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. |
Franco Battiato - musician, singer/songwriter, composer of electronic, avant-garde and classical music, filmmaker, painter, student of history and of esoteric and spiritual traditions. Battiato was by turns intellectual, poetic, visceral and meditative; his musical journey and artistic voice are absolutely unique in the landscape of Italian pop music. His career was marked by multiple reinventions as he followed his muse for over fifty years of making music and meaning.
Friday, October 4, 2019
Inneres Auge - The Inner Eye
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