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Playing The Angel- Depeche Mode

A Pain That I'm Used To

I'm not sure what I'm looking for anymore
I just know that I'm harder to console
I don't see who I'm trying to be instead of me
But the key is a question of control

Can you say what you're trying to play anyway
I just pay while you're breaking all the rules
All the signs that I find have been underlined
Devils thrive on the drive that is fuelled

All this running around, well it's getting me down
Just give me a pain that I'm used to
I don't need to believe all the dreams you conceive
You just need to achieve something that rings true

There's a hole in your soul like an animal
With no conscience, repentance, unknown
Close your eyes, pay the price for your paradise
Devils feed on the seeds that are sown

I can't conceal what I feel, what I know is real
No mistaking the faking, I care
With a prayer in the air I will leave it there
On a note full of hope not despair

All this running around, well it's getting me down
Just give me a pain that I'm used to
I don't need to believe all the dreams you conceive
You just need to achieve something that rings true

All this running around, well it's getting me down
Just give me a pain that I'm used to
I don't need to believe all the dreams you conceive
You just need to achieve something that rings true

Un dolore che conosco già

Non sono più sicuro di cosa sto cercando
So solo che sono diventato più difficile da consolare
Non vedo chi sto cercando di essere al posto di me stesso
Ma la chiave è una questione di controllo

Sai dire chi stai cercando di impersonare, comunque?
Io pago mentre tu infrangi le regole
Tutti i segni che trovo sono stati sottolineati
I demoni prosperano sulla macchina che viene alimentata a dovere

Tutto questo correre qua e là, mi sta facendo sentire abbattuto
Dammi semplicemente un dolore che conosco già
Non mi serve credere a tutti i sogni che concepisci
Tu hai solo bisogno di raggiungere qualcosa che suoni vero

C’è un buco nella tua anima, come un animale
Senza coscienza, pentimento, cose sconosciute
Chiudi gli occhi, paga il prezzo del tuo paradiso
I demoni si nutrono dei semi piantati

Non riesco a nascondere quello che provo, quello che so che è vero
Non si può sbagliare a capire la finzione, a me importa
Con una preghiera nell’aria, lascerò tutto come sta
Su una nota piena di speranza, non disperazione

Tutto questo correre qua e là, mi sta facendo sentire abbattuto
Dammi semplicemente un dolore che conosco già
Non mi serve credere a tutti i sogni che concepisci
Tu hai solo bisogno di raggiungere qualcosa che suoni vero

Tutto questo correre qua e là, mi sta facendo sentire abbattuto
Dammi semplicemente un dolore che conosco già
Non mi serve credere a tutti i sogni che concepisci
Tu hai solo bisogno di raggiungere qualcosa che suoni vero.

Advertising Space - Robbie Williams

There's no earthly way of knowing
What was in your heart
When it stopped going
the whole world shook
a storm was blowing through you
waiting for god to stop this
and up to your neck in darkness
everyone around you was corrupted
say something

there's no dignity in death
to sell the world your last breath
we're still fighting over everything you left

I saw you standing at the gates
when marlon brando passed away
you had that look upon your face
advertising space

no one learned from your mistakes
we let our prophets go to waste
all that's left in any case
is advertising space

through your eyes the world was burning
please be gentle I'm still learning
you seemed to say as you kept turning up
they poison you with compromise
at what point did you realise
that everybody loves your life but you

a special agent for the man
through watergate and vietnam
no one really gave a damn
do you think the CIA did

I saw you standing at the gates
when marlon brando passed away
you had that look upon your face
advertising space

no one learned from your mistakes
we let our prophet go to waste
all that's left in any case
is advertising space

no one learned from your mistakes
we let our prophets go to waste
all that's left in any case
is advertising space

I've seen your daughter man she's cute
I was scared but I wanted to
boy she looks a lot like you

Love will find a way - colonna sonora il re leone 2

In a perfect world
One we've never known
We would never need to face the world alone

They can have the world
We'll create our own
I may not be brave or strong or smart
But somewhere in my secret heart

I know
Love will find a way
Anywhere I go
I'm home
If you are there beside me

Like dark turning into day
Somehow we'll come through
Now that I've found you
Love will find a way

I was so afraid
Now I realize
Love is never wrong
And so it never dies

There's a perfect world
Shining in your eyes
And if only they could feel it too
The happiness I feel with you

They'd know
Love will find a way
Anywhere we go
We're home
If we are there together

Like dark turning into day
Somehow we'll come through
Now that I've found you
Love will find a way

I know love will find a way

Its The End of The World as We Know It - R. E. M.

That’s great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and
Snakes, an aeroplane and lenny bruce is not afraid
Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn - world
Serves it’s own needs, dummy serve your own needs. feed
It off an aux speak, grunt, no, strength, ladder
Start to clatter with fear fight down height. wire
In a fire, representing seven games, a government
For hire and a combat site. left of west and coming in
A hurry with the furies breathing down your neck. team
By team reporters baffled, trumped, tethered cropped
Look at that low playing! fine, then. uh oh,
Overflow, population, common food, but it’ll do. save
Yourself, serve yourself. world serves it’s own needs,
Listen to your heart bleed dummy with the rapture and
The revered and the right, right. you vitriolic,
Patriotic, slam, fight, bright light, feeling pretty
Psyched

It’s the end of the world as we know it
It’s the end of the world as we know it
It’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine

Six o’clock - tv hour. don’t get caught in foreign
Towers. slash and burn, return, listen to yourself
Churn. locking in, uniforming, book burning, blood
Letting. every motive escalate. automotive incinerate
Light a candle, light a votive. step down, step down
Watch your heel crush, crushed, uh-oh, this means no
Fear cavalier. renegade steer clear! a tournament,
Tournament, a tournament of lies. offer me solutions,
Offer me alternatives and I decline

(chorus)
It’s the end of the world as we know it (it’s time I had some time alone)
It’s the end of the world as we know it (it’s time I had some time alone)
It’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine (it’s time I had some time alone)

I feel fine

(repeat chorus)

The other night I dreamt of knives, continental
Drift divide. mountains sit in a line, leonard
Bernstein. leonid brezhnev, lenny bruce and lester
Bangs. birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, boom! you
Symbiotic, patriotic, slam book neck, right? right

(repeat chorus)

It’s the end of the world as we know it
It’s the end of the world as we know it
It’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine (it’s time I had some time alone)

(repeat chorus 2x)

Fine
It’s the end of the world as we know it (it’s time I had some time alone)

Artista: Franz Ferdinand
Titolo: Walk Away
Titolo Tradotto: Mentre Te Ne Vai

Ho barattato la mia innocenza con l’orgoglio
Ho annientato il confine entro il mio passo
Ho detto ‘sono forte ora, so di essere uno che se ne va’
Amo il suono di quando te ne vai
Il mascara tinge di sangue una lacrima annerita
E io sono freddo
Sì io sono freddo
Ma non freddo quanto te
Amo il suono di quando te ne vai

Perché non te ne vai?
Nessun edificio crollerà
Perché non te ne vai?
Nessun terremoto squarcerà il terreno
Perché non te ne vai?
Il sole non ingoierà il cielo
Perché non te ne vai?
Le statue non piangeranno

Non riesco a girarmi per guardare quegli occhi
Come scuse si potrebbero sollevare
Devo essere forte e rimanere incredulo
E amare il suono di te che te ne vai
Il mascara tinge di sangue una lacrima annerita
Io non sono freddo
Io sono vecchio
Vecchio almeno quanto te
Mentre te ne vai

E mentre te ne vai
La mia lapide si sbriciola
Mentre te ne vai
Il vento di Hollywood è un ululato
Mentre te ne vai
Il Cremlino crolla
Mentre te ne vai
Radio 4 è disturbata
Mentre te ne vai

Una puntura d'ago
In una notte silenziosa
Stalin sorride
Hitler ride
Churchill applaude
Mao Tse-Tung
Sullo sfondo

Album: "Golden State"
Artist: "Bush"
Title: "Inflatable"

Let it slide
Overhead
When i believe in you
My soul can rest

But as love
It's really love
It never fails
But fail it does

When we shine
Like the sun
You seem the only one
My only friend

[Chorus]
So pretty in white
Pretty when you're faithful
So pretty in white
Pretty when you're faithful
When you're faithful

I resigned
From myself
Took a break
As someone else

It's like i've come undone
And i've only just become
Inflatable for you

[Chorus]

I don't mind
Most of the time
But you push me so
Far inside

[Chorus]

Nine Million Bicycles - Katie Melua

There are nine million bicycles in Beijing
That's a fact,
It's a thing we can't deny
Like the fact that I will love you till I die.

We are twelve billion light years from the edge,
That's a guess,
No-one can ever say it's true
But I know that I will always be with you.

I'm warmed by the fire of your love everyday
So don't call me a liar,
Just believe everything that I say

There are six BILLION people in the world
More or less
and it makes me feel quite small
But you're the one I love the most of all

[INTERLUDE]
We're high on the wire
With the world in our sight
And I'll never tire,
Of the love that you give me every night

There are nine million bicycles in Beijing
That's a Fact,
it's a thing we can't deny
Like the fact that I will love you till I die

And there are nine million bicycles in Beijing
And you know that I will love you till I die!

Friday I'm In Love - Cure

I don't care if monday's blue
Tuesday's grey and wednesday too
Thursday i don't care about you
It's friday i'm in love

Monday you can fall apart
Tuesday wednesday break my heart
Thursday doesn't even start
It's friday i'm in love

Saturday wait
And sunday always comes too late
But friday never hesitate...

I don't care if monday's black
Tuesday wednesday heart attack
Thursday never looking back
It's friday i'm in love

Monday you can hold your head
Tuesday wednesday stay in bed
Or thursday watch the walls instead
It's friday i'm in love

Saturday wait
And sunday always comes too late
But friday never hesitate...

Dressed up to the eyes
It's a wonderful surprise
To see your shoes and your spirits rise
Throwing out your frown
And just smiling at the sound
And as sleek as a shriek
Spinning round and round
Always take a big bite
It's such a gorgeous sight
To see you in the middle of the night
You can never get enough
Enough of this stuff
It's friday
I'm in love

Sonata Arctica - The Misery

I write the lines you want me to, with the words I dare to use of all
the ones that you have taught me, along the years

You cast a perfect shadow on the paper, fade away with sunlight, I fear
the way you know me, love can leave a stain...

You steal my only hope and make me stay awake another night, I wish you bear with me, stay near me when the Autumn leaves have fallen....
Solitude, my pain, the last thing left of me..

If you fall I´ll catch, if you love I´ll love, and so it goes, my dear,
don´t be scared, you´ll be safe,this I swear. If you only love me

Seven lonely lies written on Deadwinter´s night, open the only book with
the only poem I can read
In blood I sign my name and seal the midnight with a tear, burn the
paper, every line for them I cried…

If you fall I´ll catch, if you love I´ll love, and so it goes, my dear,
don´t be scared, you´ll be safe,this I swear. If you only love me back

I am the Playwrite and you are my Crown, make me cry for your love, like you´ve done many times, so I know I can´t write these storylines without you, Lady pain, make me strong, can´t we be together without them forever…

The words I write can only hurt you, sorry for the rain, thank you, my
only one, you gave me this pain
I leave you gently on the floor, take one step towards the door,
where´s the letter never written, goodnight now…

If you fall I´ll catch, if you love I´ll love, and so it goes, my dear,
don´t be scared, you´ll be safe,this I swear. If you only love me

If you fall I´ll catch, if you love I´ll love, and so it goes, my dear,
don´t be scared,
you´ll be safe,this I swear. If you only love me back

Album: "Carpark North"
Artist: "Carpark North"
Title: "Human"

You're so right and you don't think you're wrong
You're not on the list and you're in my songs
I did right to walk and just leave you there
cause no one can stand your fear of fear

You're so wrong, and still think you're right
I was too old to pick that fight
And I take you touch, just changed your day
I broke off with you cause you didn't change... Me

Yeah! Yes it's human
It's just human
You noticed
Yeah! Yeah just human
Did you notice?
Damn right

You're so right and you don't think you're wrong
You're not on the list, you're not in my songs
I did right to walk and just leave you there
cause no one can stand your fear of fear

(Metallic)
Yeah. Yes it's human
Yes it's human
You noticed

Yeah! Yes it's human
It's just human
You noticed
Yeah! Your just human
Did you notice?
Damn right

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Album: "The Back Room"
Artist: "Editors"
Title: "Blood"

This wicked city
just drags you down
You're with the red lights,
your side of town

Don't say it's easy
to follow a process
There's nothing harder
than keeping a promise

Blood runs through your veins,
that's where our similarity ends
Blood runs through our veins
Blood runs through your veins,
that's where our similarity ends
Blood runs through our veins

There's nothing believable
in being honest
So cover your lies up
with another promise

Blood runs through your veins,
that's where our similarity ends
Blood runs through our veins

Aaaaahhhhhhh

Blood runs through your veins,
that's where our similarity ends
Blood runs through our veins

Blood runs through your veins,
that's where our similarity ends
Blood runs through our veins

Aaaaahhhhhhh

If there's hope in your heart
It would flow to every part
If there's hope in your heart

Ultimamente si sente sempre piu' apostrofare con parole di disprezzo i rom, vorrei riportare qui il testo di una canzone che un grande uomo scrisse insieme a Ivano Fossati.

Fabrizio De Andre' - Khorakhane'
(A forza di essere vento)

"Il cuore rallenta la testa cammina
in quel pozzo di piscio e cemento
a quel campo strappato dal vento
a forza di essere vento

Porto il nome di tutti i battesimi
ogni nome il sigillo di un lasciapassare
per un guado una terra una nuvola un canto
un diamante nascosto nel pane
per un solo dolcissimo umore del sangue
per la stessa ragione del viaggio viaggiare

Il cuore rallenta la testa cammina
in un buio di giostre in disuso
qualche rom sì è fermato italiano
come un rame a imbrunire su un muro

Saper leggere il libro del mondo
con parole cangianti e nessuna scrittura
nei sentieri costretti in un palmo di mano
i segreti che fanno paura
finché un uomo ti incontra e non si riconosce
e ogni terra si accende e si arrende la pace

I figli cadevano dal calendario
Yugoslavia Polonia Ungheria
i soldati prendevano tutti
e tutti buttavano via

E poi Mirka a San Giorgio di maggio
tra le fiamme dei fiori a ridere a bere
e un sollievo di lacrime a invadere gli occhi
e dagli occhi cadere

Ora alzatevi spose bambine
che è venuto il tempo di andare
con le vene celesti dei polsi
anche oggi si va a caritare

E se questo vuol dire rubare
questo filo di pane tra miseria e fortuna
allo specchio di questa kampina
ai miei occhi limpidi come un addio
lo può dire soltanto chi sa di raccogliere in bocca
il punto di vista di Dio"

Cvava sero po tute (poserò la testa sulla tua spalla)
i kerava (e farò)
jek sano ot mon (un sogno di mare)
i taha jek iak kon kasta (e domani un fuoco di legna)
vasu ti baro nebo (perché l'aria azzurra)
avi ker (diventi casa)

Kon ovla so mutavla (chi sarà a raccontare)
kon ovla (chi sarà)
ovla kon ascovi (sarà chi rimane)
me gava palan ladi (io seguirò questo migrare)
me gava (seguirò)
palan bura ot croiuti (questa corrente di ali)

Questa canzone forse farebbe pensare chi ai semafori si limita a guardare schifato questi stranieri.

JESUS OF SUBURBIA
GREEN DAY

[Part 1]

I'm the son of rage and love
The Jesus of suburbia
From the bible of none of the above
On a steady diet of soda pop and Ritalin
No one ever died for my sins in hell
As far as I can tell
At least the ones I got away with

And there's nothing wrong with me
This is how I'm supposed to be
In a land of make believe
That don't believe in me

Get my television fix sitting on my crucifix
The living room or my private womb
While the moms and brads are away
To fall in love and fall in debt
To alcohol and cigarettes and Mary Jane
To keep me insane and doing someone else's cocaine

And there's nothing wrong with me
This is how I'm supposed to be
In a land of make believe
That don't believe in me

[Part 2: City Of The Damned]

At the center of the Earth
In the parking lot
Of the 7-11 were I was taught
The motto was just a lie
It says home is where your heart is
But what a shame
Cause everyone's heart
Doesn't beat the same
It's beating out of time

City of the dead
At the end of another lost highway
Signs misleading to nowhere
City of the damned
Lost children with dirty faces today
No one really seems to care

I read the graffiti
In the bathroom stall
Like the holy scriptures of a shopping mall
And so it seemed to confess
It didn't say much
But it only confirmed that
The center of the earth
Is the end of the world
And I could really care less

City of the dead
At the end of another lost highway
Signs misleading to nowhere
City of the damned
Lost children with dirty faces today
No one really seems to careeeeee

[Part 3: I don't care]

I don't care if you don't
I don't care if you don't
I don't care if you don't care
[x4]

I don't careeeeeeeeee

Everyone is so full of shit
Born and raised by hypocrites
Hearts recycled but never saved
From the cradle to the grave
We are the kids of war and peace
From Anaheim to the middle east
We are the stories and disciples
Of the Jesus of suburbia
Land of make believe
And it don't believe in me
Land of make believe
And I don't believe
And I don't care!
I don't care! [x4]

[Part 4: Dearly beloved]

Dearly beloved are you listening?
I can't remember a word that you were saying
Are we demented or am I disturbed?
The space that's in between insane and insecure
Oh therapy, can you please fill the void?
Am I retarded or am I just overjoyed
Nobody's perfect and I stand accused
For lack of a better word, and that's my best excuse

[Part 5: Tales of another broken home]

To live and not to breathe
Is to die In tragedy
To run, to run away
To find what you believe
And I leave behind
This hurricane of fucking lies
I lost my faith to this
This town that don't exist

So I run
I run away
To the light of masochist
And I leave behind
This hurricane of fucking lies
And I walked this line
A million and one fucking times
But not this time

I don't feel any shame
I won't apologize

When there ain't nowhere you can go
Running away from pain
When you've been victimized
Tales from another broken home

You're leaving...
You're leaving...
You're leaving...
Ah you're leaving home...

SONATA ARCTICA
REPLICA

I'm home again, I won the war, and now I am behind
your door. I tried so hard to obey the law, see the
meaning of it all. Remember me? Before the war.
I'm the man who lived next door. Long ago...

As you can see, when you look at me, I'm pieces of
what I used to be. It's easier if you don't see me
standing on my own two feet. I'm taller when I sit
here still, you ask are all my dreams fulfilled.
They made me a heart of steal, the kind them bullets
cannot see

Nothing's what it seems to be,
I'm a replica, I'm a replica
Empty shell inside of me
I'm not myself, I'm a replica of me...

The light is green, my slate is clean, new life to fill
the hole in me. I had no name, last December, Christmas
Eve I can't remember. I was in a constant pain, I saw
your shadow in a rain. I painted all your pigeons red,
I wish I had stayed home instead.

Nothing's what it seems to be,
I'm a replica, I'm a replica
Empty shell inside of me
I'm not myself, I'm a replica of me...

Are you gonna leave me now, when it is all over
Are you gonna leave me, is my world now over...

Raising from the place I've been, and trying to keep
my home base clean. Now I'm here and won't go back believe.

I fall asleep and dream a dream, I'm floating in a
silent dream. No-one placing blame on me
But nothing's what it seems to be, yeah.

Nothing's what it seems to be,
I'm a replica, I'm a replica
Empty shell inside of me
I'm not myself, I'm a replica of me...

Una canzone che dedico ad una persona a cui ho deciso di dire addio.

Song To Say Goodbye - Placebo

You are one of God's mistakes.
You crying, tragic waste of skin.
I'm well aware of how it aches.
And you still won't let me in.
Now I'm breaking down your door,
to try and save your swollen face.
Though I don't like you anymore
you lying, trying waste of space.

Before our innocence was lost
you were always one of those blessed with lucky 7s,
and the voice that made me cry.
My oh my.

You were mother nature's son.
Someone to whom I could relate.
You're needle and your damage done,
remains a sordid twist of fate,
now I'm trying to wake you up,
to pull you from the liquid sky.
Cause if I don't we'll both end up with just your song to say goodbye.

My oh my. A song to say goodbye,
A song to say goodbye,
A song to say,
Before our innocence was lost you were always one of those blessed with lucky 7's,
and a voice that made me cry.
It's a song to say goodbye.
It's a song to say goodbye.
It's a song to say goodbye.
It's a song to say goodbye.
It's a song to say goodbye.
It's a song to say goodbye.
It's a song to say goodbye.
It's a song to say goodbye.

Testamento Di Tito
Fabrizio de Andrè

"Non avrai altro Dio all'infuori di me,
spesso mi ha fatto pensare:
genti diverse venute dall'est
dicevan che in fondo era uguale.

Credevano a un altro diverso da te
e non mi hanno fatto del male.
Credevano a un altro diverso da te
e non mi hanno fatto del male.

Non nominare il nome di Dio,
non nominarlo invano.
Con un coltello piantato nel fianco
gridai la mia pena e il suo nome:

ma forse era stanco, forse troppo occupato,
e non ascoltò il mio dolore.
Ma forse era stanco, forse troppo lontano,
davvero lo nominai invano.

Onora il padre, onora la madre
e onora anche il loro bastone,
bacia la mano che ruppe il tuo naso
perché le chiedevi un boccone:

quando a mio padre si fermò il cuore
non ho provato dolore.
Quanto a mio padre si fermò il cuore
non ho provato dolore.

Ricorda di santificare le feste.
Facile per noi ladroni
entrare nei templi che rigurgitan salmi
di schiavi e dei loro padroni

senza finire legati agli altari
sgozzati come animali.
Senza finire legati agli altari
sgozzati come animali.

Il quinto dice non devi rubare
e forse io l'ho rispettato
vuotando, in silenzio, le tasche già gonfie
di quelli che avevan rubato:

ma io, senza legge, rubai in nome mio,
quegli altri nel nome di Dio.
Ma io, senza legge, rubai in nome mio,
quegli altri nel nome di Dio.

Non commettere atti che non siano puri
cioè non disperdere il seme.
Feconda una donna ogni volta che l'ami
così sarai uomo di fede:

Poi la voglia svanisce e il figlio rimane
e tanti ne uccide la fame.
Io, forse, ho confuso il piacere e l'amore:
ma non ho creato dolore.

Il settimo dice non ammazzare
se del cielo vuoi essere degno.
Guardatela oggi, questa legge di Dio,
tre volte inchiodata nel legno:

guardate la fine di quel nazzareno
e un ladro non muore di meno.
Guardate la fine di quel nazzareno
e un ladro non muore di meno.

Non dire falsa testimonianza
e aiutali a uccidere un uomo.
Lo sanno a memoria il diritto divino,
e scordano sempre il perdono:

ho spergiurato su Dio e sul mio onore
e no, non ne provo dolore.
Ho spergiurato su Dio e sul mio onore
e no, non ne provo dolore.

Non desiderare la roba degli altri
non desiderarne la sposa.
Ditelo a quelli, chiedetelo ai pochi
che hanno una donna e qualcosa:

nei letti degli altri già caldi d'amore
non ho provato dolore.
L'invidia di ieri non è già finita:
stasera vi invidio la vita.

Ma adesso che viene la sera ed il buio
mi toglie il dolore dagli occhi
e scivola il sole al di là delle dune
a violentare altre notti:

io nel vedere quest'uomo che muore,
madre, io provo dolore.
Nella pietà che non cede al rancore,
madre, ho imparato l'amore".