Bob Dylan
Hurricane
["Desire", 1976]

Pistol shots ring out in the barroom night
Enter Patty Valentine from the upper hall.
She sees the bartender in a pool of blood,
Cries out, "My God, they killed them all!"
Here comes the story of the Hurricane,
The man the authorities came to blame
For somethin' that he never done.
Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a been
The champion of the world.

Three bodies lyin' there does Patty see
And another man named Bello, movin' around mysteriously.
"I didn't do it," he says, and he throws up his hands
"I was only robbin' the register, I hope you understand.
I saw them leavin'," he says, and he stops
"One of us had better call up the cops."
And so Patty calls the cops
And they arrive on the scene with their red lights flashin'
In the hot New Jersey night.

Meanwhile, far away in another part of town
Rubin Carter and a couple of friends are drivin' around.
Number one contender for the middleweight crown
Had no idea what kinda shit was about to go down
When a cop pulled him over to the side of the road
Just like the time before and the time before that.
In Paterson that's just the way things go.
If you're black you might as well not show up on the street
'Less you wanna draw the heat.

Alfred Bello had a partner and he had a rap for the cops.
Him and Arthur Dexter Bradley were just out prowlin' around
He said, "I saw two men runnin' out, they looked like middleweights
They jumped into a white car with out-of-state plates."
And Miss Patty Valentine just nodded her head.
Cop said, "Wait a minute, boys, this one's not dead"
So they took him to the infirmary
And though this man could hardly see
They told him that he could identify the guilty men.

Four in the mornin' and they haul Rubin in,
Take him to the hospital and they bring him upstairs.
The wounded man looks up through his one dyin' eye
Says, "Wha'd you bring him in here for? He ain't the guy!"
Yes, here's the story of the Hurricane,
The man the authorities came to blame
For somethin' that he never done.
Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a been
The champion of the world.

Four months later, the ghettos are in flame,
Rubin's in South America, fightin' for his name
While Arthur Dexter Bradley's still in the robbery game
And the cops are puttin' the screws to him, lookin' for somebody to blame.
"Remember that murder that happened in a bar?"
"Remember you said you saw the getaway car?"
"You think you'd like to play ball with the law?"
"Think it might-a been that fighter that you saw runnin' that night?"
"Don't forget that you are white."

Arthur Dexter Bradley said, "I'm really not sure."
Cops said, "A poor boy like you could use a break
We got you for the motel job and we're talkin' to your friend Bello
Now you don't wanta have to go back to jail, be a nice fellow.
You'll be doin' society a favor.
That sonofabitch is brave and gettin' braver.
We want to put his ass in stir
We want to pin this triple murder on him
He ain't no Gentleman Jim."

Rubin could take a man out with just one punch
But he never did like to talk about it all that much.
It's my work, he'd say, and I do it for pay
And when it's over I'd just as soon go on my way
Up to some paradise
Where the trout streams flow and the air is nice
And ride a horse along a trail.
But then they took him to the jailhouse
Where they try to turn a man into a mouse.

All of Rubin's cards were marked in advance
The trial was a pig-circus, he never had a chance.
The judge made Rubin's witnesses drunkards from the slums
To the white folks who watched he was a revolutionary bum
And to the black folks he was just a crazy nigger.
No one doubted that he pulled the trigger.
And though they could not produce the gun,
The D.A. said he was the one who did the deed
And the all-white jury agreed.

Rubin Carter was falsely tried.
The crime was murder "one," guess who testified?
Bello and Bradley and they both baldly lied
And the newspapers, they all went along for the ride.
How can the life of such a man
Be in the palm of some fool's hand?
To see him obviously framed
Couldn't help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land
Where justice is a game.

Now all the criminals in their coats and their ties
Are free to drink martinis and watch the sun rise
While Rubin sits like Buddha in a ten-foot cell
An innocent man in a living hell.
That's the story of the Hurricane,
But it won't be over till they clear his name
And give him back the time he's done.
Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a been
The champion of the world

Massive Attack
Angel
["Mezzanine", 1998]

You are my angel
Come from way above
To bring me love

Her eyes
She's on the dark side
Neutralize
Every man in sight

To love you, love you, love you

You are my angel
Come from way above

To love you, love you, love you

Interpol
Evil
["Antics", 2004]

Rosemary
Heaven restores you in life
You're coming with me
Through the aging, the fearing, the strife
It's the smiling on the package
It's the faces in the sand
It's the thought that moves you upwards
Embracing me with two hands
Right will take you places
Yeah maybe to the beach
When your friends they do come crying
Tell them now your pleasure's set up on slow-release

Hey wait
Great smile
sensitive to fate not
Denial
But hey who's on trial?

It took a life spent with no cellmate
The long way back
Saying me "Why can't we look the other way?"

We speaks about travel
Yeah, we think about the land
We smart like all peoples
Feeling real tan
I could take you places
Do you need a new man?
Wipe the pollen from the faces
Make revision to a dream while you wait in the van

Hey wait
Great smile
sensitive to fate not
Denial
But hey who's on trial?

It took a life spent with no cellmate
To find the long way back
Saying me "Why can't we look the other way?"
You're weightless, you are exotic
You need something for which to care
Saying me "Why can't we look the other way?"

Leave some shards under the belly
Lay some grease inside my hand
It's a sentimental jury
And the makings of a good plan
You've come to love me lightly
Yeah you've come to hold me tight
Is this motion everlasting
Or do shutters pass in the night?

Rosemary
Oh heaven restores you in life

I spent a lifespan with no cellmate
The long way back
Saying me "Why can't we look the other way?"
You're weightless, semi-erotic
You need someone to take you there
Saying me "Why can't we look the other way?"
Why can't we just play the other game?
Why can't we just look the other way

Afterhours
Elymania
["Hai paura del buio?", 1997]

Silenzio pornografico
Risvegliami, raccoglimi

Hai la rivoluzione in te
Mi convinci a risorgere
Gioia sperimentale le
Le tue mani sopra di me
L'errore più geniale
L'errore più geniale

Giocattolo vibrante in te
Cola miele che sa di me

Hai la rivoluzione in te
Mi convinci a risorgere
Gioia sperimentale le
Le tue mani sopra di me
L'errore più geniale
L'errore più geniale
L'errore più geniale in cui cadere

Cos'hai per me
Che sa di te?

Sei la rivoluzione che
Mi convince a risorgere
Gioia sperimentale le
Le tue mani sopra di me
L'errore più geniale
L'errore più geniale
L'errore più geniale in cui cadere

Smashing Pumpkins
Quiet
["Siamese dream", 1993]

Quiet
I am sleeping
In here
We need a little hope

For years
I've been sleeping
Helpless
Couldn't tell a soul

Be ashamed
Of the mess you've made
My eyes never forget, you see
Behind me

Silent
Metal mercies
Castrate
Boys to the bone

Jesus
Are you listening?
Up there
To anyone at all

We are the fossils
The relics of our time
We mutilate the meanings
So they're easy to deny

Be ashamed
Of the mess youve made
My eyes never forget, you see
Behind me

Quiet
I am sleeping
Quiet
I am sleeping
Quiet
I don't trust you
I can't hear you

Be ashamed
Of the mess you've made
My eyes never forget, you see
Behind me

Behind me
The grace of falling snow
Cover up everything you know
Come save me from the awful sound
Of nothing

Verdena
Onan
["Solo un grande sasso", 2001]

ora sembra inutile
ora voli al limite
ora che ti sentirei più che mai
ebbene ti raggiungerei

mi spremi e inventi nuvole
e mi illudo spesso come se...

poi la vertigine
non è più semplice
ora svuoto gli occhi miei
onan vorrei
ebbene ti raggiungerei

mi spremi e inventi nuvole
e mi illudo spesso come se non c'è
io ti raggiungerei

non è più possibile
sembri impenetrabile
ora chiedimi perchè
non è più così semplice
dovrei sopravvivere
ora giuro è impossibile
se ti raggiungerei

mi spremi e inventi nuvole
e mi illudo spesso come se

non è più possibile
sembri impenetrabile
ora chiedimi perchè
non è più così semplice
dovrei sopravvivere
ora giuro è impossibile
se ti raggiungerei

mi spremi e inventi nuvole
e mi illudo spesso come se
la tua vertigine
non è mai stata semplice per me

Afterhours
Bianca
["Non è per sempre", 1999]

Sei il colore che non ho
e non catturerò
ma se ci fosse un metodo
vorrei che fosse il mio

Fanne quel che vuoi, di noi
me l'hai insegnato tu
se c'è una cosa che è immorale
è la banalità
lo sai
lo sai

Che tu sei troppo bianca per restare
mano nella mano con te stessa
e non voglio certo che tu sia
la mia più bella cosa mai successa

Sei il colore che non ho
e che vorrei essere io
ma se ti rende libera
ti regalo il mio
lo sai
lo sai

Che tu sei troppo bianca per restare
mano nella mano con te stessa
e non voglio certo che tu sia
la mia più bella cosa mai successa

Tu sei troppo bianca per restare
mano nella mano con te stessa
e non voglio certo che tu sia
la mia più bella cosa mai successa

vedrai...
vedrai...
vedrai...

Interpol
Say hello to the angels
["Turn on the bright lights", 2002]

I want your silent parts
The parts the birds love
I know there's such a place

I had my back turned
You didn't realize
I'm lonely

You lack the things
To which I relate
But I see no harm

Come wait, come wait, come wait
It's over.
Yeah one...two...three...do me

When I'm feeling lazy, it's probably because,
I'm saving all my energy to pick up
When you move into my airspace
You move into my airspace

And something's coming over me, I see you in the doorway
I can't control the part of me that swells up
When you move into my airspace
You move into my airspace

But each night, I bury my love around you...
Oh each night, I bury my love around you...
You're linked to my innocence

This is a concept
This is a bracelet
This isn't no intervention
This is a concept
This is a bracelet
This isn't no intervention

This isn't you yet
What you thought was such a conquest
You're hair is so pretty and red
Baby, baby you're really the best...

Can I get there this way?
I think so
Can I get there this way?
I think so
Can I get there this way?
Can I get there this way?
Can I get there this way?
Can I get there this way?

We should take a trip now to see new places
I'm sick of this town
I see my face has changed
We should take a trip now to see new places
I'm sick of this town
I see my face has changed

Say hello, say hello, to the angels
Say hello, say hello, to the angels

Verdena
Cara prudenza
["Solo un grande sasso", 2001]

A quanto pare sei
più lucida di me
così lo scoprirai
da te, da te

sei consapevole
di non sentirti più
in me, in me

e in ogni crimine
che sei
e in ogni crimine
che fai

la mia mediocrità
è la mia agilità
sei porpora oh dio
chi sei, chi sei

allenati con me
immergimi nei tuoi
perchè, perchè

e in ogni crimine
che sei
e in ogni crimine
che fai

ma ancora io non so
le cose che dirò
di te

CCCP
Sono come tu mi vuoi
["Compagni, cittadini, fratelli, partigiani", 1985]

io sono un vuoto a perdere
uno sporco impossibile
un marchio registrato
un prodotto di mercato
io sono un punto fermo
una realtà di base
un dato di fatto
un dato per perso
non ho codice segreto
nè codice cifrato
io cerco centri di gravità permanenti
io sono una pratica evasa
non sono come tu mi vuoi
io sono una vertenza chiusa
non sono come tu mi vuoi
sono un vicolo cieco
non sono come tu mi vuoi
un pozzo senza fondo
non sono come tu mi vuoi
non sono un vuoto a perdere
nè uno sporco impossibile
nè un marchio registrato
nè un prodotto di mercato
non sono un punto fermo
nè una realtà di base
nè un dato di fatto
nè un dato per perso
ho un codice segreto
ho un codice cifrato
non cerco centri di gravità permanenti
non sono una pratica evasa
non sono una vertenza chiusa
sono come tu mi vuoi
non sono un vicolo cieco
sono come tu mi vuoi
nè un pozzo senza fondo
sono come tu mi vuoi

Skin
Trashed
["Fleshwounds", 2003]

I’m like a soldier
With no cause to fight
Playing with bar boys
To test you just right

I watch your features
I check for a sign
Of some kind of failure
Then I feel sublime

Now I know I have to live without you
I can only bend so far
Guess it’s time to make some moves
without you
Now you’ve gone and trashed my heart

Solid demeanour
I look good a feat
Still I’m too vicous
To take on defeat

Yes I hear
You don’t feel this any more
I see
There’s nothing to believe in anymore
Just two snitches on heat
Still avoiding the grief
Because it felt so hard

Verdena
Balanite
["Il suicidio dei samurai", 2004]

Sono steso su un cielo-fan
che opportunamente ho disteso per me
ora commentami un giorno come non lo hai fatto mai
io lo spero ancora, ancora

Spesso dormo su un cielo-fan
qui le cose sfuggono e non mi spiego perché
se puoi condensa il giorno, con me non lo hai fatto mai
e fa male ancora

Eppure non stai per piangere
torna la libidine prima o poi
lo spero per te finta comodità
torna la libidine prima o poi

Ho sonno e dormo un po’ di più
perdo la lucidità ma la ritrovo sempre
l’orrore scenico perde tutta la comicità
ed io mi chiedo perché

Davvero non stai per piangere
torna la libidine prima o poi
lo spero per te finta comodità
torna la libidine prima o poi
prima o poi
prima o poi
prima o poi (ho sonno e dormo)
prima o poi (ho sonno e dormo)

SubsOnicA
Colpo di pistola
["Microchip emozionale", 1999]

Ritorno sui miei passi
E adesso contali bene
Il tempo che è passato
Non è una buona ragione
Ho idea che non mi basti
Lo scambio di un'opinione
E neanche l'imbarazzo
Con cui mi mostri le scuse

La muta del serpente
Nasconde il tuo vero nome
Di chiacchiere suadenti
Sono già stato a lezione
Baciando la fiducia
Con un rasoio a due lame
Hai fatto molta strada
Sacrificato persone

Tutta la tua arrogante danza danza
La sicurezza di chi è sempre a tempo
Il giusto slalom sfavillante e attento
Di chi da sempre intona l'ultima parola

Ti farò male più di un colpo di pistola
È appena quello che ti meriti
Ci provo gusto me ne accorgo ed allora
Non mi vergogno dei miei limiti e lividi
Come ti gira dopo un colpo di pistola
Ti vedo un po' a corto di numeri
Ci provo gusto me ne accorgo ed allora
Non mi seccare coi tuoi alibi alibi

Durante questo tempo
Ho vomitato rancore
Ho ricucito i pezzi
Ricominciato a sperare
Avevi tutto quanto
Anche il mio sogno migliore
Hai preso ciò che serve
Senza ritegno nè onore

Ti farò male più di un colpo di pistola
È appena quello che ti meriti
Ci provo gusto me ne accorgo ed allora
Non mi vergogno dei miei limiti e lividi
Come ti gira dopo un colpo di pistola
Ti vedo un po' a corto di numeri
Ci provo gusto me ne accorgo ed allora
Non mi seccare coi tuoi alibi alibi
Come gira dopo un colpo di pistola
Ti vedo un po' a corto di numeri
Ci provo gusto me ne accorgo ed allora
Non ci provare coi tuoi alibi alibi

Morcheeba
Blindfold
["Big calm", 1998]

Three months in here
Can't catch the tears
Time never lands
Our love is all that stands now

Streets feel strange
And longer lives can never change

I'm so glad to have you
And it's getting worse
I'm so mad to love you
And you're evil curse

I feel out of place
Just look at my face
Stuck in the mud
Knee-deep in blood girl

Eyes, blind fold
You never said I'm growing old

I'm so glad to have you
And it's getting worse
I'm so mad to love you
And you're evil curse
I'm so glad to have you
And it's getting worse
I'm so mad to love you
And you're evil curse

My my my heart is still reliant
very light

Tell them I've gone
And nothing's wrong
In from the past
A sudden blast bang

Spring has gone
And summer keeps on coming on

I'm so glad to have you
And it's getting worse
I'm so mad to love you
And you're evil curse
I'm so glad to have you
And I'm getting worse
I'm so mad to love you
And you're evil curse
I'm so glad to have you
And I'm getting worse
I'm so mad to love you
And you're evil curse

I've a plan to save you from my misery
I'm a man too brave to follow history

Joy Division
Shadowplay
["Unknown pleasures", 1979]

To the centre of the city where all roads meet, waiting for you
To the depths of the ocean where all hopes sank, searching for you
I was moving through the silence without motion, waiting for you
In a room with a window in the corner I found truth

In the shadowplay, acting out your own death, knowing no more
As the assassins all grouped in four lines, dancing on the floor
And with cold steel, odour on their bodies mad a move to connect
But I could only stare in disbelief as the crowds all left

I did everything, everything I wanted to,
I let them use you for their own ends,
To the centre of the city in the night, waiting for you
To the centre of the city in the night, waiting for you

Interpol
Slow hands
["Antics", 2004]

Yeah but nobody searches
Nobody cares somehow
When the loving that you've wasted
Comes raining from a hapless cloud
And I might stop and look upon your face
Disappear in the sweet, sweet gaze
See the living that surrounds me
Dissipate in a violet place

Can't you see what you've done to my heart
And soul?
This is a wasteland now

We spies
We slow hands
Put the weights all around yourself
We spies
Oh yeah we slow hands
You put the weights all around yourself now

I submit my incentive is romance
I watched the pole dance of the stars
We rejoice because the hurting is so painless
From the distance of passing cars
But I am married to your charms & grace
I just go crazy like the good old days
You make me want to pick up a guitar
And celebrate the myriad ways that I love you

Can you see what you've done to my heart
And soul?
This is a wasteland now

We spies
Yeah we slow hands
You put the weights all around yourself
We spies
Oh yeah we slow hands
Killer, for hire you know not yourself

We spies
We slow hands
You put the weights all around yourself
We spies
Oh yeah we slow hands
We retire like nobody else
We spies
Intimate slow hands killer
For hire you know not yourself
We spies
Intimate slow hands
You let the face slap around herself

The Cure
The end of the world
["The Cure", 2004]

Go if you want to
I never tried to stop you
Know there's a reason
For all of this you're feeling
Low it's not my call
You couldn't ever love me more
You couldn't love me more
You couldn't love

Me I don't show much
It's not that hard to hide you
See in a moment
I can't remember how to
Be all you wanted
I couldn't ever love you more
I couldn't love you more
I couldn't love

You want me to cry and play my part
I want you to sigh and fall apart
We want this like everyone else

Stay if you want to
I'll always wait to hear you
Say there's a last kiss
For all the times you run this
Way it's not my fault
You couldn't ever love me more
Couldn't love me more
Couldn't love
(Love me more)

I couldn't ever love you more
I couldn't love you more
I couldn't love

You want me to lie not break your heart
I want you to fly not stop and start
We want us like everything else

Ooooh
Ooooh

Maybe we didn't understand
It's just the end of the world

Maybe we didn't understand
Not just a boy and a girl
It's just the end of the
end of the world

Me I don't say much
It's far too hard to make you
See in a moment
I still forget just how to
Be all you wanted
I couldn't ever love you more
I couldn't love you more
I couldn't love you more
I couldn't love you more
I couldn't love you more

Depeche Mode
I feel you
["Songs of faith and devotion", 1993]

I feel you
Your sun it shines
I feel you
Within my mind
You take me there
You take me where
The kingdom comes
You take me to
And lead me through
Babylon

This is the morning of our love
It's just the dawning of our love

I feel you
Your heart it sings
I feel you
The joy it brings
Where heaven waits
Those golden gates
And back again
You take me to
And lead me through
Oblivion

This is the morning of our love
It's just the dawning of our love

I feel you
Your precious soul
And I am whole
I feel you
Your rising sun
My kingdom comes

I feel you
Each move you make
I feel you
Each breath you take
Where angels sing
And spread their wings
My love's on high
You take me home
To glory's throne
By and by

This is the morning of our love
It's just the dawning of our love

Afterhours
Dea
["Hai paura del buio?", 1997]

Stracciami Barbara avrò la mente
contorta lo so ma non m'importa
Stracciami forse la smetto d'elaborare teoremi d'ogni sorta
Scusami amore voglio solo dormire
Scusami Barbara ma non posso morire
Per nessuna vita mi spengo neppure per la mia

dea, dea, dea

Bella la telenovela e per lo spessore credimi non importa
Tanto ho scoperto che io non sono mai
stato l'uomo di una volta
Scusami amore ma non posso morire
Sarò mediocre voglio solo dormire
Per nessuna vita mi spengo neppure per la mia

dea, dea, dea

Stracciami Barbara avrò la mente
contorta lo so ma non m'importa
Tanto ho scoperto che io non sono mai
stato l'uomo di una volta
Scusami amore ma non posso venire
e ho poca moneta e poi non posso morire
Per nessuna vita mi spengo neppure per la mia

dea, dea, dea, dea

Francesco De Gregori
Compagni di viaggio
["Prendere e lasciare", 1996]

Avevano parlato a lungo di passione e spiritualità.
E avevano toccato il fondo della loro provvisorietà.
Lei disse sta arrivando il giorno,
chiudi la finestra o il mattino ci scoprirà.
E lui sentì crollare il mondo,
sentì che il tempo gli remava contro,
schiacciò la testa sul cuscino,
per non sentire il rumore di fondo della città.
Una tempesta d'estate lascia sabbia e calore.
E pezzi di conversazione nell'aria e ancora voglia d'amore.


Lei chiese la parola d'ordine, il codice d'ingresso al suo dolore.
Lui disse "Non adesso, ne abbiamo già discusso troppo spesso,
aiutami piuttosto a far presto,
il mio volo lo sai partirà tra poco più di due ore.
Sentì suonare il telefono nella stanza gelata
e si svegliò di colpo e capì di averla solo sognata.
Si domandò con chi fosse e pensò "E' acqua passata".
E smise di cercare risposte, sentì che arrivava la tosse,
si alzò per aprire le imposte,
ma fuori la notte sembrava appena iniziata.


Due buoni compagni di viaggio non dovrebbero lasciarsi mai.
Potranno scegliere imbarchi diversi, saranno sempre due marinai.
Lei disse misteriosamente "Sarà sempre tardi per me quando ritornerai".
E lui buttò un soldino nel mare, lei lo guardò galleggiare, si dissero "Ciao!"
per le scale e la luce dell'alba da fuori sembrò evaporare.