Friday, October 4, 2019

Inneres Auge - The Inner Eye

Come un branco di lupi
che scende dagli altipiani ululando
O uno sciame di api accanite
divoratrici di petali odoranti
Precipitano roteando come massi
da altissimi monti in rovina
Uno dice che male c'è
a organizzare feste private
Con delle belle ragazze per allietare
Primari e Servitori dello Stato?
Non ci siamo capiti
E perché mai dovremmo pagare
anche gli extra a dei rincoglioniti?
Che cosa possono le Leggi
dove regna soltanto il denaro?
La Giustizia non è altro
che una pubblica merce
Di cosa vivrebbero ciarlatani e truffatori
Se non avessero moneta sonante
da gettare come ami fra la gente

La linea orizzontale ci spinge verso la materia
Quella verticale verso lo spirito

Con le palpebre chiuse s'intravede un chiarore
Che con il tempo e ci vuole pazienza
Si apre allo sguardo interiore:
Inneres Auge, Das Innere Auge

La linea orizzontale ci spinge verso la materia
Quella verticale verso lo spirito

La linea orizzontale ci spinge verso la materia
Inneres Auge
Quella verticale verso lo spirito
Das Innere Auge

Ma quando ritorno in me, sulla mia via
A leggere e studiare,
ascoltando i grandi del passato...
Mi basta una sonata di Corelli,
perchè mi meravigli del Creato!

Inneres Auge © 2009 Franco Battiato & Manlio Sgalambro

"Inneres Auge" recycles a few verses already used in "L'ignoto" on the Campi Magnetici album, verses that come from Sgalambro's book Opus Postumissimum. The song rails against a political class dedicated to the all-expenses-paid satisfaction of their baser instincts, and offers spiritual practice or the contemplation of art as routes of escape.

Like a pack of wolves
that descends howling from the high planes.
Or a swarm of fierce bees,
devourers of fragrant petals,
they rain down swirling like masses
from the highest mountains in ruin.
One says what harm is there
in organizing private parties
with some beautiful girls to brighten up
wards of the State or civil servants?
There’s been a misunderstanding,
and why should we ever pay
even the extras and some stoners?
What can the Law do,
where only money reigns?
Justice is nothing more
than a public commodity.
On what would charlatans and tricksters live
if they didn’t have hard cash
to throw out like fishhooks amongst the people.

The horizontal line pushes us towards the material,
the vertical one towards the spiritual.

With eyelids closed, one catches sight of a glow
that with time, and it takes patience,
opens to the interior view:
Inner Eye, the Inner Eye.

The horizontal line pushes us towards the material,
the vertical one towards the spiritual.

The horizontal line pushes us towards the material.
Inner Eye.
The vertical one towards the spiritual.
The Inner Eye.

But when I return to myself, on my path,
to read and to study,
listening to the great ones of the past . . .
I only need a sonata by Corelli,
so that I marvel in the Creation!

English translation © 2020 Dennis Criteser



Inneres Auge - Il tutto è più della somma delle sue parti (Inner Eye - The Whole Is More Than the Sum of Its Parts) was released in 2009. The album consists of two originals, one cover and reworkings of previously released songs.
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