Il vuoto - Emptiness

Tempo non c'è tempo sempre più in affanno Inseguo il nostro tempo vuoto di senso senso di vuoto E persone quante tante persone un mare di gente nel vuoto Year play rest my way day thing man your world life The hand part my child eye woman cry place work weekend your end case point government tu sei quello che tu vuoi the company my company ma non sai quello che tu sei Number group the problem is in fact money money money…… Danni fisici psicologici collera e paura stress Sindrome da traffico ansia stati emotivi Primordiali malesseri pericoli imminenti E ignoti disturbi sul sesso Venti di profezia parlano di Dei che avanzano Year play rest my way day thing man your world life The hand part my child eye woman cry place work weekend your end case point government tu sei quello che tu vuoi the company my company ma non sai quello che tu sei Number group the problem is in fact money money money…… Tempo non c'è tempo sempre più in affanno Inseguo il nostro tempo vuoto di senso senso di vuoto Danni fisici psicologici collera e paura stress Sindrome da traffico ansia stati emotivi Primordiali malesseri pericoli imminenti E ignoti disturbi sul sesso Il vuoto © 2007 Franco Battiato & Manlio Sgalambro The idea for "Il vuoto" came from a study done by Oxford on the 100 most used words in the world. Battiato took the top 20 and rearranged and built on them. They are sung by the members of the group MAB, who also played on the track.

Time, there is no time, always more in trouble. I follow our time empty of sense, sense of emptiness. And people, how many, so many people, a sea of people in the emptiness. Year play rest my way day thing man your world life the hand part my child eye woman cry place work weekend your end case point government (you are that which you want) the company my company (but you don’t know what you are) number group the problem is in fact money money money . . . Damages physical and psychological, rage and fear, stress, syndromes from traffic anxiety, emotional states, primordial discomforts imminent dangers, and unknown disturbances around sex. Winds of prophesy talk of Gods that advance. Year play rest my way day thing man your world life the hand part my child eye woman cry place work weekend your end case point government (you are that which you want) the company my company (but you don’t know what you are) number group the problem is in fact money money money . . . Time, there is no time, always more in trouble. I follow our time empty of sense, sense of emptiness. Damages physical and psychological, rage and fear, stress, syndromes from traffic anxiety, emotional states, primordial discomforts imminent dangers, and unknown disturbances around sex. English translation © 2020 Dennis Criteser Il vuoto was released in 2007. Battiato said of the album, "All of this disc is talking essentially of emptiness. And for "emptiness" I don't mean only that as it relates to thoughts or considerations of a philosophical order, but precisely the problems and circumstances that each one of us is obligated to live every day." And of course there's the flip side of this negative emptiness: the emptiness one can reach through meditation which then allows the realization of new possibilities. The lyrics are again a collaboration between Battiato and the Sicilian philosopher Manlio Sgalambro.

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