“We are on the 70th floor ‘reckless'”. Vasco Rossi turns 70 today. The famous Italian rocker celebrates his birthday with this message on Instagram, where he posted an animation in which he is the protagonist as well as a chronicler of his own long career.
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Among the most loved songs by Vasco Rossi there is certainly Sally: who does not remember the famous verses “Because life is a thrill that flies away, it’s all a balance over madness “. The song, contained in the album “No danger … for you” released in 1996, is a hymn to life and to trying to learn from bad things done and suffered. Disillusionment with life
The first lines “Sally walks down the street without even looking at the ground” express the mood of a woman who has lived through so many negative experiences that she no longer even looks where she walks and “she no longer wants to go to war”. Same disillusionment expressed with “Sally has already been punished for every distraction or weakness of her for every candid caress”, to which affections and fleeting relationships have in a small part remedied. “Maybe it was right”
The period of innocence and childhood are far away for Sally as can be seen in the verses “Those moments when a look caused disturbances when life was easier and you could even eat strawberries are far away”. “But maybe, Sally, this is the meaning of your wandering. Maybe you really have to feel a little bad at the end ”they express instead the fact that the pain for the girl must become a motivation to grow and process their negative experiences. “Sally walks lightly down the street” expresses this lightening of the girl’s weight of conscience. The ending of the song “Maybe something has been saved. Maybe it really wasn’t all wrong. Maybe it was right “expresses the sense of fatality of life, and the fact that all things, positive and negative,Sally and Vasco
As Vasco Rossi himself tells it, this song was born following a social event on a boat, during which the famous rocker came across particularly attractive women during a boat trip. Over time Vasco Rossi revealed that after all Sally and he too: “I was thinking of a woman of thirty, thirty-five, then I realized that a lot of me had ended up in the piece.” (quote from the book Vasco Rossi. The story behind the songs , published in 2017). Sally, the lyrics of the song by Vasco Rossi
Sally walks down the street without even looking
at the ground
Sally and a woman who no longer wants
to make war
Sally has suffered too much
Sally has already seen what
can collapse on you
Sally has already been punished
For every distraction or weakness
For every candid caress
So much so as not to feel the bitterness
Feel the rain outside
Feel the nice noise
Sally walks down the street, safe
Without thinking about nothing
Now looks at people
With an indifferent air
Those moments are far away
When a look caused disturbances
When life was easier
And strawberries could also be eaten
Because life is a thrill that flies away
And everything is a balance above the madness
Above the madness
You feel it’s raining outside
Feel what a nice noise
But maybe Sally is just the meaning, the meaning
Of your wandering
Maybe you really have to feel
a little bad
in the end Maybe at the end of this sad story
Someone will find the courage
To face the feelings of guilt
And erase them from this journey
To really live every moment
With every disturbance
And as if it were the last
Sally walks the street, light
By now and evening
The street lights come on
All the people run home in front of the televisions
And a thought passes through her head
Maybe life wasn’t all lost
Maybe something was saved
Maybe it really wasn’t all wrong
Maybe it was right
Maybe, but maybe, but yes
What do you want me to tell you
Hear what a nice noise
