Venezia-Istanbul [English translation]

Venice instinctively reminds me of Istanbul

Same palaces on the beach

Red sunsets that are lost in nothingness.

D 'Annunzio 1 mounted horseback with futuristic fanaticism

How much passion for airplanes and legionnaires

What jokes does Nature play for man...2

Give me a pack of Camel without filter 3 and a Minerva matchbox 4

And a chronicle on the radio says that a striker sticks

Vertically running along the penalty area ...

Boys, don't play too often beside hospitals.

Socrates often spoke of the joys of Love

And in the chest of the pupils, almost the heart was over

So much so that they also offered him their body: fires of

Mid-August.

And the teens years full of baptisms and communions

in the sacristy

Ave Maria.

Once they were playing with friends at cards

and for parties they wore ties

for aesthetic and social issues;

the women choose a husband by correspondence ...

Ethics is an unconscious victim of History:

yesterday I have seen two men holding themselves hugged

in a cinematic of the periphery ...

and I think how Morale changes quickly.

Once Christians were killed and then,

with the excuse of the witches, they killed the pagans

Ave Maria.

And because the sun of the future shines again on the earth

Let's make it a bit wide with another war.

1. Italian poet and politician who lived around the beginning of 20th century 2. ironical consideration about D'Annunzio physic 3. this is a cigarettes' brand 4. Minerva is the name of a brand of matches

• Artist:Franco Battiato
• Album:Patriots