ANTONY – FRANCO BATTIATO – DEL SUO VELOCE VOLO featuring Alice

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ANTONY – FRANCO BATTIATO – DEL SUO VELOCE VOLO
 featuring Alice – con la filarmonica Arturo Toscanini
UNIVERSAL – 0602537627615 – 2013

 

Trattasi della registrazione del concerto tenutosi il 2 settembre 2013 all’Arena di Verona.
Particolare la voce di Antony per dei, a nostro avviso, discreti pezzi (quattro quelli cantati singolarmente). Battiato è Battiato, sia in duetto con Antony (You are my sister, As tears go by e Del suo veloce volo) che con Alice. È proprio con lei, nell’immensa La realtà non esiste del compianto Claudio Rocchi, che il disco tocca la vetta più alta.
Assurda la scelta, sempre a nostro avviso, di inserire nel libretto dei testi, peraltro curato nella grafica e nella fotografia, i soli testi dei brani cantati in inedito con Antony e Alice.
La realtà non esiste giustifica da sola l’acquisto del disco, invero consigliato ai soli collezionisti…
TRACKLIST/TESTI
1 – Cripple and the starfish (Antony and the Johnsons)
Mr. Muscle forcing bursting

Stingy thingy into little me, me, me

But just “ripple” said the cripple

As my jaw dropped to the ground

Smile smileIt’s true I always wanted love to be

Hurtful

And it’s true I always wanted love to be

Filled with pain

And bruises

Yes, so Cripple-Pig was happy

Screamed ” I just compeletely love you!

And there’s no rhyme or reason

I’m changing like the seasons

Watch! I’ll even cut off my finger

It will grow back like a Starfish!

It will grow back like a Starfish!

It will grow back like a Starfish!”

Mr. Muscle, gazing boredly

And he checking time did punch me

And I sighed and bleeded like a windfall

Happy bleedy, happy bruisy

I am very happy

So please hit me

I am very happy

So please hurt me

I am very happy

So please hit me

I am very very happy

So come on hurt me

I’ll grow back like a Starfish

I’ll grow back like a Starfish

I’ll grow back like a Starfish

I’ll grow back like a Starfish

I’ll grow back like a Starfish

I’ll grow back like a Starfish

I’ll grow back like a Starfish

I’ll grow back like a Starfish

Like a Starfish…

2 – For today I am a Boy (Antony and the Johnsons)
 One day I’ll grow up, I’ll be a beautiful woman

One day I’ll grow up, I’ll be a beautiful girl

One day I’ll grow up, I’ll be a beautiful woman

One day I’ll grow up, I’ll be a beautiful girlBut for today I am a child, for today I am a boy

For today I am a child, for today I am a boy

For today I am a child, for today I am a boy

One day I’ll grow up, I’ll feel the power in me

One day I’ll grow up, of this I’m sure

One day I’ll grow up, I know a womb within me

One day I’ll grow up, feel it full and pure

But for today I am a child, for today I am a boy

For today I am a child, for today I am a boy

For today I am a child, for today I am a boy

For today I am a child, for today I am a boy

For today I am a child, for today I am a boy

For today I am a child, for today I am a boy

For today I am a child, for today I am a boy

3 – You Are my Sister (Battiato/Antony and the Johnsons)
You are my sister, we were born

So innocent, so full of need

There were times we were friends but times I was so cruel

Each night I’d ask for you to watch me as I sleep

I was so afraid of the night

You seemed to move through the places that I feared

You lived inside my world so softly

Protected only by the kindness of your nature

You are my sister

And I love you

May all of your dreams come true

We felt so differently then

So similar over the years

The way we laugh the way we experience pain

So many memories

But theres nothing left to gain from remembering

Faces and worlds that no one else will ever know

You are my sister

And I love you

May all of your dreams come true

I want this for you

They’re gonna come true (gonna come true)

4 – Il re del mondo (Battiato)
5 – Tutto l’Universo obbedisce all’amore (Battiato)
6 – As tears go By (Battiato/Antony and the Johnsons)
 It is the evening of the day

I sit and watch the children play

Smiling faces I can see

But not for me

I sit and watch

As tears go byMy riches can’t buy everything

I want to hear the children sing

All I hear is the sound

Of rain falling on the ground

I sit and watch

As tears go by

It is the evening of the day

I sit and watch the children play

Doin’ things I used to do

They think are new

I sit and watch

As tears go by

7 – Crazy in Love (Antony and the Johnsons)
I look and stare so deep in your eyes

I touch on you more and more every time

When you leave I’m beggin you not to go

Call your name two or three times in a row

Such a funny thing for me to try to explain

How I’m feeling and my pride is the one to blame

But I still, don’t understand

Just how your love can do what no on else canGot me lookin so crazy right now, your love

Got me lookin so crazy right now

Got me lookin so crazy right now, your touch

Got me lookin so crazy right now

Got me hoping you page me right now, your kiss

Got me hoping you save me right now

Lookin so crazy, your love’s got me lookin

Lookin so crazy in love

When you talk to my friends so quietly

“Who he think he is?” Look at what you’ve done to me

Tennis shoes, don’t even need to buy a new dress

You ain’t here, ain’t no one else to impress

It’s just the way that you knew what I thought I knew

It’s just the beat that my heart skips when I’m with you

But I still don’t understand

Just how your love can do what no one else can

Got me lookin so crazy right now, your love

Got me lookin so crazy right now

Got me lookin so crazy right now, your touch

Got me lookin so crazy right now

Got me hoping you page me right now, your kiss

Got me hoping you save me right now

Lookin so crazy, your love’s got me lookin

Lookin so crazy in love

Got me lookin so crazy right now, your love

Got me lookin so crazy right now

Got me lookin oh crazy right now, your touch

Got me lookin oh crazy right now

Got me hoping you save me right now, your kiss

Got me hoping you page me right now

Lookin so crazy, you’ve got me lookin

Lookin so crazy in love

Ohoh

Crazy right now

Crazy right now

Lookin

Lookin so crazy

Got me hoping you page me right now

Lookin so crazy, your love’s got me lookin

Lookin so crazy in love

8 – Salt Silver Oxygen (Antony and the Johnsons)
The flying horse carries me across the sky

Triumvirate swallows make our breath

Can we grow a sun

A water run

The Great White Water?

Every slum an ox inside it

Sweet crevice for miniature flies?Dancing with her casket

Christ becomes wife

The easy dust is dancing, too

It splits the waterside in two

Elect the Salt Mother

For She’s a Selective Christ

Punch her ghost!

For sure she’ll sigh

And watch the window gives rise

9 – Del suo veloce volo (Battiato/Antony and the Johnsons)
E chissà dove sarai amico

ripensandoti ti rivedo in me

la visione che avevi dell’amore

la tua ironia, e chissà dove saraiSpesso da ragazzi passavamo insieme

sere inutili e fu in un giorno di

festa per gioco lo so, io lo so

lessi nella tua mano, vidi sulla mano

la tua fine…

E così oggi, dalla mia memoria,

scelgo il meglio della vita

e del suo veloce volo

che finisce come, sempre accade,

troppo presto

Qualcosa un po’ di te

mi è rimasto dentro

indimenticabile per gioco

lo so io lo so

lessi nella tua mano,

vidi sulla mano

la tua fine…

10 – Hope There’s Someone (Antony and the Johnsons)
Hope there’s someone

Who’ll take care of me

When I die, will I goHope there’s someone

Who’ll set my heart free

Nice to hold when I’m tired

There’s a ghost on the horizon

When I go to bed

How can I fall asleep at night

How will I rest my head

Oh I’m scared of the middle place

Between light and nowhere

I don’t want to be the one

Left in there, left in there

There’s a man on the horizon

Wish that I’d go to bed

If I fall to his feet tonight

Will allow rest my head

So here’s hoping I will not drown

Or paralyze in light

And godsend I don’t want to go

To the seal’s watershed

Hope there’s someone

Who’ll take care of me

When I die, Will I go

Hope there’s someone

Who’ll set my heart free

Nice to hold when I’m tired

11 – La realtà non esiste (Battiato/Alice)
Quando stai mangiando una mela tu e la mela siete parti di Dio,

Quando pensi a Dio sei una parte di ogni parte e niente è fuori da tutto

Quando vivi tu sei un centro di ruota e i tuoi raggi sono raggi di vita;

puoi girare solo intorno al tuo perno o puoi scegliere di correre e andare

Quando dormi tu sei come una stella e il respiro è come fuori dal tempo;

Quando ridi è come il sole sull’acqua, sai che farne della vita che hai

Quando ami tu ridoni al tuo corpo quel che manca per riempire un abbraccio,

Quando corri sai essere lepre e lumaca se hai deciso di arrivare o restare

Quando pensi stai creando qualcosa, illusione è di chiamarla illusione,

Quando chiedi tu hai bisogno di dare, quando hai dato hai realizzato l’amore.

Quando gridi la realtà non esiste hai deciso di essere Dio e di creare.

Quando chiami tutto questo reale hai trovato tutto dentro ogni cosa.

12 – I treni di Tozeur (Battiato/Alice)
13 – La cura (Battiato)
14 – E ti vengo a cercare (Battiato)
15 – Bandiera Bianca/Up patriots to arms (Battiato)
16 – Inneres Auge (Battiato)