Thursday, November 7, 2019

Eri con me - You Were With Me

Siamo detriti, relitti umani,
trascinati da un fiume in piena
Che non conosce soste nè destinazione
La nostra mente, le nostre azioni,
sono la 'causa', gli effetti Invece,
il nostro destino
Ciò che deve accadere, accadrà,
qualunque cosa facciamo per evitarlo,
ciò che deve accadere, accadrà
Perchè è già accaduto!

Eri con me, ma io non ero con te
Sei con me, ma io non sono con te
Ero con te, ma tu non eri con me

Viviamo nell'impermanenza,
nell'incertezza della vita condizionata,
ma ci ricorderemo di noi segretamente
Arriverà il giorno atteso
a schiudere gli impediti passaggi
Prepariamoci a nuove esistenze...

Eri con me, ma io non ero con te
Sei con me, ma io non sono con te
Ero con te, ma tu non eri, non eri, con me

Eri con me © 2012 Franco Battiato & Manlio Sgalambro

"Eri con me" was written for Alice's 2012 album Samsara. Battiato presents it here with a different arrangement.

We are detritus, human wreckage,
swept by a river full
that knows no breaks nor destination.
Our mind, our actions,
are the “cause.” The effects, instead,
our destiny,
that which should happen, will happen
no matter what we do to avoid it.
That which should happen, will happen,
because it already happened!

You were with me, but I wasn’t with you.
You are with me, but I am not with you.
I was with you, but you weren’t with me.

We live in impermanence,
in the uncertainty of conditioned life,
but we will remember ourselves secretly.
The long-anticipated day will come
to pry open the blocked passages.
Let’s prepare for new existences . . .

You were with me, but I wasn’t with you.
You are with me, but I am not with you.
I was with you, but you weren’t with me.

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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