Sunday, November 3, 2019

Aurora

Vento, tu che sei passato sul sobborgo
Ed hai abbeverato le colline assetate
Porta a me le cupe nuvole
Affinché le possa riempire d’acqua
Con le mie lacrime

Borghi, verso i quali s’incamminano le disgrazie
Come lupi che s’incamminano nella selva
Là, dove ho accompagnato i leoni all’acqua
Ed ho visitato tane di gazzelle

Dietro di te oh mare, ho un paradiso da scoprire

Dove c’è contentezza e miseria alcuna
Se di giorno penso di conquistare
La sera tu me lo rinneghi
Ho ceduto ai desideri che il mare
mi ha proibito di incontrare

E farò della mezzaluna un battello
Per abbracciare l’ardere di quel fuoco
E farò della mezzaluna un battello
Per abbracciare l’ardere di quel fuoco

Oh tu Aurora portami la luce,
tu Aurora portami la luce

La Mente è qualcosa di stupefacente,
un tesoro che soddisfa il desiderio,
uno scrigno di ogni possibile cosa

Aurora © 2012 Franco Battiato & Manlio Sgalambro

"Aurora" includes some verses from the 11th/12th-century Sicilian Arab poet Ibn Hamdis as adapted by the Palestinian songwriter Nabil Salameh.

Wind, you who passed through the suburb
and saked the parched hills,
bring me dark clouds
so I might refill them with water,
with my tears.

Hamlets, towards which misfortunes set out
like wolves that wander the wilderness.
There, where I accompanied the lions to the water
and visited dens of gazelles.

Behind you, oh sea, I have a paradise to discover.

Where there is contentedness and some sorrow,
if by day I think of conquering,
by night you repudiate me.
I believed in the desires that the sea
kept me from encountering.

And I’ll make of the crescent moon a boat
to embrace the blaze of that fire.
And I’ll make of the crescent moon a boat
to embrace the blaze of that fire.

Oh you, Aurora, bring me the light.
You, Aurora, bring me the light.

The Mind is something amazing,
a treasure that satisfies desire,
a chest of every possible thing.

English translation © 2020 Dennis Criteser



Apriti sesamo was released in 2012. The lyrics were co-written by Battiato and the Sicilian philosopher Manlio Sgalambro.
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