Friday, August 2, 2019

Io chi sono? - Who Am I?

Io sono. Io chi sono?
Il cielo è primordialmente puro ed immutabile
Mentre le nubi sono temporanee
Le comuni apparenze scompaiono
Con l'esaurirsi di tutti i fenomeni
Tutto è illusorio privo di sostanza
Tutto è vacuità

E siamo qui ancora vivi di nuovo qui
Da tempo immemorabile
Qui non si impara niente sempre gli stessi errori
Inevitabilmente gli stessi orrori
da sempre come sempre

Però in una stanza vuota
la luce si unisce allo spazio
Sono una cosa sola inseparabili
La luce si unisce allo spazio in una cosa sola

Io sono. Io chi sono?

La luce si unisce allo spazio
in una cosa sola indivisibili

Io sono. Io chi sono?

Io chi sono? © 2007 Franco Battiato & Manlio Sgalambro



I am. Who am I?
The sky is primordially pure and immutable
while the clouds are temporary.
Common occurrences disappear
with the exhaustion of all phenomena.
Everything is illusory, without substance.
Everything is emptiness.

And we are still here alive, here again
from time immemorial.
Here one never learns, always the same mistakes.
Inevitably the same horrors,
since forever as always.

But in an empty room
the light comes together with the space.
I am a thing alone, inseparable.
The light comes together with the space in a single thing.
I am. Who am I?

The light comes together with the space
in a single indivisible thing.

I am. Who am I?

English translation © 2020 Dennis Criteser



Il vuoto was released in 2007. Battiato said of the album, "All of this disc talks 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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