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 . We remember this song on the occasion of the anniversary of the famous Genoese singer-songwriter, born on February 18, 1940. Love that pulls your hair
The song was recorded in 1966 in a single together with La ballad dell’amore cieco (or della vanita) and three years later, in 1969, in the LP Nuvole barocche. It is a powerful song, largely inspired by the poet’s own biography, who composed the song when he realized that the passion between him and Enrica Rignon was fading . “The love that tears the hair and is lost by now – sings De Andre – all that remains is a few listless caresses and a little tenderness“. Enrica herself declare that her husband wrote the song when the flower of their love had by now withered. Love according to De Andre
De Andre loved to talk about love, as many of his masterpieces testify, a love that knows how to be an overwhelming feeling, so much so that kisses are never enough and the time spent together is never enough. However, according to Faber, love is as intense as it is fleeting, as he often sings. If in fact ” Love that you come, love that you go ” is a hymn to the transience of sentiment, in the Song of lost love the poet tells how a love ends. Life goes on
Quickly it can happen to pass from We will never, never, ever, from love that tears your hair, to goodbye: I would like to tell you now the same things but as soon as possible, love, to wither the roses. But life, sings De Andre, goes on: it will be the first you meet on the street that you will cover with gold for a kiss never given for a new love. Often we have no choice but to firmly believe that this is the case. The text
Ricordi blossomed the violets
with our words
“We will never, never, never leave each other”,
I would like to tell you now the same things
but as soon as possible, love, to wither the roses
so for us
the love that tears the hair and lost by now,
all that remains is a few listless caresses
and a little tenderness.
And when you find yourself in your hand
those withered flowers in the sun
of an April now distant,
you will regret them
but it will be the first you meet on the street
that you will cover with gold for a kiss never given,
for a new love.
And it will be the first you meet on the street
that you will cover with gold for a kiss never given,
for a new love. Fabrizio De Andre
Fabrizio Cristiano De Andre, known as Fabrizio De Andre, was born in Genoa on February 18, 1940 and died in Milan on January 11, 1999. Singer-songwriter considered one of the most important, influential and innovative Italians on the Italian scene, and also known by the he name of Faber that his friend Paolo Villaggio gave him, with reference to his predilection for Faber-Castell’s pastels and pencils, as well as for the assonance with his name.
