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going up this stair
sounds come out of nowhere
it's your voice speaking low
it's my voice fading slow
I wish to wake up
and still speak your name
your sad, beautiful eyes
and their tender claim
all the meaningless words on the mobile phone
and the endless wait for a new dawn
I'll wait and stare
wherever everyone else would never stare
I wish to be somewhere else
start again and forget
from above and below
what I learned and thought
you'll never find me
twice in the same view
together with you
in all things we do
all the meaningless words on the mobile phone
and the endless wait for a new dawn
I'll wait and stare
wherever everyone else would never stare
all the meaningless words on the mobile phone
and the endless wait for a new dawn
Come on and walk into this fading night
Gaze at the sun in this flattering sight
I took her by hand and said ‘don’t move so fast
Finds himself caught
too many times
Limited thoughts,
compromised lines
When his eyes close,
when the walls fall,
Everyone knows
that he still hears your call
Someone starts to fade away
(when the walls fall,
he still hears your call)
When his eyes close,
when the dream stalls,
Everyone knows
that he's nowhere to fall
The smell on his clothes
the chill in the air
The feelings that grow,
but are too much to bear
Someone starts to fade away
(when the walls fall,
The flow of consciousness
goes away with a compromise
for each endless hope destroyed
there never was another one to raise
I always looked only into me
or at the horizons away from here
A foolish illusion feeding itself
of something better and nothing to dwell
I was always the solution of my faint belief
the cause, the flame, the wind feeding it
This is the last letter I'll write
tomorrow I'll be in a new life
otherwise I could think it's not real
just the same film on the same reel
This empty cold fear
the same thoughts disappear
I'll stay but I can't realize
are you still there?
am I paralysed?
C'e' una strada vicino casa d'infanzia
che non percorrero' piu'
un libro nella mia stanza
che non apriro' piu'
C'e' una voce
che non potro' piu' ascoltare
una frase mai detta
che non potro' piu' dedicare
Ci sono persone
che non potro' far tornare
luoghi in cui
non potro' piu' camminare
Ci sono amici
che non potro' piu' abbracciare
sensazioni che
vorro' sempre ricercare
Ci sono occhi
che potro' solo ricordare
cose che
potro' solo immaginare
C'e' una porta
che ho chiuso per sempre
senza neanche pensare
c'erano cose dietro
every morning my self destruction grows
days and days asleep
to change the script of this show
the constant contrast too deep
facing the loss from that day, 19 years ago
small workers inside and around
destroying and building again
on more solid ground
I'm leaving you now
departing from here
to avoid admitting that pain
is writing and singing your name
I lived a different world
a different life
not me
dreaming every day
every night
how happy I could be
I heard my ears blown away
the music louder than silence in me
I tried to balance accounts of my life
but a plain blank sheet is all that remained
it's the obsession for desperate hope
for something I couldn't cope
I still hit my head against the wall
'cause I'm so scared to lose your love
but I'm leaving you now
departing from here
to avoid admitting that pain
dark clouds
away and over again
falling leaves
moved by air
a wind from far suddenly appeared
sounds from the sky
in my ears
a well known smell all around in the air
silently... suggesting... invisibly it started to rain
your silence louder than words from your mouth
and the future declined
day after day, month after month
through the maze of your mind
infecting our path with several mines
I know I was wishing to escape
but I fell through the holes I create
it's a pleasing feel to touch your skin
to be here, with you, breathing again
like thousands windows on the infinite time
in the dark sky the stars light shines
bringing us the story of the time before the start
of dead and born worlds
of planets and stars
like thousands windows on the infinite time
in the dark sky the stars light shines
of dying and born worlds
of planets and stars
the reasons to fear
the silence that grows
the hate growing slow
the gap between us
the warmth leaving us
we see what we did
the places we lived
your voice speaking low
my voice leaving noise
the phone in your hand
your path to the end
we left our thoughts
and things flowing through
the faces of friends
the fire on the sand
the stars in the night
planets and skies
is what you believed
to what disappeared
already in the dark
I'm dying in your heart
the summer has gone
and winter will come
depending on what I should feel
on the way on the day I decided to leave
remembering places
where we walked
before
remembering time
when we were in love
draining moods every day
waiting for my drug.
did you ever feel the same?
did I say goodbye?
the wonder flowing slow
the bridges falling down
the empty spaces
of your hate
surrounding walls
you create
do you see me?
please, this is my apology.
it's the way we are now
our winter will come
do you feel the same now?
did I say goodbye?
it's the way we are now
our winter will come
did you ever feel the same?
A cold routine to lie in
a growing apathy killing me
misunderstanding all the way
as the darkness grew day by day
to dicover the fragility
unconscious, unconstant gravity
an unmoving, dirty rain
our quiet and sterile air
You're slowly burning me
you're slowly killing me
dropping bombs from your throat
each bomb falls into my heart
burning everything between
destroying everything within
but the explosion will arrive
.and I'll kill you at last.
it's the cost of your revenge
and I'll pay again your bill
selling out my own solitude
for some warmth into this chill
Staring at the same sight
through these new different eyes
it makes lighter every step
it makes lighter every fight
Sun emerging through the trees
a glimpse of happiness growing free
all inside bringing life
I'm the antidote
to your invisible bane
You're slowly burning me
you're slowly killing me
dropping bombs from your throat
each bomb falls into my heart
burning everything between
destroying everything within
but the explosion will arrive
.and I'll kill you at last.
it's the cost of your revenge
but I'll pay again my bill
selling out my own solitude
so here we are after all those years
and I'm looking again in those eyes
this autumn sea waited for us
we'll never come back
it seems too late, too far
it seems too cold
walking down these stairs outside is morning
I think I never thought it could happen
outside is morning now that things passed through
now I'm again in you
remember moments that last night
paths divided on the edge
defend yourself and kill the rest
it's your rule to survive
turn your head and keep your half
'flowers waving in my childish fields
trains passing by far on the rails
kites were flying high in the sky
it was my game, before that night.
your dresses on the bed
walls deforming, words unsaid
glasses crushing in the night
I was terrified.'
'it's not a matter you'll pay for,
don't take on so' you said on telephone
I'm not angry, I'm now aware
I'm just away, you'll never know where
'flowers waving in my childish fields
trains passing by far on the rails
kites were flying high in the sky
it was my game, before that night.
my dresses on the bed
walls deforming, words unsaid
glasses crushing in the night
I was terrified.'
your dresses on the bed
walls deforming, words unsaid
I didn't want to hear your cry
can you forgive me for that night?
now I'm thinking again
at your poison in vein
at the days passing by
now I'm lost in the night
I can see you in the dim light
and this house is so quiet
I can hear you walking outside
I still see you falling asleep
you left winning your fight
I remember the light
when we walked in the night
and the cold on the street
all the food you won't eat
and the silence you broke
with the sound of your steps
all the dreams that we made
all the times that we played
then that morning arrived
I was ready to go
but you failed to start
I just knew what I saw
I was feeling my legs
disappearing like yours
sliding down on the floor
trying to reach for the door
you were lying on the floor
can't standup anymore.
now I'm walking alone
and the nights are so long
but we'll meet in the skies
and I'll look in your eyes
I still cry in my bed
wish you here with your smell
it's the lightdark
it's the lightdark
.lightdark.
I woke up with your voice
I can't see your face
through the door you entered by
when you say you're not here
when you say you won't hear
laying down on the beach of youth
you should know all the hate
in the nights we escaped by
all the love and revenge
lands below passing by
trashing all the locks and chains
you should know what I know
it's a struggle to let you go
outside the rain
in the morning glow, filling roads
something flows around melting pain
always here when it starts to rain
it's hard to say
the sacrifice
the open windows on the spring air
but silence here has found it's way to stay
the sound of your voice
your face, flowers and sun
I still see your lips moving air
but I'm not here and you're not there
it's hard to say
the sacrifice
the open windows on the spring air
but silence here has found it's way to stay
the sound of your voice
your face, flowers and sun
I still see your lips moving,
I saw you outside in your own reflection
looking for friends without caution
they asked you to try again
you had to stop, but facts remained
you can say I was loosing my fight
you can say I was wrong and you were right
you were lying and keeping away
all the feelings you always complained
you can say you were loosing your mind
you can say you were feeling behind
you were looking for places around
falling down until you hitted the ground
solding out all the emotions
you pictured your life without caption
can't stop this because of the flow, the days,
the options and feels
the way you always deceive
you can say I was loosing my fight
you can say I was wrong and you were right
you were lying and keeping away
all the feelings you always complained
you can say you were loosing your mind
you can say you were feeling behind
you were looking for places remained
My sight is faint, my hearing is gone
It always tries to catch me off guard
But I'm glad my eyes are closed now
To not see or hear the house crumbling down
I'll come downstairs chasing your voice
And I'll find you there reading a book
The light through the windows filling the room
The shell of solitude starting to crack
I'll kiss you on the lips and our time will be back
It grew between us when I was blind by your light
It screams against me behind it's fierce eyes
It never matters how hard the strain
The beast runs towards me hungry in it's pain
Biting and scratching mistaking it's fears
Looking to escape with eyes full of tears
I'll come downstairs chasing your voice
And I'll find you there singing a song
The rain on the windows playing along
The stark inner emptiness falling apart
The rain wakes me up
With it's noise through the wall
No warmth inside and outside the bleached fog
I still hear the tails of your words from last night
I fear that something is lying down behind...
I miss so much the sunsets at home
The long walks on the seashore
The lights the shadows the tears and pain
Misunderstanding what became insane
The voices the fears the eyes and strain
Give in to anger and make ourselves unchained
A distant shout woke up a smile on your face
You bit your lips and your eyes changed
Scared by another ride on your merry go round
Another tide to discover what is the next bound...
I miss so much the sunsets at home
The long walks on the seashore
The lights the shadows the tears and pain
Misunderstanding what became insane
The voices the fears the eyes and strain
Despite the anger I felt inside
the strangest thoughts
when I looked behind
I know I was wrong walking away
but I needed the burn
and the sound of my heart again
But the price was too high
and that fury too wild
just missing a place
where days were not passing by
And these tears you're now showing me
all the wounds that you didn't see
the only reason I walked away
was for you to not hear what I said
I wish it wouldn't hurt again
so much strain I can barely stand
If we only could wipe the phrases we said
forgiving ourselves and laughing again
We'll fly over the sea
and we'll dive into our dreams
and we'll fall asleep
watching the rain feeding trees
And we'll run side by side
leaving traces behind
laughing out loud at our previous attempts
We'll be walking outside
when the first snow starts falling down
and we'll be here and now
I've waited for you
at the airport today
to hear what you wanted to say
I felt you were there
in every voice I heard
I imagined it painless
pleasant out there
But now I know I was wrong
You still lie now that all is gone
It didn't burn what you recalled
I'm glad I didn't feel it at all
Maybe it's time to let things go
Maybe it's time to surrender
To take this plane
and fly away forever
All that hate in your eyes
is like a wave I can't defy
You give your finger
a sign of a never quiet anger
After which all is left is cold
a wing failing to fold
But now I know I was wrong
You still lie now that all is gone
It didn't burn what you recalled
I'm glad I didn't feel it at all
Maybe it's time to let things go
Maybe it's time to surrender
To take this plane
I started all over again
and I did it well without a reclaim
and so I enjoyed life calling that name
I thought you meant it was there to stay
but now you're forcing me to let it go away
I miss the ground
I flew till here with nowhere to land
I need a home
I walked from sand to grass through your world
I don't know where to go or where I come from
without a base, the roots
the ground I rebuilt myself on.after the storm
I feel I walked too long
all my strength is gone
I feel my feet burnt
bleeding under the sun
I don't know if I will escape again
or if I still have a place to remain
I grew used
to her sweet breath
and her delicate laugh
I trusted her words
like a child with his mum
And when the dawn came
and she walked away
I lay down on the floor
I felt my back brake
She said I just got mad
She said she'll be alright
She shouted at me
closing the door.
She took back her book
and waited outside
fighting her wish to come back
She said she's got mad
She said it'll be alright
She tried reminding me
how it began.
She gave back my book
and waited outside
crying in the sun
As I woke up your body was moving on me
Your eyes smiling, that glow I still miss.
Your hair and their smell caressing my face
The room fading away
your hands following a trace.
Whispers were raging
our bodies were burning
Every night in my sleep
you become her and she becomes you
That morning your eyes were so bright.
we used to talk so long
about the things to come
nights flowed into the sea
smiling and feeling free
your eyes too deep to lie
to moments passing by
inviting me near you to see
you started silently
we were lying in the sand
you were holding my hand
you were playing in the sea
always smiling at me
then you fell into the dark
moving and waving your arms
I call your name into my sleep
I'm lying to me
we use to talk so long
about the moments gone
you always tried to melt my pain
love without restraint
your eyes too clear to lie
the friends surrounding smile
inviting me near you to see
we're fading silently
we were lying in the sand
you were holding my hand
you were playing in the sea
always smiling at me
then you fell into the dark
moving and waving your arms
call my name into your sleep
screen blinking bright and tired
like broken ice in thousand forms
reflecting voices we just ignored
now fingers type cold and slow
last row after last row
today is grey outside the windows
and the wind is breaking words and breath
we should have know it's a compromise
now the snow flakes fall from the skies
covering sounds while your echo dies
you came to me and asked why
I'm not with you if even you tried
I'm not with you every new day
I cannot say I can't explain
I still feel the glow of this morning light
I wish I could stay, days are so bright
Maybe it's what light is all about
devouring more life, after every knockout
It got so cold in this room
like the white outside even tears became snow
I looked at the sleeping trees and cars
everything covered, peaceful and quiet
I'll go outside for a walk to nowhere
to find a place for some joy to spare
Or maybe I should escape into space
so those tears will remain in your eyes
In my fears, in my fears I meet you
You're near, you're near and I hold you
On that pier, on that pier falling into the sea
In my fears, on that pier burnt with our dreams.
The fear everyday of what the next one could be
You reminded me of her
I thought I forgot how it feels
Scared every moment to glimpse on your face
that poisoned cast, prelude to rage
It got so cold in this room
like the white outside even tears became snow
I looked at the sleeping trees and cars
everything covered, peaceful and quiet
I'll go outside for a walk to nowhere
to find a place for some joy to spare
Or maybe I should escape into space
so those tears will remain in your eyes
In my fears, in my fears I meet you
You're near, you're near and I hold you
On that pier, on that pier falling into the sea
In my fears, on that pier burnt with our dreams.
In my fears, in my fears I meet you
You're near, you're near and I hold you
On that pier, on that pier falling into the sea