La promessa dell'alba [English translation]

The geography of darkness

is a room painted black

a sea of anxiety where the thought drowns

I was speaking to you but really I wasn't there

The geography of darkness

The pieces of advice then don't help you at all

until the false overlaps the true

until lead covers the whole sky

and it is easy to fall inside there

more than you think

Just a wrong

movement is enough

to remove your breath

It's like walking in a labyrinth blindfolded

without finding the exit

searching to give an explanation of everything in this life

'cause in the end it can't be understood in full

But then

the promise of the sunrise

gets closer

and the darkness is exchanged with the light of the morning

between us

The anxiety that becomes adrenaline

the black that is transformed into seawater

the snow thins out

and the shore can be seen

And you were telling me everything passes

I was asking you “When does it really pass?”

And the train track still has not come out

to take us away from this weight

And me, who doesn't remember the lightness anymore

of a stupid conversation

of laughing for no reason

of giving a little less of a shit

of still seeing this glass a little fuller

because it's dangerous, you know, speaking about the future

like when the sun shines and after a flood comes down

because 100 years of studying aren't enough

to orient oneself in the geography of darkness

But then

the promise of the sunrise

gets closer

and the darkness is scalded with the light of the morning

between us

The anxiety that becomes adrenaline

the black that is transformed into seawater

the snow thins out

and the shore can be seen

And it's not a coincidence

and it's not my fault

that the subject that is studied less at school

is geography

And it's not a coincidence

and it's not my fault

that the subject that is then known less

is geography

• Artist:Michele Bravi
• Album:La geografia del buio