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"Shadows of faces faces of sailors where you come from where are you going?
From a place where the moon is shown naked and the night pointed the knife at our throat
and to mount the donkey is still God. The Devil is in heaven and there he built the nest ... "
The song opens with the lament of a lone Gaida, bagpipes in use among the shepherds of Thrace, which generates a sound similar to that of launeddas sardines. The bass introduces the rhythm typical of the "tammurriata" Neapolitan, with a slower pace and with the addition of Mediterranean sounds highly accessible inlaid with bouzouki between a verse and the next.
E 'of the sailors returning home after months at sea. The land always produced in them a sense of distrust, hostility towards a changing world, they are so used to a close this immutable in the shell of the hull. And the eye obliquely observes the "foreigners" with suspicion, that "people of Lugano, pickpocket faces, those who prefer the bass of the wing and girls of good families, the Uptown, so holy and unreachable" which You can watch them without a condom. " The return home is also an opportunity to savor the food for too long forgotten, poor food, remedied, but tasty ...
"And what will give to these empty bellies what to drink, what to eat
fried fish, white Portofino lamb brains in the same wine
lasagne to be cut to four sauces pasticcio of sweet and sour rabbit with tiles. ... "
And the wine is water in which to drown the boredom of the navigation bars to pass the time, but nostalgia always crouching at the side, waiting for yet another return ...
"And we will sail in the boat of wine on the rocks emigrants of laughter with nails in our eyes
until the morning will grow that you can collect brother of carnations and of girls
Lord of the rope running water and salt that binds us and brings us into a creuza de mä ... "
"... and-go, and-go-, e-e-e-go, and-oh ...."
The song ends with the atmosphere, the smells, sounds and voices from the fish market in Piazza Cavour in Genoa. |