MILAN – Clouds and sheets and the song from the album While everything flows , written by Giuliano Sangiorgi, Negramaro frontman. The song was initially released as a single in 2006 and reached the third position of the Italian Radio Airplay ranking. In addition, the piece was presented at the 2006 Festivalbar, in fact, and for this performance the Salento group was awarded the award as Best Performer. Clouds and sheets is a love song, which for its complicated text and its icastic language can be compared to a poem. But what this text is about
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The text of this beautiful song tells of a man who stops to think about his past, about his love story of yesterday. The clouds, which represent memories, resurface and destroy the serenity of the present: they are heartbreaking memories, precisely because they bring to mind nostalgic images of a love that no longer exists. Just when it seems to have finally reached a general equilibrium, the past forcefully returns to upset the stillness and serenity apparently.
Hours that slow and inexorable
Cross the silence of my sky
To then suddenly hide
Behind clouds that tear apart the serene
Hear them resurface when everything
Seems to have found the right weight
The lyrical ego would like to snatch these images of the past from the tyrant time and make them immobile and eternal. But unfortunately time cannot be stopped and therefore we have to understand and accept that the days gone by, the ancient kisses and hugs now broken no longer belong to the present time. But the man who accuses himself “distracted, stupid and stubborn”, fails to close with the memories and “as always returns to do so”, in order to relive that moment with his old love.
Distracted, stupid and stubborn
As always I try to do it
I decided to stop him
In order to have you again
Don’t say a word
Hoping he doesn’t notice
I ripped off even the last half hour
Thinking it’s the only way
To feel you still close here The text
Hours that slow and inexorable
Cross the silence of my sky
To then suddenly hide
behind clouds that tear apart the serene
Hear them resurface when everything
Seems to have found the right weight
To have the desire to steal them from time
To be able to give them a whole other sense
Distracted, stupid and stubborn
As always I try to do it
I decided to stop him
So I can still have you
Don’t say a word
Hoping he doesn’t notice
I ripped off even the last half hour
Thinking it’s the only way
To feel you close again
More and more stupid and stubborn
As always I go back to do it
And again to stop
it And to be able to tell you again
Between clouds and sheets
Don’t do it for an hour
Don’t ever do it for now
And hold me then
Between clouds and sheets
Don’t say a word
Don’t say a word
Don’t say an
Hour, that slow and stainless They
cross the silence of my sky
And suddenly hide
Behind clouds that tear the serene You
feel
them resurface when everything seems
to
have found the right weight . still another sense
Hold me then
Between clouds and sheets
Don’t say a word
Don’t ever do it for now
Hug me again
Between clouds and sheets
Don’t say a word
Don’t say a word
Don’t say one
Hour that slow and stainless They
cross the silence of my sky
And suddenly hide
behind clouds that tear the serene You
feel
them resurface when everything
seems to have found the right weight
.
