And looking at it from the park in Via del Cardo
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And there the sun was a herald, the song of heat
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And the sky dripped tiredly over the cars
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His pale mark on every glance
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And everything there was gray and white
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Offices and traffic, each park was a graveyard
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And each building a barracks, a box
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An exhausted pachyderm made of lime and asbestos
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I will run away from this free port, inauspicious place
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Prepare the eye for impact
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Suburbs of rivers and waste
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Jerky light trails
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Paths of wolves grazing and in disarray
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And this space crushes dreams in two minutes
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One on top of the other as on the tape (as on the marble)
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By pulverizing them in an upward launch
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Like in a flash
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And confetti in the soul
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And a wind warmed his morning thoughts
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And there Paolo looked at the world sitting on a cast iron bench
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"Will I ever be able to escape this line?"
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The contours of my life on the edges of this gray province
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Or will I stay here like station moss?
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With the joy that melts after hours behind the counter
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Or with boredom that gets stuck in people's eyes
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Then it comes out in the dark in the smoke of the foils
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Only the Scirocco wind gives me hope
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He who passes and warms every land by touching it
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The only one capable of escaping over these streets
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That even when he remains on site, after a while he manages to leave
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He who breathes and dances, turns and gets up
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Match rain drops with air lines
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That crosses time and the sea, the storm and the mountains
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Then he stops to flirt with sails in the docks "
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And Paolo looked at the neighborhood, the boundaries getting tighter
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And friends get more ghosts and the profiles of the eternit roofs
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"What are you waiting for? |
quickly leave effects and affections "
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Via the two-stroke Benelli padlocks without the mirrors
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It was a good day there when he started the bike
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Those who saw him on the street asked: "Where are you going Paul?"
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«I will follow the wind and I have no purpose and I have no place
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But I have a detailed map to be able to never return "
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And away from here, away from here, away from here
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I travel on the air roads
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Going towards utopia
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Away from here, away from here, away from here
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But tell me where, eeh!
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And away from here, away from here, away from here
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I travel on the highways
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Towards unknown routes, man
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And away from here, away from here, away from here
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But tell me where, see!
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This world, unregulated
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He has a face, cracked
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Beasts, in prisons that pray in apnea
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Parties in this crumbling archipelago
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That the emptiness around him creates him to feel like Pangea afterwards
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Paul will hear moans coming from
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Submerged continents that sing the verses of that epic
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Now that he's on a salty lawn that will count
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Wind roses grow between high and low tide
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The twilight that was awakened was the audience
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Of an audience that then presented itself as a starry sky
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A veil, Paolo stiffened every muscle and accelerated
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Going from the damaged asphalt to the dirt road
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Black, like a hole inside the dark while at the corners
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In the woods the old proverbs of trees could be heard
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You have never destroyed all monsters by copying them
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The weapons you bought now you throw away, confetti
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The audience of stars, applauding, left the theater
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The dawn that began to self-withdraw in a nuanced way
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And at the last stroke Paul asked that dawn was breaking
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A final touch up to the painting
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The bike was found but was not damaged
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It was a huddle in the middle of a road with no carriageway
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The embittered city, the mortuary atmosphere in the shadows
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The gray province wept: it knew no air roads
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Understood? |
What Paul said at that dawn
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Who as a painter seemed uninhibited, foolish!
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«Also paint me as transparent as a word
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But paint me forever as the Scirocco wind
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No, it's not an important concept that I won't come back to
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I will be neither semester nor easy to teach
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And going hand in hand with the Levant and the South
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That I want to tear up the sea and launch it against the Mistral
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I want to blow, inflate, water every candle
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Steal fire leaves leaving a wax trunk
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I stole that night just for you
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The windiest rose from the salty meadow of rosebushes "
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The dawn detaching a petal to the south-east
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And using it as a brush she painted the story to the great sailors
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Now it is said that there is a wind that carries
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A map with the right route
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To be able to never return
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And away from here, away from here, away from here
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I travel on the air roads
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Going towards utopia
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Away from here, away from here, away from here
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But tell me where, eeh!
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And away from here, away from here, away from here
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I travel on the highways
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Towards unknown routes, man
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And away from here, away from here, away from here
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But tell me where, see! |