by Piotta ft. Il Muro del Canto
North, South, West, East, Rome is
so big that at night She takes you, She swallows you,
A giant that cradles you among the shouts She doesn't hear
She buys you, She sells you, She elevates you, She knocks you down,
She uses you if it's needed, She rewards you, She loses you
Someone leaves, someone descends, someone bluffs, climbs
Cold as the Arctic, Sahara
inside your blankets, on this night
naked as in Rome and it's like that that I'd want you
Retracing the sky from the sea like
‘Cause fears, you’ve not had them… never
Women like Her4, who binds me to Her taut ropes
Who splits the air with lit candles,
black as sanpietrini2 or white as marble
Like dew drops that reflect my gaze
Raw Rome, raw Rome, raw Rome
Naked like beauty, great like Rome
Saint and dissolute Rome loves and doesn't forgive
Rome devours you like a barracuda
Naked like beauty, great like Rome
Saint and dissolute Rome loves and doesn't forgive
Rome devours you like a barracuda
Levant, westerly, mistral, sirocco3
The roses, the winds, the thorns, a toll
I stop, sunset, buildings all the way to the sea
7 deadly sins1, it feels like drowning
in the black and white of a memory that doesn't belong to me
Siren songs all around, cold as hyenas
Where thirst for revenge wears custom-made silks
Blessed Rome, sometimes Christ sometimes Judas
Rome, barbaric and culture, complex DNA
This is what Rome does, She seduces right from the entrance
Sad as a tango through gold and mud
Rome is a pas-de-deux twirling on asphalt
Rome is a tired face of a tear-streaked Virgin Mary
Jealous, invasive, keeper of souls
Curious, indolent, unfaithful prayer
Rome, infamous hands in the holy water font
Naked like beauty, great like Rome
Saint and dissolute Rome loves and doesn't forgive
Rome devours you like a barracuda
Naked like beauty, great like Rome
Saint and dissolute Rome loves and doesn't forgive
Rome devours you like a barracuda
Raw Rome, raw Rome, raw Rome
Raw Rome, raw Rome, raw Rome
1. “7 vizi capitale” is a play on words between Rome, the capital (“capitale") of Italy and the “7 vizi capitali”, aka the 7 deadly sins
2. Typical Italian paving stones
3. The east wind, west wind, north-west wind and south-east wind of the Mediterranean
