I’ll escape and I’ll be better
when of all my cells are melting.
and the only cells still standing
are the ones who sense this sorrow
is it any good pretending
that my chest is simply hollow?
all the right things of my life
somehow rhyme, and it’s good to see
that at least these verses kiss
always have, always will.
lunedì 5 luglio 2010
Come le campane della chiesa madre..
Niente italiano, si torna alle origini. English please.
BONES (OneDay)
and then I surfaced, wretched and yearning
I don't know how could you thus affect me
and my little secrets (wrecking hopes)
the strength in my bones, the heat of today
I'm doing it again, again
but still we walk on
looking for each other
yes still we walk on
cause we both know
somehow we'll find each other
at last I surfaced to a sky that's a dead end
I don't know how to protect you anymore
maybe I never have, never
the sentimental side has gone, it's one day
it's someone else's story
but still we walk on
looking for each other
yes still we walk on
cause we both know
somehow we'll find
each other
and then I surfaced as a take&toss hope
as any of my own favourite songs
as an exclusive truth
that everybody knew, long before I spoke
long before I knew myself
******
RADIO CITY DELPHI
I'm back to when I was a priestess
and you were my ritual
I still expect to see you soon
climbing the stairs of this altar
and I'm back to when you were
the last thing I could fall in love with
so what on earth happened to me?
this is radio city delphi
we bring you the best news
from all around the country
of Delusion
this last hallucination
I was not prepared for
blows in my mind
like the wind in a cave
end of the broadcast
I see the temples in my own memory
stories of immortal melodies
and I always dream of writing one for you
now it feels like you never existed
neither in this life or on Sybil's leaves
I'm back to when I was a priestess
a sacred nonentity.
this is radio city delphi
we bring you the best news
from all around the country
of Delusion
this last hallucination
I was not prepared for
blows in my mind
like the wind in a cave
end of the broadcast
********
credits to: ziomi e la sua infanzia diffcile e splendida
BOOK O'LO
I love this place, I love its freezing wind
for all the times it brought your scent to me
it's been a while since something changed for real
the shades and shapes of anything concealed.
but if someone should send for me, I'm not here
I'm right around the corner, predestinated.
be quiet, your heart is waiting for the starter's sign
aren't we all? I'm sure I was.
faster, an unpredictable music's playing for me
did you lose my heart for a charm, on a dare?
among all monsters, I'm still the worst
a creature made of desire and remorse
I love this place, its funtains and its wonders
for all the times they made me look less obvious
sorrounded by the beauty of a soundtrack
come on, come dive with me into this madness.
**************
THE CHAMBER (lilacs)
you sit still into the last thought of yesterday
into the first of today, while everyone is running
towards another impossible sunset
I'm here instead trying to figure out what
is essential in the end and what is not
the moon's just let some light in through the window
across this chamber full of shadows
I picture myself tryina contemplate
your kind of perfection
incapable of speaking again, it feels like
it's been centuries since my heart last beat.
overcome by years of faith in their god
they taught me at least how to hope
for something eternal to come
though it won't be forgiveness, it won't be bliss
hope it'll be you
*************
OUTRAGEOUS
this is the tropic of unicorn
careful what you ask for
cos wishes here may turn into curses
run away, don't let your heart
sing along with the mermaids
it's you I want, love me your way
I won't say no anymore, at least for today
I ask for nothing, I pray no god
my heathen eyes have seen enough
and this is outrageous
there are worn out places
like this around the universe
where because of Beauty
our miseducated souls meet
I see no meaning for such meeting,
or maybe I'd do, if you were here
to change the rules of the skies
with me, at last, with me.
it's you I want, love me your way
I won't say no anymore, at least for today
I ask for nothing, I pray no god
my heathen eyes have seen enough
and this is outrageous
vabbò pe mò basta ca mi dole a capu.
venerdì 29 gennaio 2010
Il Caffè di Mezzanotte
Si lo ammetto: finora ho vissuto contemplando il sole, ma nessuno sembra credermi quando dico che non è poi così accecante. Basta che qualcuno ci offra il suo primo sogno della sera, e da quello prendere tutta la vita che c’è. Quella luce bellissima da guardarci dentro.
E invece è mezzanotte, e non c’è traccia di mani pronte a porgermi uno stupido sogno, così come non c’è traccia della neve. C’è però il solito vento – quello non si stanca mai – per le discese di Cortale, così silenziose..prima che tu arrivassi, rimbombavano di niente, scoppiavano di quella orribile ed ipocrita malattia che è la tranquillità. E di quella al telegiornale non dicono mai nulla.
domenica 3 gennaio 2010
Onde Verdi - La Prima Sera
Nelle mie visioni notturne - influenzate senza dubbio da ascolti poco ortodossi – oltre ai soliti loschi personaggi, stavolta c’era Londra. La City e i grattacieli. Nessun altro posto regge il confronto. Ma nessuno, anche lì, riusciva a dirmi la verità.
Dimmela tu la verità, tu che sai come farlo. Perché qui tutti mentono appena chiudo gli occhi. Anche quando mi pongo questioni elementari – chi ha messo in fila i mattoni? chi ti ha dato un sorriso simile? – mi sembra tutto un enorme mistero figlio di questo buio sinuoso.
E il delay delle chitarre proietta spettri verdi là dove fino a poco fa c’era più o meno niente. Beh, è arrivato il momento di restituirmi all’infinito esattamente come mi hai trovato anni fa. Nessuno ti fermerà. Però prima dimmi la verità, come hai sempre fatto, solo tu, mentre gli altri mi cantavano la ninnananna.
Dimmi perché il mare mi sembra una schiuma blu, dimmi chi ti ha dato questo sorriso. Dimmi la verità ora che non ci sente nessuno, qui nessuno ci riconosce – capirai, a Londra!
Prova a convincermi adesso che il blackout è finito e siamo noi a decidere se accendere le luci. Quelle luminose, come dice Paul Banks.