FRANCO BATTIATO – ECHOES OF SUFI DANCES

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FRANCO BATTIATO – ECHOES OF SUFI DANCES
5316292 – 2001
TRACKLIST/TESTI
1 – UP PATRIOTS TO ARMS
The population’s fantasyThat’s finally come to us

Didn’t fall from heaven

Rise up stupid people

The river’s overflowing

And empty heads are floating

And it’s not my fault if

There are executioners

There is imbecility

And park benches are full of

Alienated people

Up patriots to armsThe sky is brown

Contemporary music

gets me down

The Ayotallah Khomeini

To many he’s a saint

You always bite the bait

You build for the middle classes

The barricades in plazas

Which creates false legends of progress

Who do you think we are

Don’t judge me by my car

We are just fireflies

Waiting in the darkness

The capital of music

Finally comes to us

Full of lies and fairytales

All the art directors

Let’s send them in retirement

And all the culture clubs

And it’s not my fault if

There are so many spectacles

With lasers and smoke machines

And if the stages are today

For ungraceful idiots

Up patriots to arms

The sky is brown

Contemporary music

Gets me down

Gets me down…

2 – NO TIME NO SPACE 
Tell me of the existenceOf worlds and planets far away

Of past civilizations

Of continents gone adrift.

Talk to me about love

Tell me more about human love,

Of anomalous travelers

In magical, mystic territories.

Ahead we followed by instinctOnly the comets trail

As vanguards of another system

In search of the end.

No Time No Space

Another race of vibrations,

The sea of the simulation.

Keep your feelings in memory

I love you especially tonight.

The air-traffic controllers

Just ready for take-off

Astrological telescopes

To discover new stars.

Walking Sundays

As a spacer

Ahead.

Ahead we followed by instinct

Only the comets trail

As vanguards of another system

In search of the end.

No Time No Space

Another race of vibrations,

The sea of the simulation.

Keep your feelings in memory

I love you especially tonight.

3 – CHAN-SON EGOCENTRIQUE
Avenue parkMy life in the dark

I with me.

Do you smile

For Arabian style

I like it.

Miami beach boys

Children with toys

Across the universe.

Chan-son egocentriqueself centered song,

Chan-son egocentrique

self centered song.

Who am I?

Where am I

When I’m out of myself?

Where do I come from?

Tell me where I go.

Chan-son egocentrique

self centered song,

Chan-son egocentrique

self centered song.

I come from Sicily

Not far from Africa

I sing for EMI Records;

Slowly the moon

To take our lives again.

Central Park

I love in the dark

Ich bin klein;

People sang

Around the campfire ground

I remember prehistoric sound

Was the time of the dinosaur age

Oh, nein.

Chan-son egocentrique

self centered song,

Chan-son egocentrique

self centered song.

(He tells me)

Oh, I’m so lonely

My heart is breaking,

So…When you see my girl

Tell her that I love her.

4 – THE KING OF THE WORLD
Strange how the rumble of fighter planes onceDisturbed the rhythm of the balconies’ plants

And after silence then far away

The sudden cannon’s roar.

And from the radio signals in code

One day in heaven fires of BengalaPeace came back again

Yet the King of the World

Keeps our hearts enchained.

In the full white dresses

Echoes of sufi dances

In Japan’s undergrounds today

Oxygen machines;

The more all becomes useless

The more we believe it’s true

And in the final days

English will not help.

And on our bicycles heading for home

Life brushed us

Yet the King of the World

Keeps our hearts enchained.

5 – TEMPORARY ROAD
I’m looking for someoneA miracle to send my life

In the curved air.

I’m a lonely boy

Stepping out

Solitary man.

I don’t understand.Life can be short or long

Tomorrow’s another day.

I’m living underground

Like a teddy-boy.

I cross the rainbow

With millions of drivers at the traffic lights

Imprisoned and immobile in their cars

When the traffic’s low

In the city streets

Solitary then I go,

I go through the town.

I don’t understand.

Life can be short or long

Tomorrow’s another day.

I’m living underground

Like a teddy-boy.

From a nearby church’s steeple

Hear the bells are ringing din dan don…

6 – LOVER’S SEASON
Lover’s springtime, lover’s season comes and goes,And our desires never age with time, come what may,

This is so,

For when I think of how I’ve wasted those moments

Lost forever, they’ll never never return.

Lover’s springtime, lover’s season comes and goes,And suddenly you realize, there you are,

In surprise.

Ah how many lost occasions we’ve thrown away,

Never have regrets, never never say die.

Still a new enthusiasm

waits to make your heart beat strong.

Another chance to discover just who you are;

And the horizons you lost will return nevermore.

Lover’s springtime, lover’s season comes and goes,

With all it its wagers and its fears, but this time,

Will it last for long,

For when I think of how I’ve wasted those moments

Lost forever, they’ll never never return.

Ah how many lost occasions we’ve thrown away,

Never have regrets, never never say die.

Still a new enthusiasm

waits to make your heart beat strong.

Lover’s springtime, lover’s season comes and goes,

And our desires never age

with time, come what may,

This is so.

7 – I WANT TO SEE YOU AS A DANCER
I want to see you as a dancerLike the desert gypsy women

Whit candelabras on their heads

Or like the balineses

on their holidays

I want to see you as a dancerLike dervishes tourneurs

Who twist around around their back-bones

To the sound of ankle bracelets of Katakali

The walls are turning turning all around us

As we are dancing

Dancing

The walls are turning turning all around us

As we are dancing

And radio Tirana’s playing

Music from Balkan

For Bulgarian dancers

With bare feet they dance on burning embers

In the oriental island

In sunny summer dance halls

Couples of old folks are dancing

To a rhythm in seven-eight

The walls are turning turning all around us

As we are dancing

Dancing

The walls are turning turning all around us

As we are dancing

In the rhythm of the heath

-the key

Of old tribal magical rites

Kingdoms of the Shamans

And rebel players on the road again

Down across the plainlands

In sunny summer dance halls

Couples of old folks are dancing

A classical Viennese waltz .

8 – THE TRAINS OF TOZEUR
In the frontier villages theyWatch the trains pass by so slowly

And roads are deserted in Tozeur.

From a house far awayYour mother observes me

And she remembers me

For my very special ways

Then for just a moment my longing

To live at another pace begins to waken in me.

Still they pass, still very slowly

the trains for Tozeur.

In the churches, God-forsaken,

Shelters are being prepared and new ships,

For trips among the stars

In an old empty mine,

Vast stretches of salt

And a memory of me

Like into a magic spell;

Then for just a moment my longing

To live at another pace begins to waken in me;

Still they pass, still very slowly

The trains for Tozeur.

In the frontier villages

They watch the trains pass by

For Tozeur.

9 – THE ANIMAL
Living life is not too hardIf I can be born again

Many things could be changed now

A bit of lightness

And less stupidity

Faking, you’re good at fakingWhen you are close to me

You always tell me I’m right

And I’d like to tell you

That I feel better

Alone.

Yes but the animal which is inside me

Won’t let me live in happiness again

He takes all, the coffee too

He renders me a slave of all my passions

He never does give up

He doesn’t want to wait

And still the animal which is inside me

Wants you.

Inside me signs of fire

And water often quenches them

If you want them to burn

You leave them in the air

Or let them be on earth.

       

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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