La Cura is a masterpiece of Italian music. A hymn to absolute, universal love. Franco Battiato is a beloved Sicilian singer-songwriter, composer and director. His virtu as a songwriter has always been to know how to combine multiple musical styles, combining them in an eclectic, original and experimental approach.
Poetry and literature, as the good Sartre taught us, live thanks to those who read them and those who attribute meaning to them. And everyone interprets a text in his own way, based on what he feels, on what he knows, on his life experience of him. The case of the song “La cura” by Franco Battiato is emblematic, released for the first time in the album “L’imboscata” in 1996 and almost immediately became one of the most loved pieces of Italian music. Unfortunately, Maestro Battiato left us at the age of 76, but his music and his poetry will live on forever. What we are willing to do for love
Franco Battiato’s answer
Today’s sentence is taken from “La cura”, one of Franco Battiato’s most famous songs, whose birth is remembered today, which took place on 23 March 1945The song about universal love curates her
It is not wrong who in this song sees a love song. But what Franco Battiato sings in La Cura is love in its highest form: the person, the lyric self, addresses an indefinite “you” to whom he promises to dedicate his life. He will protect her from “fears of hypochondria”, from the obstacles of life, from injustices, falls and obsessions. He will take care of her, helping her to face the dangers that come from outside and the anxieties that come from inside her, more dangerous than weapons. Such a desire to help the other person will have powerful effects in those who have such aspirations, because it will enable them to overcome their limits: “I will overcome gravitational currents, space and light to keep you from getting old”. Yes, because “faster than eagles my dreams cross the sea”.The cure, a prayer in reverse
But there are those who in this song “La cura” see a dedication to their inner self, which the artist promises to take care of and who, on the other hand, saw a reverse prayer in the song, because it is not man who turns to the God-love but this God-love who speaks to man, whom he considers “a special being” that he will take care of. He will give man “silence and patience”, he will lead him through “the ways that lead to the essence”, he will give him “the laws of the world”.
A fascinating interpretation in which many people believe, but it is up to the sensitivity of each of us, as we said at the beginning, to choose what to read in these words. In any case, it is a song about love, which can be that of a daughter, a son, a wife or husband, a friend or a partner, or that of God for his creatures. At the center is that mysterious push that leads us to approach someone and decide to walk together a piece, if not the entire path of life. La Cura – Franco Battiato
I will protect you from the fears of hypochondria
From the disturbances you will encounter on your way from today
From the injustices and deceptions of your time
From the failures that by your nature you will normally attract
I relieve you of pains and mood swings
From the obsessions of your manias I
overcome gravitational currents
Space and light to keep you from getting old
And you will heal from all diseases
Because you are a special being
And I, I will take care of you I
wandered through the fields of Tennessee
How I got there, who knows
You have no white flowers for me
My dreams faster than eagles
Cross the sea
I will bring you silence and patience above all We will walk
together the paths that lead to the essence
The perfumes of love will inebriate ours bodies
The August calm will not calm our senses I weave
your hair like wefts of a song
I know the laws of the world, and I will make them a gift I will overcome
the gravitational currents
Space and light to keep you from getting old
I will save you from all melancholy
Because you are a special being
And I will take care of you Yes
, I will take care of you
