Monthly Archives: November 2007

i heard there was a secret chord
that david played and it pleased the lord
but you don’t really care for music, do you
well it goes like this the fourth, the fifth
the minor fall and the major lift
the baffled king composing hallelujah

hallelujah…

well your faith was strong but you needed proof
you saw her bathing on the roof
her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you
she tied you to her kitchen chair
she broke your throne and she cut your hair
and from your lips she drew the hallelujah

hallelujah…

baby i’ve been here before
i’ve seen this room and i’ve walked this floor
i used to live alone before i knew you
i’ve seen your flag on the marble arch
but love is not a victory march
it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah

hallelujah…

well there was a time when you let me know
what’s really going on below
but now you never show that to me do you
but remember when i moved in you
and the holy dove was moving too
and every breath we drew was hallelujah

well, maybe there’s a god above
but all i’ve ever learned from love
was how to shoot somebody who outdrew you
it’s not a cry that you hear at night
it’s not somebody who’s seen the light
it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah

hallelujah…

He came riding fast like a phoenix out of fire flames
He came dressed in black with a cross bearing my name
He came bathed in light and the splendor and glory
I can’t believe what the lord has finally sent me

He said dance for me, fanciulla gentil
He said laugh a while, i can make your heart feel
He said fly with me, touch the face of the true god
And then cry with joy at the depth of my love

Cause i’ve prayed days, i’ve prayed nights
For the lord just to send me home some sign
I’ve looked long, i’ve looked far
To bring peace to my black and empty heart

My love will stay till the river bed run dry
And my love lasts long as the sunshine blue sky
I love him longer as each damn day goes
The man is gone and heaven only knows

Cause i’ve cried days. i’ve cried nights
For the lord just to send me up some sign
Is he near? is he far?
Bring peace to my black and empty heart

So long day. so long night
Good lord, be near me tonight
Is he near? is he far?
Bring peace to my black and empty heart

Underneath your dreamlit eyes
Shades of sleep have driven you away.
The moon is pale outside
And you are far from here.
Breathing shifts your careless head
Untroubled by the chaos of our lives.
Another day - another night
Has taken you again my dear.
And you know that Im gonna be the one
Wholl be there
When you need someone to depend upon
When tomorrow comes…
When tomorrow comes…

Wait till tomorrow comes - yea yea…
Wait till tomorrow comes - yea yea…

Last night while you were
Lying in my arms
And I was wondering where you were
You know you looked just like a baby
Fast asleep in this dangerous world.
Every star was shining brightly
Just like a million years before.
And we were feeling very small
Underneath the universe.
And you know that Im gonna be the one
Wholl be there when you need
Someone to depend upon
When tomorrow comes…
When tomorrow comes…

Gelidi tramonti

Un tempo erano fuoco sulla terra

Gelidi i tuoi occhi

Due orbite in un gelo senza luce

Nel tuo cuore il vento

Due impulsi … spenta civiltà

Questo vuoto esploderà

Muoiono le stelle

Tra gli ultimi bagliori e un assordante nulla

So che non mi senti

Noi ci riscalderemo tra i rottami ardenti

Questo vuoto esploderà

Gelidi tramonti

Un tempo erano fuoco sulla terra

Muoiono le stelle

Dagli ultimi bagliori

Un assordante nulla

Questo vuoto esploderà

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Today I feel good

Oh, boulevards de Paris
Nel tempo senza eta`
Corteo di maschere colora i muri
E’ il carnevale
C’e` chi danza e chi canta
Siamo gli angeli
Vogliamo vendetta, cherie cherie
Per questo inferno
Oh, boulevards de Paris
Un po’ uomo, un po’ animale
A cavallo di un drago
La tentazione non puo` far male
A Paname, a Paname
Grognards et grenadiers sont fous de moi
A Paname, Paname
Pendant la nuit des revolutionaires
Paname, Paname
A Paname blase`
Oh boulevards de Paris
Nel tempo senza eta`
Saremo armati
Saremo l’ incubo degli annoiati
C’e` chi danza e chi canta
Siamo gli angeli
Vogliamo vendetta, cherie cherie
Et guerre
A Paname, a Paname
Grognards et grenadiers sont fous de moi
A Paname, Paname
Pendant la nuit des revolutionaires
N’oubliez pas, n’oubliez pas
Grognards et grenadiers sont fous de moi
Paname, Paname
A Paname blase`
Saremo tempesta, tempesta e calore
La ghigliottina di ogni legge morale
A Paname, a Paname
Grognards et grenadiers sont fous de moi
A Paname, Paname
Pendant la nuit des revolutionaires
Paname, Paname
A Paname blase`

(Drupal 30.10.2007)

Momenti di essere. Scritti autobiografici, Virginia Woolf,  La Tartaruga Edizioni, pag. 184

Molto presto dopo la morte di Stella capimmo che dovevamo conquistarci qualche piccolo spazio su cui poggiare i piedi in quell’incomprensibile, frustrante gorgo. Ogni giorno si battagliava per conquistare cose che sempre ci venivano strappate, o contraffatte. L’ostacolo più incombente, la pietra più opprimente posata sopra la nostra vitalità nella lotta per la sopravvivenza era naturalmente il babbo. Credo che non passasse giorno senza che facessimo i nostri piani strategici: sarebbe stato fuori il babbo all’arrivo di Kitty Maxse o Katie Thynne? Dovevo proprio passare il pomeriggio a vagare per i Kensington Gardens? Il vecchio signor Bryce era invitato per il tè? Come riuscire a far salire le amiche direttamente nello studio - cioè la stanza dei giochi? Non si poteva evitare Brighton per Pasqua? E così via - giorno dopo giorno cercavamo di sottrarci al peso di quel tremendo ostacolo. E su tutta la settimana incombeva l’orrore, il terrore ricorrente del mercoledì. Era il giorno in cui si mostravano al babbo i conti della settimana. Già dal mattino sapevamo se si era superato o meno il segnale di guardia - undici sterline se ben ricordo. I mercoledì neri l’ora del pranzo passava nell’anticipazione della tortura. I libri dei conti gli venivano sottoposti subito dopo il pranzo. Lui inforcava gli occhiali. Poi leggeva le cifre. Il suo pugno si abbatteva sul libro mastro. Gli si gonfiavano le vene; il volto s’infiammava. Si udiva un ruggito inarticolato. Poi il grido…”Sono rovinato.” Poi si batteva il petto. Poi dava inizio a una magistrale drammatizzazione di autocommiserazione, orrore, collera. Vanessa stava ritta al suo fianco in silenzio. Lui la assaliva con rimproveri, insulti. “Non provi un pò di pietà per me? Te ne stai lì come un pezzo di pietra…” e così via. Lei rimaneva immobile nel più assoluto silenzio. Lui le gettava in faccia tutte le frasi fatte che le circostanze gli suggerivano, sullo scherzare col fuoco, sulla propria miseria e gli sprechi di lei. Lei rimaneva immobile. Allora lui cambiava tattica. (…) Io non riuscivo a articolare parola. Mai ho provato tanta rabbia e frustrazione. Perchè non una parola di quello che provavo - un disprezzo senza limiti per lui e compassione per lei - poteva essere espressa.

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Lie awake in bed at night
And think about your life
Do you want to be different?
Try to let go of the truth
The battles of your youth
‘Cause this is just a gameIt’s a beautiful lie
It’s the perfect denial
Such a beautiful lie to believe in
So beautiful, beautiful it makes me
It’s time to forget about the past
To wash away what happened last
Hide behind an empty face
Don’t ask too much, just say
‘Cause this is just a game
Everyone’s looking at me
I’m running around in circles, baby
A quiet desperation’s building higher
I’ve got to remember this is just a game

So beautiful, beautiful… 

(Drupal 29.10.2007)

..and I go out the door and into the street and into the world, never to return there again, not in this life or any life. I find my car, get in, drive away thinking, now if that wasn’t hell then hell isn’t going to be so bad. 

 Coffeshop

 

(Drupal 29.10.2007)

Foglie d’erba, Walt Whitman, La Grande Poesia, Rizzoli, pag. 210

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Out of the cradle endlessly rocking,

Out of the mocking-bird’s throat, the musical shuttle,

Out of the Ninth-month midnight,

Over the sterile sands and the fields beyond, where the

child leaving his bed wander’d alone, bare-headed,

barefoot,

Down from the shower’s halo,

Up from the mystic play of shadows twining and twisting as if they were alive,

Out from the patches of briers and blackberries,

From the memories of the bird that chanted to me,

From your memories sad brother, from the fitful risings and fallings I heard,

From under that yellow half-moon late-risen and swollen as if with tears,

From those beginning notes of yearning and love there in the mist,

From the thousand responses of my heart never to cease,

From the myriad thence-arous’d words,

From the word stronger and more delicious than any,

From such as now they start the scene revisiting,

As a flock, twittering, rising, or overhead passing,

Borne hither, ere all eludes me, hurriedly,

A man, yet by these tears a little boy again,

Throwing myself on the sand, confronting the waves,

I, chanter of pains and joys, uniter of here and hereafter,

Taking all hints to use them, but swiftly leaping beyond them,

A reminiscence sing. 

(Drupal 28.10.2007) 

 Amy Winehouse

He left no time to regret
Kept his dick wet
With his same old safe bet
Me and my head high
And my tears dry
Get on without my guy
You went back to what you knew
So far removed from all that we went through
And I tread a troubled track
My odds are stacked
I’ll go back to black

We only said good-bye with words
I died a hundred times
You go back to her
And I go back to…..

I go back to us

I love you much
It’s not enough
You love blow and I love puff
And life is like a pipe
And I’m a tiny penny rolling up the walls inside

We only said goodbye with words
I died a hundred times
You go back to her
And I go back to

Black, black, black, black, black, black, black,
I go back to
I go back to

We only said good-bye with words
I died a hundred times
You go back to her
And I go back to

We only said good-bye with words
I died a hundred times
You go back to her
And I go back to black

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