We sang it out loud at least once. It is ” Gocce di memoria “, the beautiful and poignant song composed by Giorgia in 2003. Written for the film by Ferzan Ozpetek “The front window”, the song won the Silver Ribbon and was the best-selling single of 2003. But the emotion that this song is able to transmit comes from a story that personally touched Giorgia’s life. It was April 13, 2002 when the singer-songwriter Alex Baroni lost his life in a car accident at the age of 36, leaving behind him an insurmountable void . A void crossed only by the voice of Giorgia, who since 1997 had been his partner , her great love. The love story between Giorgia and Alex Baroni
They met and fell in love in 1997. A great love, but also an artistic partnership , from which some beautiful pieces were born, such as “Before a tomorrow”, but also “Without wings” and “Outside my window”. After the tragic accident of 2002, Giorgia goes through a moment of strong crisis which I tell about a few years later: “I define it as a chasm in my life, a tunnel in pain: if you decide to cross it, you are no longer the same person”. The meaning of the song
Shocked by the loss of Alex Baroni , Giorgia chose to entrust her pain to music , giving life to some of her most famous pieces. “Drops of memory” is one of these. In the passage, the author describes that sense of emptiness that the loss of “you” has left inside her.The absence is represented by the “empty rooms”, inhabited only by snapshots and memories of the past life together . They are the “drops of memory” that flow like tears and leave an indelible trace behind them. Then another of the topoi of literature recurs: the ineffability, or the inability to express what one feels, to measure the feeling, which is in this a feeling full of pain and nostalgia (“Inestimable, and elusive your absence that it belongs to me”). To separate the self and the you there is an impossible space to cross , where attempts to reach one another remain continually frustrated. Great and unique antagonist and in fact fate, described as “cutting”, together with “time that has betrayed us”.While the ego struggles in vain against fate, then something extraordinary happens: a new path opens up . A bridge able to unite the I and the you. It is about music , about the possibility of the story (I will tell about you, I will invent for you what we do not have). This is how Giorgia’s “Gocce di memoria” ends, one of the most beautiful poems dedicated to Alex Baroni. Read also: “We will come back again”, the meaning of the new song by Franco Battiato The lyrics
are drops of memory
These new tears
We are souls in an
indelible story
The infinite times that
you will come to look for Me in my empty rooms
Inestimable
Your absence that belongs to me is elusive
We are indivisible
We are the same and fragile
And we are already so far away
With the frost in the mind
I’m running towards you
We are in the same fate
What cutting edge will change us
We are only waiting for a sign
A destiny, an eternity
And tell me how can I do to reach you now
To reach you now, to reach you
We are drops of a past
That can never return
This time has betrayed us, and elusive
I will tell about you I will
invent for you what we do not have
The promises are broken
Like rain on us
Words are tired, but I know that you will listen to me We are
waiting for another journey, a destiny, a truth
And tell me how I can do to reach you now
To reach you now, to reach you
