Niente è come sembra - Nothing Is As It Seems

Rovinò lungo la china solo chi ha un destino rovina Non voglio che l'impuro ti colga Ti darò a una rondine in volo Niente è come sembra niente è come appare Perché niente è reale Ti darò a un ruscello che scorre o alla terra piena di mimose Qualcuno si ferma al tuo passare Niente è come sembra niente è come appare Perché niente è reale I was in my car watching for the bend I was looking for you Dal balcone ammiravo il vuoto che ogni tanto un passante riempiva... È stato solo un presentimento ti voglio ricordare che Niente è come sembra niente è come appare Perchè niente è reale Niente è come sembra © 2007 Franco Battiato & Manlio Sgalambro "Niente è come sembra" was inspired by a Buddhist concept that nothing has an inherent existence.

He hurtled along the slope – only one who has a destiny hurtles. I don’t want the impure to take hold of you. I’ll give you to a swallow in flight. Nothing is as it seems, nothing is as it appears, because nothing is real. I’ll give you to a brook that runs to the land full of mimosas. Someone stops as you pass by. Nothing is as it seems, nothing is as it appears, because nothing is real. I was in my car watching for the bend, I was looking for you. From the balcony I admired the emptiness that every now and then replenishes a passerby . . . It was only a premonition, I love to remind you that nothing is as it seems, nothing is as it appears, because nothing is real. 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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