Il sentimiento nuevo [English translation]

It is a new feeling,

The thing that keeps me in a higher ground:

Passion in my throat,

Eros becomes words.

Your strange inhibitions

Are not part of sex:

The legendary desires of Libyan prostitutes,

The pre-hellenistic sense of possession.

Your voice - like the chorus

of Ulysses's sirenes - chains me.

And it's awesome to lose myself in this spell.

It's awesome to lose myself in this spell.

All the muscles in my body

Are ready for mating:

They - in the geishas' Japan -1

Indulge in love.

Your strange inhibitions

triggering the pleasure:

The tantric Shivaism

Of Dionysian style,

The pornographic fight

Of both greeks and latins,

Your skin - like an oasis

in the desert - enraptures me.

And it's awesome to lose myself in this spell.

It's awesome to lose myself in this spell.

The legendary desires of Libyan prostitutes,

The pre-hellenistic sense of possession.

Your voice - like the chorus

of Ulysses's sirenes - chains me.

And it's awesome to lose myself in this spell.

It's awesome to lose myself in this spell.

1. Alternative interpretation: "In Japan some geishas"

• Artist:Franco Battiato
• Album:La voce del padrone