Lontano, nella notte, oltre la morte
sopra una stella azzurratra esistenze meraviglioseancora quest’anima convulsanelle sue insoffribili vergogneesasperantisenza scampo, per tutto l’universodove dovró passaree il pensiero che infine, nella lucesuprema soffriró ancora il tormentodi non aver urlatoche tanto era inutile.O forse questa vitaè la sola concessae allora mi esaspera, mi taglia il respiro,il pensiero di non aver urlato,per la mia anima vile,confuso a tutti i poveri impotentiche marciscono sulla terra.I translate:
Far, in the night, beyond death
above a blue staramong marvelous existencesagain this convulsive soulwith its insufferable shamesexasperatingwith no escape, in all the universewhere I will have to pass throughand the thought that in the end, in the supremelight I will suffer again the tormentof not having screamedthat so much was useless.Or perhaps this lifeis the only one grantedand so it’ll exasperate me, shorten my breath,the thought of not having screamed,for my debased soul,mixed with all the impotent poorwho march on earth.[A Nuovi Autori video, directed by Andrea Galli, with photography by Bernardo Bertolucci and music by Andrea Galli.]
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