after 20 years

 

Listen to - ascolta 

This is what I do 

after 20 years 

this is all my truth 

after 20 years 

I have passed through the biggest storms 

I have passed over all the hopes 

but I am still here 

I have changed my rules 

so many times 

the sadness has loomed 

over my sad life 

I have seen people leaving me 

I have prayed gods and cried tears 

but I am still here 

after 20 years 

I am here to say 

I am still a page 

of your giant book my God 

as a leaf of the deep wood 

after 20 year 

nothing really changed 

even if it's changed 

but I am become a man 

without reaching a new land 

It is the same path 

after 20 years 

and the same old room 

when I've fought the fear 

there are signs and also some clue 

that my life will end in this wood 

after 20 years 

I am here to say 

I am still a page 

of your giant book my God 

as a leaf of the deep wood 

after 20 year 

nothing really changed 

even if it's changed 

but I am become a man 

without reaching a new land

My 40th birthday

This is what I call beauty

 

LISTEN TO - ASCOLTA 

This is what I call beauty 

the sweet wind of the west 

the stars over my head 

and noises from the wood, in my ears 

This is what I call beauty 

the shapes of the old oaks 

looming up to the north

and my steps silently losing 

I don't have to think only 

of our misery 

'cause I've always known 

we are eternity 

I don't have to think only 

of my misery 

'cause I always can 

become a better man 

The nights of august are magic 

the falling of the stars 

the warmth so pleasant 

while I can find a rest, for my heart 

I don't have to think only 

of our misery 

'cause I've always known 

we are eternity 

I don't have to think only 

of my misery 

'cause I always can 

become a better man 

To avoid the ravine

 

LISTEN TO - ASCOLTA 

It was one day before 

He said belong to me or go away 

But I wanted to know 

Is my faith enough or I've to pray 

 And that time I felt, I could be aware 

It will be one day before 

that everything would fall apart 

I will try not to bolt 

I will underpin my poor old heart 

And that day we'll know how, to avoid the ravine 

Into our deepest thoughts 

we know what is right and what is true 

and the world outside 

is nothing but a shadow in the blue 

So walking back to my life 

I understand I can't lie 

no more 

I'm enraged to myself 

when I think to all that I have sold out 

without thinking that the time 

like a candle it continuously burns out 

I feel there is a weir 

an unpalatable barrier 

to blow 

I know, one day before 

the angels will say it could be late 

to recover the souls 

and to let them fly over the flames 

It is the only way, to avoid the ravine 

Into our deepest thoughts 

we know what is right and what is true 

and the world outside 

is nothing but a shadow in the blue 

So walking back to my life 

I understand I can't lie 

no more 

I'm enraged to myself 

when I think to all that I have sold out 

without thinking that the time 

like a candle it continuously burns out 

I feel there is a weir 

an unpalatable barrier 

to blow 

When the moon is in the west

LISTEN TO - ASCOLTA 








When the moon is in the west
oh I can dip myself
into this ancient and so sacred land

When the moon is in the west
along this mountains
I like to call my old purity back

When the moon is in the west
a new blend I can have
and I can feel as fierce as accursed

When the moon is in the west
I can pray without rest
to all the gods that speak to me sometimes

When the moon is in the west
I can guess I'm the last
to watch the moon performing its sunset