'U cuntu - The Tale

’U sennu Stamu piddennu ’u sennu Ti ni stai accuggennu Unni stamu jennu a finiri ‎’Ccu stu munnu ca sta ’mpazzennu Luceunu ’i stiddi dda La’ luntanu supra ’u mari Li cosi cari parunu cchiù beddi Nan sacciu cchi fu a ieri visti ’a motti Addummisciuta ’nda ’na gnuni Nan si uosi arrusbigghiari Hic et nunc non habeo dispositionem mentis Latus mundi insanus est Malus imbutus malis libidinibus.‎ 'U cuntu © 2009 Franco Battiato & Manlio Sgalambro "'U cuntu" is a song in the Sicilian dialect, with some Latin at the end. Battiato imagined the Latin section as if it were spoken by "fathers of the desert, against the most vulgar worldliness, the shallow sexuality."

Sense, we are losing all sense. You’re realizing where we are going to end up with this world that’s going crazy. The stars shone distant above the sea, dear things seem more beautiful. I don’t know if it was yesterday I saw death asleep in a corner, it didn’t want to waken. Here and now I don’t have the disposition of mind, the flank of the world is crazy, negatively inspired by foul passions. 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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