Mi sembra di viaggiare In zone rarefatte del pensiero Dove si affina la mia disposizione a vivere Che si inebria di stili e discipline In un insieme irridente di parche voglie Celebro il mio vanto i miei sensi la mia unicità Furono giorni di stanchezza assurda e depressiva Di una totale mancanza di lucidità Quando ti chiedi in qualche letto sconosciuto Che cosa hai fatto e perchè vivi in tanta estraneità Sapessi che dolore l'esistenza Che vede nero dove nero non ce n'è Il fatto è che non posso più tornare indietro Che non riesco a vivere con te né senza di te Credimi Ma io vorrei essere un'aquila Vedere il piano del mondo che inclina verso di noi E le leggi che si inchinano Lanciarmi a inseguire il tuo deserto E i poteri solenni E le porte dorate Cominciare di nuovo il viaggio Stage Door © 1998 Franco Battiato & Manlio Sgalambro "Stage Door" is about states of being that allow one to decouple from needless suffering, through perhaps a meditative discipline or service. It originally appeared as part of a 4-song "single" with other songs from the Gomalacca album. |
I seem to travel in rarefied zones of thought where is refined my availability to live, which gets drunk on styles and disciplines, in a mocking set of park cravings. I celebrate my glory, my senses, my uniqueness. There were days of tiredness, absurd and depressed, of a total lack of lucidity, when you ask yourself in some unfamiliar bed what you are doing and why you live in such alienation. I knew what sadness existence, that sees black where there is no black. The fact is that I can no longer turn back, I can’t manage to live with you or without you. Believe me. But I would like to be an eagle, seeing the plan of the world that tilts toward us, and the laws that bow down, launching myself to follow your desert and the solemn powers and the golden doors, to begin again the voyage. 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.
Wednesday, October 2, 2019
Stage Door
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