E ti vengo a cercare - And I Come Searching for You

E ti vengo a cercare Anche solo per vederti o parlare Perché ho bisogno della tua presenza Per capire meglio la mia essenza Questo sentimento popolare Nasce da meccaniche divine Un rapimento mistico e sensuale Mi imprigiona a te Dovrei cambiare l'oggetto dei miei desideri Non accontentarmi di piccole gioie quotidiane Fare come un eremita Che rinuncia a sé E ti vengo a cercare Con la scusa di doverti parlare Perché mi piace ciò che pensi e che dici Perché in te vedo le mie radici Questo secolo oramai alla fine Saturo di parassiti senza dignità Mi spinge solo ad essere migliore Con più volontà Emanciparmi dall'incubo delle passioni Cercare l'Uno al di sopra del Bene e del Male Essere un'immagine divina Di questa realtà E ti vengo a cercare Perché sto bene con te Perché ho bisogno della tua presenza E ti vengo a cercare © 1988 Franco Battiato "E ti vengo a cercare" hovers, at first ambiguously, between a worldly falling in love and an otherworldly yearning for spiritual transcendence. The song ends with a fragment of Bach's St. Matthew Passion and makes clear where Battiato is coming from, if there was any doubt after the second verse.

And I come searching for you, even just to see you or to talk, because I need your presence to better understand my essence. This popular feeling is born from divine mechanics. A ravishment mystical and sensual imprisons me to you. I should change the object of my desires, not content myself with small everyday pleasures, make like a hermit who renounces himself. And I come searching for you with the excuse of having to talk to you because I like what you think and what you say, because in you I see my roots. This century now at the end, saturated with parasites, without dignity, it only pushes me to be better with more willpower to emancipate me from the nightmare of passions, to search for the One beyond for better or worse, to be a divine image of this reality. And I come searching for you because I feel good with you, because I need your presence. English translation © 2020 Dennis Criteser Fisiognomica was released in 1988. After 1985's Mondi Lontanissimi, Battiato changed course once again and dedicated himself to working on an opera based on Genesis, a project he'd already begun in 1983. The opera was nearly all-consuming for the next two years and was finally mounted in 1987. Battiato then committed to writing another opera based on the myth of Gilgamesh. However, some non-classical songs were beginning to reappear in his writing, and he decided to produce another "pop" album (the word "pop" must always be in quotes when applied to Battiato), though one that unites pop, operatic, classical, and contemplative music. One that also places spirituality at the core, with lyrics and music that are serious, refined, intimate and more personally direct than Battiato was previously willing to be in his former years of word play, irony, hard-to-understand esoteric references, and fragmentism.

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