GOTHICA LYRICS

1. Nel Buio

Siedi qui, vicino a me,
parlami del cielo, dei tuoi viaggi e poi di poesia.
Dimmi prima che tutto svanisca,
esiste l'infinito nel buio.

"Sit down here, near to me,
talk me about the sky, your travels and about poetry.
Tell me before everything vanishes,
infinity exists in the darkness."

2. The Cliff of Suicide

When everything is bathed in colour
And a blinding golden path
Shines from the sky onto the sea,
To the white shingle beach which is below you,
Blood stains stand out every so often: red poppies.

In your deep tomb, receive the young corpses
Of those who are tired of living, those who can't find consolation
In the marvel of your sunsets.

Wings flutter among the ears of wheat
Like the wind which ripples the sea
And vertically over it
There's the cliff of suicide
On the water more blue than the sky.

3. Deep Lakes of the Soul

4. Cosmic Harmony

A gentle throb, a warm breath,
The consciousness of travelling,
Of the mysterious end
Distinguish us from cold shadows.

Mute voices in the universe,
So different, so anonymous.
Creators in the arts:
Orphic, evocative spell.

It's cosmic harmony which gets lost
Into the infinite emptiness.

5. Under the Dock Leaves

You slide across the branches,
Your glitter is fertile pollen,
You're shadows in the shape of leaves.
A wind that ripples the crest of waves against the current,
You caress the rivers but you are the springs.

Your eyes: buds which are moistened by the dew,
Beyond webs of obscurity.

The branches swing you
Then you glide on your transparent wings.

6. The Monk

[I. Into the church of the Capuchins]
[II. Antonia]
[III. The Bleeding Nun]
[IV. Covenant]

Somnia, terrores magicos, miracula, sagas,
Nocturnos lemures, portentaque.
[lines by Horat]

Agitur animus in noctem et
Tenebrae oboriuntur.
[lines by Seneca]

"Dreams, magic terrors, spells of mighty power,
Witches, and ghosts who rove at midnight hour."

"The mind gets confused and
wanders groping in a thick darkness."

7. Harmattan

8. The Land Beyond

From the rugged mountains,
Down to the valley,
Amongst the fresh clouds
Which cross my body,
The wind doesn't let me breathe
And I dream of dying.

Everyday I want to enjoy
That sensation of mystery
Which I perceive sometimes,
So strongly,
It swells my heart,
Forgetting that there's no going back.

Delicious dream erases my fear
Of the end which is coming.

9. La Vida Es Sueño

[Lines by Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600-1681]
Qué es la vida? Una ilusión,
una sombra, una ficción,
y el mayor bien es pequeño
que toda la vida es sueño
y los sueños sueños son.

No temáis, no, de que os falte
compañía en las desdichas,
pues en duda semejante
de vivir o de morir,
no sé cuáles son más grandes.

"What is life? An illusion,
a shadow, a fiction,
and the greatest good is worth nothing at all,
for the whole of life is just a dream
and dreams are only dreams.

Don't fear to be alone
in your misfortune,
because I don't know
if there can be greater worries
than that of hovering
between life and death."

10. Where the Lilies Fade

[Lines by Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830-1894]
Thou sleepest where the lilies fade,
Thou dwellest where the lilies fade not:
Sweet, when thine earthly part decayed
Thy heavenly part decayed not.

Thou dwellest where the roses blow
The crimson roses bud and blossom:
While on thine eyes is heaped the snow -
The snow upon thy bosom.







GOTHICA LYRICS