There are songs that we all sang, songs that moved us and that with their words they managed to illuminate shadowy spaces, to tear the surface to lead us to explore the ravines of the human soul. They are songs, but also poems. Over the past year we have listened to, read and interpreted them for you. Here, the 10 interpretations that have most conquered our readers. “The pockets full of stones”, the song that Jovanotti dedicates to his mother
. Di lui The words of an exciting song by Jovanotti, entitled “The pockets full of stones” reappear in us. Written for the missing mother, Mogol award in 2011, the song expresses the sense of loneliness and bewilderment in the face of the loss of a fundamental figure such as a parent.The meaning of “The sound of silence”, the song about incommunicability
Written and set to music in 1964, “The sound of silence” is perhaps the most famous song by the duo Simon & Garfunkel. Among the most beautiful pieces in the history of music, the text of “The sound of silence” is to be considered poetry for its timeless images and its ability to evoke and suggest through the use of metaphors and allegories. To tell us about “the sound of silence” is in fact a play of light and shadow, but also an off-screen voice – almost biblical – that dictates and prophesies the destiny of a humanity unable to communicate. An image that after 50 years turns out to be truly prophetic, where the “Neon God” is the emblem of the smartphone we hold in our hand, which shields us from life and acts as a shield in communication with others.“A mano a mano” by Rino Gaetano and the evolution of love
One of the most beautiful songs on the Italian music scene is A mano a mano, a song recorded in 1978 on a single by Riccardo Cocciante. However, the song became famous thanks to Rino Gaetano who gave the text a fresher and lighter tone, different from the Cuban and melancholy interpretation of Cocciante. Ferzan Ozpetek, who included the song in the soundtrack of the film Fasten your belts, says that Rino Gaetano, during the Q-Concert, a live show organized by RCA, in which various artists interpreted the songs of others, had decided to sing A mano by Cocciante’s hand so that he had glimpsed his ex-girlfriend in the crowd. In fact, A mano a mano tells the story of a love that is now over, which time has extinguished, but which time can always make it shine again.“Anna e Marco” by Lucio Dalla is the perfect representation of what it means to be young
There is a beautiful phrase by Calvino, well known, which says “sometimes one feels incomplete and is only young”, a strong phrase and at the same time full of truth. When we are young, we are so attached to life that we seem not to live it enough, we seem to be unable to realize our dreams, which always seem far from reaching. But patience and waiting actually reveal how this feeling of incomplete is part of growing up, of the desire to be happy immediately and without compromise. Listening to “Anna and Marco”, that pearl of a song released in 1979 on Dalla’s eleventh album, entitled “Lucio Dalla”, this whole reflection comes to mind: Anna and Marco are two young people who see their distant future, but they only have to grow and find your own way.Because Geordie was hanged with a golden rope. The meaning of De Andre’s song
Celebre for its vivid and timeless images, not to mention its ancestral rhythm that takes us back to a distant world, “Geordie” is one of the most loved pieces of Fabrizio De Andre’s repertoire. Written in 1966 as an adaptation of the homonymous song recorded by Joan Baez in 1962, Geordie has its roots much further back than you think. “I fell in love with you” by Tenco explains how love is born
Love and incredible strength. It unites people, creates bridges, gives happiness, returns hope. Love is life. But how it is born, how it develops, why we fall in love
Even Dostoevsky found it difficult to answer such questions: “Sometimes you meet people who are absolutely foreign to us, in whom we are interested from the first glance, suddenly, unexpectedly, before a single word is spoken”. Love happens, perhaps it is the only thing we are often given to know. And perhaps this is exactly what Luigi Tenco tells us when in the song “I fell in love with you” he explains how love is born. Why “The old man and the child” by Francesco Guccini is to be considered poetry
Describing and narrating the poetry, words and music of Francesco Guccini means dealing with almost forty years of the history of our country. Author of texts of undisputed literary value which also earned him the Montale, Guccini Prize and one of the cornerstones of the “made in Italy” songwriting. To enter his world of music and words, you have to follow the thread of the stories that make up his records, in which his soul as a modern singer-songwriter, refined author of verses and political singer-songwriter emerges. The ability to know how to transform the topics covered in his texts into real poems through music can be seen in his songs, in particular in “The old man and the child”. A text in which an almost fairytale past is told by an old man in the eyes of a child,“The song of lost love” by De Andre, a passion that vanishes
For love we give everything and our deeds are often much more striking than those of the protagonists of books and films. Love is that feeling that gives shape to our life and is capable of influencing many of our choices, from how to dress to where to live. And it is perhaps precisely for this reason that when a story ends and we lose a love we are seized by that melancholy that Fabrizio De Andre tells so well in The Song of Lost Love. Because “Love of my life” by Freddie Mercury can be considered poetry
Loved for generations for his vocal talent and exuberant stage presence, Freddie Mercury is considered one of the most celebrated and influential artists in rock history. He is remembered by milestones of world music such as Bohemian Rhapsody, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Don’t Stop Me Now, Play the Game, Somebody to Love and We Are the Champions. To remember his poetic vein, the romanticism and the sweetness of his musical work, we want to analyze the text of “Love of my life”, single released with the Live Killers album by Queen in 1979. The most famous version is not the original of the 1975 album A Night at the Opera, but it is the live version sung in the concert held in Frankfurt, Germany during the Live Killers Tour. Franco Battiato’s “cure” is dedicated to 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.
