MILAN – Among all the songs that were presented last night at the 69th edition of the Sanremo Festival, Take care of me by Simone Cristicchi has certainly struck and excited the vast public. Simone Cristicchi, after arriving in first place in 2007 with Ti regalero una rosa , the touching song that addresses the theme of mental illness, also winning the Critics Award Mia Martini and the Radio-TV Press Room Award, this year performs bringing a song about universal love , a song in which everyone can see each other again.
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Cristicchi’s song thrilled everyone thanks to the lyrics full of sentimental honesty: everyone can be reflected in the words of “Take care of yourself”, which does not only speak of romantic love, or brotherly love, but speaks of universal love . It is, as the singer-songwriter himself said, a ” universal prayer of love, a declaration of fragility .” And in fact the narrator prays the loved one to take care of him, not to let him fall into the void, despite their paths separate:
Take care of me whatever path you choose, love
Take care of me
Take care of me
That everything is like this fragile
From the beginning to the end, it is emphasized that Love is the engine of everything, the meaning of everything, even small things: and the mechanism that makes the world go round. There is nothing more to add, there is nothing more to explain (Do not look for a meaning to everything because everything makes sense). Love is universal also in this sense, that is, in every aspect of nature, in every grain of wheat, in every flower that grows from the asphalt, and the wood that burns and is reduced to ashes.
It is not a question of a crystallized and immobile love, but in eternal becoming, which changes men internally, to be lived minute by minute (Time changes you outside, love changes you inside), to be guarded and not let escape (You don’t seek happiness if anything protect it). Precisely for this reason the words of the song also retrace the suffering and pain that Love causes. Therefore, an appeal is made to forgivenessand to the value of forgiving, of not judging because everyone fights his own battle (Everyone fights his own battle / You surrender to everything, do not judge who is wrong). Particularly touching part and the one related to pain. In moments of crisis, it is necessary to face pain as a transition phase to be reborn . Only by going through one’s pain can one discover the way to turn the page and start over: the tunnel of despair is actually a bridge to cross over to the other side.
Cross your pain get to the bottom
Even if it will be as heavy as lifting the world
And you will realize that the tunnel is only a bridge
And you only need one step to go further
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Below is the full text of Take care of me by Simone Cristicchi:
“Now close your eyes gently and listen to me
They are only four chords and a handful of words
More than pearls of wisdom are stones of mine
That I have dug deeply with my bare hands in a whole life
Do not look for a meaning to everything because everything makes sense
Even in a grain of wheat the universe is hidden
Because nature is a book of mysterious words
Where nothing and bigger than the little things
And the flower among the asphalt the spectacle of the firmament
And the orchestra of the leaves that vibrate in the wind
And the wood that burns that heats up and returns to ashes
Life is the only miracle you cannot but believe
Because everything is a miracle everything you see
And there is no other day that is the same as yesterday
You then live it now as if it were the last
And value every single moment
You imagine if we began to fly
Between the mountains and the sea
Tell me where you would like to go
Hug me if I’m afraid of falling
We are in balance
On the word together
Take care of me
Take care of me
Time you it changes outside, love changes you inside
Just stand by your side instead of being in the center
Love is the only way, and the only engine
And the divine spark that you keep in your heart
Do not seek happiness if anything protect
it And only light that shines on the other face of a tear
And a handful of seeds that you leave behind
Like chrysalis that will become butterflies
Everyone fights their own battle
You surrender to everything , do not judge those who make mistakes
Forgive those who have hurt you, embrace them now
Because the greatest feat is to forgive yourself
Cross your pain get to the bottom
Even if it will be as heavy as lifting the world
And you will realize that the tunnel is only a bridge
And you just need one step to go further
. Can you imagine if we started flying
Between the mountains and the sea
Tell me where you would like to go
Hug me if you are afraid of falling
That despite everything
We are still together
Take care of me whatever path you choose, love
Take care of me
Take care of me
That everything is so fragile
Now slowly open your eyes and stay close
to me Because it trembles me the voice as if I were a child
But until the last day when I can breathe
You hold me tight and don’t let me go.
Take care of me. ”
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