Extra bonus { Lyrics }
Author: Giampiero Sanzari

ELENCO TESTI
01. Pelle di Stracci (Skin of rags)
02. Venerdi 17 (Friday 17)
03. Bambino (Child)
04. L'albero dei Bradipi (The tree of the bradipes)
05. L'indeciso (The undecided)
06. Via! (Away!)




PELLE DI STRACCI
(SKIN OF RAGS)

I dream of rag clothes
Soaked with vital sweat
To cover the part of me
That has stopped desiring

The crazy run of time
An abyss on the body
That I never wanted that way
Never desired that way

And it goes on…

I want a small story
That can repeat itself every night
That could once more
Put me to sleep.

And it goes on…and on…



BAMBINO
(CHILD)

Like a child
I take off my shoes
And barefoot I walk towards you

With my arms open
I look for a smile
And I
Try to do it by myself

Because they have wings like angels
Angels in abrupt digression towards you.

My hands outstretched
Getting hold of a refuge
So far away from me

I am a child
I have taken off my shoes
And I need you so badly

I lend my face to a rough caress
That melts my heart…
For you.



L'INDECISO
(THE UNDECIDED)

Exhausted
Of things
There is no need to think of
They observe me
While time
Decides for me
Chooses for me.

What does it give more
A better choice?
Or maybe just a safer one
Who knows…

And that “Who knows”
That reverses
My decisions
That makes them empty
Of any credibility
Of any use
For me.



MI HANNO PERSO
(THEY LOST ME)

Strange path
Blossoming the shelves
A riot of colours
And of artificial dreams
A race of the eyes
Full of tears
A man is passing by
Asking himself “What does he want?”

Voices of fairies
Enchanting
The escape of tears
Like butterflies
Confined into
Remnants of tales
And I, tell
My labyrinth…

Fragments of smile
From a distracted face
Buying something
Showing it’s features
The time has come
To vanish again
Chasing in this dream
The string of joy
I want to vanish
Badly…but
They await me outside!



POSTUMI DI UN AMORE
(POSTHUME OF A LOVE)

The day goes by
And the memory is warm
Gentle as a breath
It takes us where
Other animals
Laugh
Like us
Loving and hating
And loving this way.

Time passes by
It’s a thorn in the side of decency
Crazy temptation
Wanting to have you back
I’ll wait until tomorrow
Writing
Looking for you, loving you
And hating the reason why.

I’ll open my lips
Furrowed
Of clear dew
Drop after drop
And I, like a flower
I’ll bow on a tear
That will fall
Gentle, slow, sweet like this.



QUESTA E' LA STRADA
(THIS IS THE ROAD)

This is the road
That leads to the sea
A sea of emotions
Strong
Contrasting
Freeing yourself from the shackles of torpor
Putting an alarm to a love story.

That is how life is
Like a river in flood
It leads to the shore
Wreckages of memories.
But my sight shuffles on the asphalt
Lucid,
Moist
And a bit hazy.

This is the road
That leads, away from the honey of those nights
Spent smelling the wind
That now slaps my face
It has the odour of salt
Coming from the friendly sea

I often heard say:
“ If I could go back in time, I’d change
What I did wrong”.
It’s hypocrisy of the lover of steadiness
To leave the sword and take the shield.

There in the middle
The middle of the sea
There is the boat
That waits to draw up.

VENERDI 17

And now Milady,
Those veils on your body
You’re hiding the day
The day that isn’t

You’re beautiful like the sun
Like the sun that isn’t

And now Milady,
Your feet in the grass
Your hiding the night
The night that isn’t

And now Milady,
Of tears and wind
You’re playing with the flame
That I still have for you

You’re beautiful like the sun
Like the sun that isn’t.



L'ALBERO DEI BRADIPI
(THE TREE OF BRADIPES)

I look for
Just a moment
To rest
On this branch
That makes me dance
And with my eyes
Looking up high
My arms up in the air
And a steady hold
It comes
From the heart
This good mood
That pushes me forward
To observe
Under
My lengthy flow
People that run
Following the breeze

And you,
Who look at me
Hung to a dream
Living suspended
Without any need
To make
That “great leap”
To deserve
Your high rent.
I answer you
Without caring
That the foot on the ground
Doesn’t seem very serious to me
Given the height
Of my friend
That on the ground
Lay it’s old wood.

Life,
My beautiful life
Through the leaves
I think of the man
And the tear dries
Like magic
It opens a passage towards joy
Chasing away sadness
Changing it
Into a smile
Of whom doesn’t escape
From your crazy invitation
And through the foliage
I stay,
Sitting still
Saving the moves
And not once I greet you!



VIA!
(AWAY!)

Away
With the need to escape
To follow a dream
Away
The thrill of the day
That eases any expectation

Because hope can never
Never be abandoned
Never…

Solitary, docile emotion
That rises gently and slowly
And away
From the swamp of each heart
To find life under the sun

Because hope can never
Never be abandoned
Never…

Away
Consuming the light of the stars
Reflecting on the skin
In the copper of the evening
Away
Colouring the streets with leather
A new itinerary
And so be it!



PERCHE'
(WHY?)

There she was
With her large clothes
Covering
Her narrow thighs

It was her
With her luggage
Full of dreams

And she was laughing because…

Her writings were about travels
Her cards told stories
Full of meetings
And her hand covering her face
Hiding what
Should have been a smile.

She will look for
Hidden truths
In the eyes of people.

She will find
A great emotion
In no time.

And she will laugh because…



LA NOTTE DEGLI OSCAR
(THE NIGHT OF THE OSCARS)

There are times in which
Thinking of nothing is easy:
As if a plane
Would streak
In your head
Without slipstream
And the thought travels
Like images
In a short film.

There are days in which
The part is very difficult:
From a celebrity
To a victim of the screenplay
And of mad
Incautious
Exits.

And the comedy continues
And the applauds
Fade away.

I am for you
Like an actor in a supporting role
At the Oscars
And my trophy
Is your love.