"Disappear in the sun"

Non so che estate sarà, questa. E sinceramente non ho più voglia di fare previsioni, tantomeno progetti. Un giorno dopo l'altro, diceva il poeta. 

Sicuramente questo pezzo però sarà nella mia top ten di fine anno 2021, sia la canzone, sia il video.

(Attenzione: la faranno anche gli Anaïs, in versione Anaïs, ovviamente.)

C'è una luce che non si spenge mai

 

Come diceva anche Vera Vittoria Rossa, accompagnata dalla mia indolente chitarra, tanti anni fa, in questo video.

Appeso alla luna

Del concerto di questo Primo Maggio 2021 molto più dell'uscita di Fedez su Lega e gay mi ha colpito e mi resterà nel cuore il contributo dei Zen Circus: canzone, location, e poi l'introduzione di Emily Dickinson, mi ha steso. Ma io sono "un accendino senza sigarette".

Keep on pushing the sky away

"Like dreaming of angels"

Light reflects from your shadow

It is more than I thought could exist

You move through the room

Like breathing was easy

If someone believed me

They would be

As in love with you as I am

They would be

As in love with you as I am

They would be

As in love with you as I am

They would be

In love, love, love

And everyday

I am learning about you

The things that no one else sees

And the end comes too soon

Like dreaming of angels

And leaving without them

And leaving without them

Being

As in love with you as I am

Being

As in love with you as I am

Being

As in love with you as I am

Being

As in love, love, love

Love, love, love

Love, love, love

And with words unspoken

A silent devotion

I know you know what I mean

And the end is unknown

But I think I'm ready

As long as you're with me

Being

As in love with you as I am

Being

As in love with you as I am

Being

As in love with you as I am

Being

As in love, love, love

Good morning Genova

I (pochi) vantaggi di svegliarsi all'alba a Genova per andare a lavorare altrove. 

Quanto bisogno abbiamo di un po' di bellezza, ora che il divertimento in socialità è un ricordo del Novecento?

"Ti stavo allucinando?"

Was it a trick of light

By the blood red moon?

Was it lack of sleep

Dreams come too soon?

When I turned to speak

You passed right through me

Was I hallucinating you?

Was it alcohol

Or a failing mind

Too many loveless days

Too close behind?

Were you conjured by the fumes

Of too many smoked filled rooms?

Was I hallucinating you?

Like a vision come

Silent in your steps

Shimmered like a fire

Heat-haze at your edge

Where you protecting me

From something I couldn't see

Was I hallucinating you?

Buon compleanno Emily

 

Il mio corpo è una gabbia

I feel unsteady

Celeste - Both Sides of the Moon (Live)

L'ultimo giorno di ferie dell'estate 2020

Nothing I am

Nothing I dream

Nothing is new

Nothing I think or believe in or say

Nothing is true

It used to be so easy

I never even tried

Yeah it used to be so easy

But the last day of summer

Never felt so cold

The last day of summer

Never felt so old

Never felt so...

All that I have

All that I hold

All that is wrong

All that I feel for or trust in or love

All that is gone

It used to be so easy

I never even tried

Yeah it used to be so easy

But the last day of summer

Never felt so cold

The last day of summer

Never felt so old

The last day of summer

Never felt so cold

Never felt so

"Il mondo può fare a meno di te. E anche tu di lui"

 

Ho scritto MI AMO sulla sabbia

L'estate no di un anno no

No, quest'estate niente foto idilliache da Stintino come questa dell'anno scorso: quest'estate si resta in Continente, per grossi problemi di salute in famiglia. Questo saltare le mie tradizionali vacanze nella amata Sardegna, attesissima occasione annuale di ricarica-batterie (particolarmente scariche quest'anno), è la ciliegina sulla torta, il degno completamento di un anno difficilissimo che non vedo l'ora di lasciarmi alle spalle.

Buona estate 2020 a voi: la mia è forse la peggiore di sempre. 

E' questa la tua tanto celebrata estate?

Love and hate was in the air, like pollen from a flower
Somewhere in April time, they add another hour
I guess I better think up a way to spend my time
Just when I'm ready to sit inside, it's summertime
Should I go swimming or get a friend to hang around
It's back to summer, it's back to basics, hang around
Getting drunk out on the beach, or playing in a band
And getting out of school meant getting out of hand
Was this your celebrated summer? Was that your celebrated summer?
Then the sun disintegrates between a wall of clouds
I summer where I winter at, and no one is allowed there
Do you remember when the first snowfall fell?
When summer barely had a snowball's chance in hell?

La terza stagione di Dark

Da ieri si rientra nel mondotempo di Dark. Visti solo i primi due episodi per ora, lasciandomi confuso e stranito, ancora più confuso e stranito di quanto il Covid e la ripartenza mi abbiano reso.

Vediamo se andando avanti la confusione si dissolve. Sia in Dark, sia nella vita.

L'ultima canzone

Nei commenti a questo video su YouTube troverete anche il mio "This is the song that I want to be played at my funeral". Lo dissi anche a Steve Wynn, l'autore, che sorrise lusingato e imbarazzato allo stesso tempo.

Tonight we define the sentence of time
Gracefully part from the rest
You wear the things you wore in your dreams
The way they'll remember you best
No regrets, no remorse
No need to put up a fight
It's the last thing we'll do
So make sure that we're doing it right
Last exit please, the greatest of ease
Seal it with a kiss
Cause tonight, tonight we'll follow the light
To someplace better than this
Look at the way the others have gone
Dying and crawling alone
You swore you'd never end up like them
Finding that you might be wrong
No regrets, no remorse
No need to put up a fight
It's the last thing we'll do
So make sure that we're doing it right
Last exit please, the greatest of ease
Seal it with a kiss
Cause tonight, tonight we'll follow the light
To someplace better than this

Difficile volare

Please give me a second grace
Please give me a second face
I've fallen far down
The first time around
Now I just sit on the ground in your way
Now if it's time to recompense for what's done
Come, come sit down on the fence in the sun
And the clouds will roll by
And we'll never deny
It's really too hard for to fly.
Please tell me your second name
Please play me your second game
I've fallen so far
For the people you are
I just need your star for a day.
So come, come ride in my my street-car by the bay
For now I must know how fine you are in your way
And the sea sure as I
But she won't need to cry
For it's really too hard for to fly.

Beside you

I been hungry way down in my heart
Waiting for a reason
I been hungry like a lot of guys
I want to be beside you
Lonely people pass me in the street
Waiting for a reason
Beside you
Grey is turning to blue
You wake up love in me
Beside you
Everything is new
You wake up love in me
I been hungry way down where it hurts
Waiting for a reason
I been hungry like a lot of guys