Lucio Battisti has finally landed yesterday on the Spotify music streaming platform, making many fans happy and giving due weight to one of the Italian artists who have most enriched Italian music. The songs of Battisti and Mogol, collected in 12 albums, were uploaded to Spotify on September 29th, certainly not by chance, since this is the name of Battisti’s song.
According to statistics, young people consume music mainly online, so until yesterday they did not know Battisti, because this great artist did not exist on Spotify.
In this regard, we want to talk to you about one of the highlights of Lucio Battisti’s musical repertoire: “Mi ritorni in mente”, interpreted by Battisti on October 14, 1969 as side A of the 45 rpm single Mi ritorni in mente / 7 e 40 The following year it was included in the Emozioni album , released on December 15, 1970.
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“Mi ritorni in mente” was a very successful song, highly appreciated by the Italian public, so much so that in 1970 it won first place in the charts. Battisti, through the text written by Mogol, retraces, remembering it, a love that is now past, a relationship that is now over.
The text opens with the memory of the beloved woman: beautiful, sweet, like an angel. The lyrical self still feels tied to the beloved, who populates all her dreams, always dragging behind her that sweetness and that incomparable beauty of her. It creates a dreamy and nostalgic atmosphere. From the words, however, it is understood that memory returns a distorted and idealized image of reality. “Perhaps even more”, “This you are now”, “As you are not” reveal the awareness of this deformation of the woman.
I come back to mind
Beautiful as you are
Maybe even more
I come back to mind
Sweet as ever
As you are not
A fallen angel in flight
This you are now
In all my dreams
As I would like you
But as in a rude awakening, the lyrical self wakes up from this numbness and says to himself “But there is something I don’t forget”. Hence, resentment and pain take the place of sweetness and good memories: the atmosphere is no longer rarefied and the memory becomes more vivid and precise. The flow of memories returns to that evening when their love ended. As they dance together, the woman notices another man she feels attracted to. The man understands in that moment that their love is over: a few signs are enough to understand it, like her smile.
A smile
And I saw my end on your face The text
You come back to me
Beautiful as you are
Maybe even more
You come back to me
Sweet as ever
As you are not
A fallen angel in flight
This you are now
In all my dreams
How I would like
you How I would like you
But there is something I do not forget
There is something I do not forget
That I do not forget
That evening You
danced with me
And you clung to me
Suddenly
You asked me “who is he
”
“Who is he
”
A smile
And I saw my end on your face
Our love dissolve in the wind
I remember, I died in a moment
You come back to my mind
Beautiful as you are
Maybe even more
You come back to me
Sweet as ever
As you are not
A fallen angel in flight
This you are now
In all my dreams
How I would like
you How I would like you
But there is something I do not forget
There is something I do not forget
That I do not forget
