Al Monte [English translation]

At the Mount

At first it was a shock,

a thunder and an air of volcano

they were just two bright wires

of a dark and new matter,

without a brain, without history,

without any help

a moment later there were two fishes in the middle of the sea, a black and unknown sea.

They clung to the waves of the sheets and swam in the storm, in the morning they woke up that they were two snakes and crawled in the forest.

They went to the park to sunbathe and thought that the world was not so bad.

They felt the heat on the skin and a distant music.

Time to take a few steps and they were two monkeys clinging to the subway.

I will go up to the mountain

I will find gems for your forehead

and I will live in the waves

then I'll go diving into the shadows.

Something was told in the ear, in the noise of the train.

When they came to the surface, they were a man and a woman working for a salary.

The crowd pushed them and spat at them

because they had tried to steal an apple from the owner of the factory who was doing it with the local mafiosi.

The world was an ark of Noah that was lost, adrift

but for those two the universal flood was only a small summer rain.

They fled to the future

chased by the gendarmes of what had been.

"Quiet we will find a place, everything will settle"

She replies: "I do not know, now that we love each other, who will protect us?".

I will go up to the mountain,

I will find gems for your forehead

and I will live in the waves

then I'll go diving into the shadows.

The revolution gave way to the period of terror in a short time.

It was for the sake of pride that the sky once dismantled the stars and put on the lights of the greatest world war:

a soup of ideals and amphetamines and pornographic newspapers in the latrines.

The soldier closed one eye and placed the other on the target.

What he saw was the image of a woman disappearing.

A few evenings later, almost a thousand years

she is lost on the street

and has submarine eyes

a man calls her on her knees,

on the sidewalk, in the middle of the passage, no one saw the embrace among all the busy people.

And the story ends here with a journey to another planet and the promise of those two to really start life.

I will go up to the mountain

I will find gems for your forehead

and I will live in the waves

then I'll go diving into the waves.

I will go up to the mountain

I will find gems for your forehead

and I will live in the waves

then I'll go diving into the stars.

• Artist:Mannarino
• Album:Al Monte (2014)