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77
07:33
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I don't wanna try, and I don't wanna fly...I don't wanna ride at all
I don't wanna cry, and I don't wanna climb ...I don't wanna die at all
I don't wanna write, and I don't wanna light...I don't wanna cryme at all
I don't wanna spy, and I don't wanna climb ...I don't wanna lie at all
Any Time At All
Someone’s hanging out from the bridge….
Someone’s singing loud in the street….
Someone’s hanging out from the bridge….
Ladies of The Road seem all the same
Ladies of The Road smile everywhere
Ladies of The Road Any Time At All
Ladies of The Road will not surprised you
Ladies of The Road They never eat
Ladies of The Road They drink Their Tears
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BROKEN SONG
06:18
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When a mechanical toy breaks
You are not forced to throw it
But you cannot use it
You don’t need it, neither for joy nor satisfaction
You cannot dream as before
All the wonderful things you could do
So if your love has come to an end
You are not forced to delete it
But you use it with fatigue, you are not spontaneous
You don’t need it, it doesn’t make you smile anymore
And you can no longer dream as before
All the wonderful things you could do
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EMBRYO
05:44
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All this love
Is all I am,
A ball is all I am.
I'm so new
Compared to you
And I am very small.
Warm glow,
Moon glow,
Always need a little more room.
Waiting here,
Seems like years,
Never see the light of day.
* All around
I hear strange sounds
Come gurgling in my ear.
Red the light
And dark the night
I feel my dawn is near.
Warm glow,
Moon glow,
Always need a little more room.
Whisper low
Here I go,
I will see the sunshine show
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WHAT USE
03:49
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What's the use
Of feeling betrayed
What's the use
Of feeling at all
I'm pacing the floor
I'm wearing it smooth
This is stupid
I think I'll go home
What's the use
Of moving uptown
Fly to Rome
On your credit card
An endless parade
Of lawyers and finance
Plenty of time with nothing to do
Oh Yeah
Give me new noise
Give me new affection
Strange new toys from another world
I need to see more
Than just three Dimensions
Stranger than fiction
Faster than light
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All the World needs is Love
Coming from within
All the World needs is Love
There’s nothing more to win
I see the pain of
The devastating greed
Destroying the Beauty
Of our fellow living beings
No, I refuse
I won’t be part of it
I’ll do my best to heal the wounds
All the world needs is Love
Getting rid of all the hate
Redeem the plague of the atrocities of war
We are responsible for our foolish apathy
It builts the pillars of our sick “economy”
No life really matters when it comes to “green”
No, I refuse
I won’t be part of it
We are all reflections of the same Family
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Absolute loneliness is
Woven through my days.
The horizon is lost,
Poised over
conflicting vertigo
There’s a fine line
At the frontier of knowledge
Truth is a merciless forge.
Calcinated
My bones are, by now.
Amongst ephemeral illusions
I am confounded, dispersed.
I have quit searching
I will sit down, immobile.
I am a bizarre container which
No key can open.
Words
Are alien symbols
They lead to no conclusion.
Though I reveal the signals
They lie inert, misunderstood
obscure, abstruse.
An eternal hourglass
Sets the pulse.
Beyond the event horizon,
What will become of me?
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URBAN SINKHOLE
10:00
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You shouldn’t look around
It’s too dangerous to care
You shouldn’t dare to be kind
Just mind your steps and go home
You have to be careful
Don’t waste your money
Don’t waste your compassion
No mercy for the homeless (people)
They get what they deserve
It’s just God’s will
You are a smart girl
You are so talented
You have a master degree
You wouldn’t want to mingle with
them
would you?
Just turn your eyes
Just turn your eyes away
It’s easier than you think
They just have to sink
Sink down the Hole
Bow down to your Master, girl
Take a deep bow to the Lord
Be a good girl, kiddo, don’t upset
the Holy System
Be as meek as a lamb
It’s their right punishment
It’s impressed in their genes
They’re the losers
They’re just scum
It’s natural selection, you know
They have to go down to the Holy Sink
It’s the Sacred Sinkhole
Our beloved Urban Sinkhole
I will mend their wounds
I will feed their mouths
I will wash their feet
As they were my kin
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ADRIAN
06:18
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Harry takes the hill, and Worry makes a bill,
Something’s always wrong, and teachers kill ’em all,
Flight of a ghost, reminds of ancient wolves,
Hidden fractures loves, disturb the final fall,
And even a melting house, returns to rainy smell,
Older heavy goat, still waving a spectral bell,
solitude learns to be, equal to drop me
Loneliness teaches us to love ourselves and all
And in the end, Adrian learned to land
Adrian learned to fly
Adrian learned to die…….
Adrian moves the mill, but Amy takes a pill
Something Jimi Wrong, and teachers kill Brian all
Janis of a ghost, reminds of ancient Kurt
Hidden fractured loves, disturb the Freaky falls
If you learn to land
If you learn to fly
If you learn to see
Beyond space and in between
If you’re moving in time
If you make no sound
If you don’t leave traces
If you make your perfect crime
along the seven seas
I found nothing
Nothing at all
for your disease
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SUPPER'S ROTTEN
15:24
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Watching out of my surgery window
Hoping for some novelty to pamper my imprisoned spirit
While solid tears scratch under the liquids they cannot encounter
Young old man will not be able to recover, your time now dissolved,
The ever-enjoyed parties, the nightclubs you've never met, the fuck you've never done
And of the classic worker you really have everything except the fourteenth
So this is resignation, this is madness, this is a total lack of dignity
So this is a resignation, this is madness, this is a total lack of dignity
Old Stupid Man Where are you going? You're starting a new walk and you don't know what is there in that old house. What's your name? You're starting a new walk and your spirit's running around...
maybe you'll find your real life, maybe you'll find your real life
So this is resignation, this is madness, this is a total lack of dignity
So this is a resignation, this is madness, this is a total lack of dignity
... resignation, this is madness, this is a total lack of dignity (voce da vecchio)
And you visit only unemployed people who complain continually about their unemployment
But then they send you postcards or whattsapp photos of their trip to the Canaries
With Dad's money, with Dad's sweat, with Dad's infarction, with Dad's legacy
And don't believe anyone will ever reward you
And that's right. Because you would not want to bully your work for your patients
I recommend you a vacation, indeed, just a sabbatical year, where to cultivate the vegetable garden,
clean up your old dirty little house, get some swim, and drink and some healthy fuck.
There is so much humanity in all this and the evening air is inviting.
You can offer the pepperoni to friends along with a delicious roasted bread, Gaeta olives and strong ricotta. It will be beautiful, beautiful.... and wonders much better. Even the stress of the past battles and the injuries of the leaders will appear in a different light.
THIS IS RESIGNATION (voce da vecchio)
REPRISE:
Watching out of my surgery window
Hoping for some novelty to pamper my imprisoned spirit
While solid tears scratch under the liquids they cannot encounter
Young old man will not be able to recover your time now dissolved,
The ever-enjoyed parties, the nightclubs you've never met, the fuck you've never done
And of the classic worker you really have everything except the fourteenth
So this is resignation, this is madness, this is a total lack of dignity… lack of dignity
So this is a resignation, this is madness, this is a total lack of dignity
So this is a resignation, this is madness, this is a total lack of dignity
FINALE x 2:
There is so much humanity in all this and the evening air is inviting.
You can offer the pepperoni to friends along with a delicious roasted bread, Gaeta olives and strong ricotta. It will be beautiful, beautiful.... and wonders much better. Even the stress of the past battles and the injuries of the leaders will appear in a different light.
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Hey, have you ever heard about the tale of the Holy Frog?
No? well... you’re gonna have a very good time, then!
When you’re down and nothing seems to work
Be sure that someone’s always around
You just have to change your attitude
Like a dog you can sniff, bite or piss on whatever bothers you
Whatever troubles you, it pushes you
It pushes you to rise or it makes you fall
You’re the only one who can really work it out!
You know, the choices are ours
We can’t escape this bittersweet truth
Responsibility is a cumbersome mate
She’s like a frog glued to our neck
Oh, she’s like a frog
Huh... Not quite a glamorous puss
Oh, but she’s the Holy Frog
Huh... I’m gonna take it all!
The world we’re livin’ in is such a mess
No-one seems to be accountable
Getting off the hook is the only law
“Your troubles are none of my business, after all”
Someday we’ll drown all in the same pool
And being selfish will mean being fool
The frog will come then, saving us all
Saying : “So, now you need me, after all!”
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SHE'S OUR SISTER
06:49
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Driving home, after rehearsals, sometimes it is so difficult to feel inspired… there are so many things that I don’t understand… I feel like an alien fallen from the sky… Lost… Lonely… too far away from home… but… where’s “Home? What IS “Home”?
I am wondering how we, humans, can suddenly become absolute strangers… you meet someone… you really feel like family… just for a while, everything seems so beautiful, this kind of special connection… like having found someone that really can… UNDERSTAND the weight of living in this world… where the majority of people doesn’t even know who they are, where are they going, they don’t even know that they don’t know… totally DIS-CONNECTED… distant from their true nature… lost in a futile quest for… NOTHING…
Everything has and end, I learned the lesson… goooood girl… even the deepest Love… the most loyal friendships… they come to an end… you know…
Death is the truth that we are all desperately trying to ignore.
But…
She
Is
Our
Sister…
Death is our sister
She is our blessing
She teaches us to let it go
This little ego
This selfish ego of mine
All my self-deceptions
They taught me a lot
I learned how to be honest
Committed
To be honest
I tried to run from my deepest truth
So many times
But it raised from the Abyss like a Relentless Crone
Holding the Mirror
I hold my Fire
Now
I hold my Truth
No-one owes us anything,
Life doesn’t owe us anything
We just have the possibility to do our best
With everything that is given to us
Experiences… lovers… friends… children… parents and relatives… pets…
We will meet, all of us, on the Other Side
Someday…
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12. |
WHAT USE (acoustic)
03:51
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What's the use
Of feeling betrayed
What's the use
Of feeling at all
I'm pacing the floor
I'm wearing it smooth
This is stupid
I think I'll go home
What's the use
Of moving uptown
Fly to Rome
On your credit card
An endless parade
Of lawyers and finance
Plenty of time with nothing to do
Oh Yeah
Give me new noise
Give me new affection
Strange new toys from another world
I need to see more
Than just three Dimensions
Stranger than fiction
Faster than light
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TWENTY FOUR HOURS Fano, Italy
Twenty Four Hours is an Italian progressive rock band with various influences, including the psychedelic one that is the
predominant element.
After their first album, "The Smell of The Rainy Air", vinyl produced in January 1991, the group has acquired a certain notoriety thanks to the welcome of critics signaled the debut of the band among the best releases of 1991. See Wikipedia for details.
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