Nell’acqua [English translation]

1

Every astrophysicist thinks that life was born

with the explosion of an immense, infinite grenade.

According to the believers, no way: the Earth was created

by a Supreme Being in less than a few days.

Well, yes, I let them follow the Genesis book,

even if there’s someone who disappears, like Phil with the Genesis.2

The Testaments dispense nemeses,

but in the end they are more popular than Elvis in Tennessee.

You ask me: «Do you believe those ones? Or you believe these ones?

Tell me, which one is the truth? Who deserves it?»

Life is not there, life is not here,3

neither here nor there, but in the water.

Neither here nor there, but in the water.

Neither here nor there, but in the water.

Life is not there, life is not here,

neither here nor there, but in the water.

I’m a believer, absolutely! I believe in Poseidon,

because if water disappears, you die after a short while.

And in the comedy of life, I’d like to play even a role as small as the positron.4

So I don’t believe those ones, nor these ones.

You want the truth from me? Well, the truth…

the truth is not there, the truth is not here,

neither here nor there, but in the water.

Neither here nor there, but in the water.

Neither here nor there, but in the water.

Life is not there, life is not here,

neither here nor there, but in the water.

Neither here nor there, but in the water.

Neither here nor there, but in the water.

Life is not there, life is not here,

neither here nor there, but in the water.

And I do not follow the schemes of those who believe I was born from the aliens’ sex acts.

I don’t believe in the comet that fecundated this planet with a thrust of their hips.

I venerate Atlaua, the Aztec god of water,

he will condemn you if you waste it, if you [have so much that you could] drown in it and yet you refuse [to share] it.

If you say you don’t give a thing - sixteen months of drought.

And then you’ll realize that life is not…

neither here nor there, but in the water.

Neither here nor there, but in the water.

Life is not there, life is not here,

neither here nor there, but in the water.

Neither here nor there, but in the water.

Neither here nor there, but in the water.

Life is not there, life is not here,

neither here nor there, but in the water.

But in the water.

But in the water.

…

1. This song was written for the Rezophonic project.2. Phil Collins is the former singer of Genesis.3. The song plays with né là né qua {neither there nor here} and nell’acqua {in the water} which sound very similar.4. particella elementare = elementary particle (a basic particle of physics, of which the positron is an example).

particella = small part.

parte = part; role.

• Artist:Caparezza