Prospettiva Nevski [English translation]

A wind at thirty degrees below zero

indiscriminate on the epmty squares and against the bell towers

at times like flaws of gun was tearing to pieces the mass of the snow.

And around the fires of the red guards are lit in order to send away the wolves

and old women with rosaries.

Seated on the steps of a church

we were waiting to finish the mass and the ladies to come out

after we were looking with abstracted faces at the unnatural grace of Nijinsky.

And later his impresario fell in love with him

and with the Russian ballets.

The winter with my generation

the ladies bent over the frame close to the windows

a day on the perspective Nevski i met you accidentaly, Igor Stravinsky

and the urinals under the beds for the night

and a film of Ejzenstejn about the revolution.

And we were studing closed in a room

the weak light of the candles and the lamps of petrol

and when he was starting to speak, we were always waiting with pleasure

and my master taught me how difficult is to find

the dawn in the nightfall.

• Artist:Franco Battiato
• Album:Patriots