Five Song Meme - the end
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damigella[In unrelated news, I bought 2kg of cherries, 2kg of nectarines, and 1kg of apricots (1kg is 2.2 pounds). I love summer.
And I spent almost one hour having an apéritif in an outdoors café with my husband.]
Fiume Sand Creek, Fabrizio de André.
The text is too painful to translate. Let me just say that fiume means river, and the final verse is "Now our children sleep in the bottom of the Sand Creek River". A fantastic song when you need a really good cry.
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Fool On The Hill, The Beatles. For some reason I always thought it was a song about Newton discovering gravitation and putting the final nail in the coffin of the geocentric system [The fool on the hill sees the sun going down - and the eyes in his head see the world spinning round.]
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La Fata, The Fairy, Edoardo Bennato
This is from an album inspired by Pinocchio - a much darker history than you would believe after watching the Disney version (Pinocchio is originally a death!fic; the author changed the ending after the readers protested, LOL). It is about the oppression of women.
Partial translation:
since forever you're the one to pay
if you want to fly they pull you down
if they have a witch hunt you're the witch
Some exalt you, some adore you,
some expose you in a shop window
they say it's love, but I say no
you cannot call such a thing love.
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Firenze (canzone triste) Florence (sad song) Ivan Graziani
It's a story of the singer (probably a male university student) and a (male) Irish philosophy student sharing their love for the same woman, who's in Florence as an art atudent. She leaves, the Irishman leaves, and the singer is alone, and he has no one to share memories with except the town that has seen their love. I mostly like the youtube video, because I so miss my home town. Although I was never in a relationship when there. I left before turning eighteen. Plus, I like the idea of a woman having two boyfriends and finally dumping the both once she realizes she doesn't want to be where she is.
And I spent almost one hour having an apéritif in an outdoors café with my husband.]
Fiume Sand Creek, Fabrizio de André.
The text is too painful to translate. Let me just say that fiume means river, and the final verse is "Now our children sleep in the bottom of the Sand Creek River". A fantastic song when you need a really good cry.
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Fool On The Hill, The Beatles. For some reason I always thought it was a song about Newton discovering gravitation and putting the final nail in the coffin of the geocentric system [The fool on the hill sees the sun going down - and the eyes in his head see the world spinning round.]
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La Fata, The Fairy, Edoardo Bennato
This is from an album inspired by Pinocchio - a much darker history than you would believe after watching the Disney version (Pinocchio is originally a death!fic; the author changed the ending after the readers protested, LOL). It is about the oppression of women.
Partial translation:
since forever you're the one to pay
if you want to fly they pull you down
if they have a witch hunt you're the witch
Some exalt you, some adore you,
some expose you in a shop window
they say it's love, but I say no
you cannot call such a thing love.
__________
Firenze (canzone triste) Florence (sad song) Ivan Graziani
It's a story of the singer (probably a male university student) and a (male) Irish philosophy student sharing their love for the same woman, who's in Florence as an art atudent. She leaves, the Irishman leaves, and the singer is alone, and he has no one to share memories with except the town that has seen their love. I mostly like the youtube video, because I so miss my home town. Although I was never in a relationship when there. I left before turning eighteen. Plus, I like the idea of a woman having two boyfriends and finally dumping the both once she realizes she doesn't want to be where she is.
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Date: 2011-05-30 09:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-31 04:58 am (UTC)Glad you liked it.
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Date: 2011-05-31 03:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-31 04:42 pm (UTC)