martedì 29 luglio 2008

Accelerate



Sinking fast, the weight chained to my feet
No time to argue with belief
I’m not alone, a thousand others dropping
Faster than me
What put me here?
Nothing to hold on to
Nowhere to brake

Where is the ripcord, the trapdoor, the key?
Where is the cartoon escape-hatch for me?
No time to question the choices I make
I’ve got to follow another direction (although fall down is much cooler)

The last thing I remember was climbing up the stairs
I threw the window open in challenge and despair
I don’t know what I needed
I needed timeI needed to escape
I saw the future turn
Upside-down and hesitate.

Where is the ripcord, the trapdoor, the key?
Where is the cartoon escape-hatch for me?
No time to question the choices I make
I’ve got to follow another direction

Accelerate.

The vista I see now is changing
Uncertainty is suffocating
Our hope has never felt so great and
Lit up down
A pounding pulse
To make it go
Make it slow down,
Go.

Where is the ripcord, the trapdoor, the key?
Where is the cartoon escape-hatch for me?
No time to question the choices I make
I’ve got to follow another direction.

The city’s burning, it’s like it’s ready to explode
Accelerate to make it slow
Make it goAccelerate to make it slow
Make it go
I’m incomplete
I’m incomplete
I’m incomplete.

di R.E.M. _Accelerate

giovedì 10 luglio 2008

docks


request..

"Nor wars did men molest
when only beechen bowls
were in request".

trad.

"Ne turbavano gli uomini le guerre
quando solo scodelle di betulla
erano chieste".

di Alexander Pope.

perdersi

"Solo quando ci siamo perduti - in altre parole solo quando abbiamo perduto il mondo - cominciamo a trovare noi stessi, e a capire dove siamo, e l'infinita ampiezza delle nostre relazioni".

di H. D. Thoreau_ Walden ovvero vita nei boschi.