| Laura Nyro – Save the Country Lyrics | 13 years ago |
|
She's quoting the old gospel song "Down by the Riverside". The chorus goes "I ain't go study war no more, study war no more, ain't go study war no more" and so on. |
|
| La Quiete – Sulla Differenza Fra un Sorriso e una Risata Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| It should say "if you're still laughing of crying" in the second to last line. | |
| La Quiete РNotte Dei Cristalli a Rue des Trois Fr̬res Lyrics | 13 years ago |
|
Kristallnacht at Rue des Trois Frères Opal reflections of inaccurate memories, Uncultivated hopes in a suffocated oblivion. I look for the key to each one of my mere anxieties. Silence greets me. Ruthless. Clear. I do not feel peace or security. But the ecstasy of this anguish calms down and disappears. Not one imaginary ideal in which you can indulge. Realities that I distort and overload. |
|
| La Quiete – Alle Foglie Lyrics | 13 years ago |
|
To the Leaves: It was decided that we'll last only one season. It'll be the wind the one that'll accompany us to the ground And when they'll come and step on us No one will ask about us and our history. Are we sure we have one? Who can tell? The last one that hid on the tree Will fall too. |
|
| La Quiete – Una Vita Veloce Lyrics | 13 years ago |
|
A Fast Life: I won't celebrate my departure at a table, But I will come in person to say goodbye to you one by one, my friends. |
|
| La Quiete – Mancanza di Originalità Lyrics | 13 years ago |
|
Lack of Originality: In the disorder what is your plan? What is your ambition? You never understood the core of the instinctive violence. I sabotage myself. |
|
| La Quiete – Sulla Differenza Fra un Sorriso e una Risata Lyrics | 13 years ago |
|
On the Difference Between a Smile and a Laughter: I have wished I could cover with a single step the same distance That forced me to come back tired. And then beyond. I also wanted to be so big that I could see everything from above And your every move would have been a sweet invitation (to follow you with my eyes), But then the clouds, the roofs and the houses would have kept me From understanding if you're still laugh or cry. I'm still here. Small, of a small nature. |
|
| La Quiete – Le Conseguenze di un Abbraccio Lyrics | 13 years ago |
|
The Consequences of a Hug: The space seems to regulate more things than I know If only we had learned to ignore it I think of all the past years Of calculating the distances There would have been something left for us, If only we had tried to remember. How many are left for you now How many are left for you now How many are left for you now How many ... now. Yet, look around you From here you come all over the place Time decides more things than you might think. |
|
| La Quiete – Era Quella La Mia Prigione Di Carte? Lyrics | 13 years ago |
|
That Was My Prison of Cards? We realised we loved each other at first silence*, with no shame. Just to say "goodbye" without sincerity. Thus, I was afraid of my silence for the first time. Letting my fingers get confused with the drawings of the cold marble upon which my body tried to sleep. A collection of fragments with no apparent logical constraints. Four sides, two lights, four shadows. * The first line is sort of a play on words with "love at first silence" instead of "love at first sight" |
|
| La Quiete – Cosa Sei Disposto a Perdere Lyrics | 13 years ago |
|
What Are You Willing to Lose: Tickled by the wind Running to steal the first laugh, The eyes, childish and wet. I wish that scraped knees would still be running And not to paint colourless answers. My apathy that corrodes like rust, You built me a wall of rejection and disappointment. The first warmth heats the fingers That press on the eardrums, The palms to the temples. Only a memory Of tired ankles, The suicidal grip Of those Why's. |
|
| La Quiete – Animali di Fede e di Memoria. Lyrics | 13 years ago |
|
Animals of Faith and Memory: The darkness makes its way between the sheets, The sounds are confused, but never in telling us about ourselves, In speaking of how these images will kill us one day. The importance of re-reading ourselves without having to justify and argue, Without updating and revising. Animals of faith and memory. |
|
| La Quiete – Il Teorema Di Peters (Peter's Theorem) Lyrics | 13 years ago |
|
The last sentence can also be translated (perhaps even more accurately) to: "... My silence has no purpose other than to make me feel* how much i still have to learn." * or "let me hear", the verb "sentire" translates to both in italian. |
|
| La Quiete – Uncaged Lyrics | 13 years ago |
|
Suppose that I said That this was that This would be useless Things must get Inside us. It's not the time to Think, to think Ahead of time. |
|
| La Quiete – La Parte Sinistra Del Corpo (The Sinister Part of the Body) Lyrics | 13 years ago |
|
There's a few typos in the italian lyrics, they should be: Uomini e donne di solito non ricorrono ad una esclamazione quando sono soli; guardami e parlami ancora. Le cose che non ci siamo mai detti, le più semplici. |
|
| La Quiete – La Parte Sinistra Del Corpo (The Sinister Part of the Body) Lyrics | 13 years ago |
|
Men and women don't usually resort to an exclamation when they are alone; look at me and talk to me again. The things we never told each other, the most simple. |
|
| La Quiete – La Maestra Non Sa Che Illich Mi Ha Parlato Del Programma Occulto (The Teacher Doesn't Know That Illich Talked With Me About The Hidden Plan) Lyrics | 13 years ago |
|
The English translation is quite spot-on, though it has just two minor mistakes. It should say "with the sand just dried", not "tried". Also, the last verse should say "and everywhere", not "therefore". (By the way, just to clarify:"Teacher doesn't know that Illich talked me about the hidden plan" is not part of the lyrics. It's actually the translation of the title. Thought non-italian speakers might have missed that.) |
|
| La Quiete – Mandorle Amare al Traguardo della Millemiglia Lyrics | 13 years ago |
|
The title is "Bitter Almonds at the Mille Miglia's Finish Line" in English, while the lyrics would be something like: Don't listen to me. Let my words drop. Absent, I cover myself. With deceptions blind me. Lifeless, I seek in hatred Every single purest form of commiseration. Appealing to derivations mutable in time Breaks the virginity of every more quiet coma. Each poison darkens the worst side of ourselves: Rationality. |
|
| La Quiete – Il Teorema Di Peters (Peter's Theorem) Lyrics | 13 years ago |
|
A more accurate translation: The less people know, the more they talk. My silence has no purpose other than to let me hear what is left for me to learn. |
|
| La Quiete – Helas Lyrics | 13 years ago |
|
I apologize if I'm being nit-picky but a more accurate translation would be: "It's only the fear that kills feelings. Souls have no gender." With the correct translation in mind, It'd be safe to say that this song is about love and (maybe) homophobia rather than sex and/or death. |
|
| La Quiete – Gemelli Siamesi (Siamese Twins) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
|
It's actually a cover of Siamese Twins by The Cure, which the band translated in italian. The original lyrics are: I chose an eternity of this Like falling angels The world disappeared Laughing into the fire Is it always like this? Flesh and blood and the first kiss The first colours [it's "first love" in LaQ's version] The first kiss It fades and spins ["falls and spins" in LaQ's version] Fades and spins... Sing out loud We all die!!! Laughing into the fire... Is it always like this? |
|
| The Van Pelt – Nanzen Kills A Cat Lyrics | 17 years ago |
|
I believe that it's about religion and god. They're basically saying that religion is a mere expression of human weaknesses and absurd childish superstitions, which are great to keep people quiet ("This is the lunacy by which we kneel. This is the doublespeak by which we kill. This is the inertia that keeps tradition feared. This is the absurdity by which we walk barefoot with shoes on our heads.") and to make them committ atrocities ("So kill a cat to keep logic at bay"). Additionally, the lines "Ponder this to get nearer to Nothing. On top of the world, think about it, there's Nothing." definitely sound like atheist remarks. I wonder where the title comes from, though. Any ideas? |
|
* This information can be up to 15 minutes delayed.