Money for dope: i testi delle canzoni

SILENCE
( Daniele Luttazzi )

I shouldn’t have done it at all
The house was in silence
I don’t know what more she wants
I can tell you for true

The girl was spectacularly lovely
“Over here, honey!” She did not blink (2)

She was on a plane, she was in a city and in airless subway. (2)

She didn’t know? Whom’s she kidding?
What a pleasure to see ya.
She told me she was a writer.
Why bother to write it down?

She was watching tv
So I switched it off
I’m an expert at that
She has made a fool of me

VIENNA, VIENNA
( Daniele Luttazzi )

Before she left, she kissed me, she kissed me.
Then urged me to call her, to call her
But I’m not that much of a fool
As the Talmud says:”A miracle doesn’t happen every day.”

You have to know Vienna, Vienna
To understand these words completely
I crave love and I fly from it
She did not resist and I was a man again

But you know Kafka, young as he was,
was possessed by inhibitions
“Congratulations!” “You’ll be my guest!”
Women don’t know the secret of sex.

SOMETHING FANTASTIC
( Daniele Luttazzi )

She closed her eyes and in ten seconds flat
She was daydreaming as usual
The Goofy clock on her night table
read six-thirty-seven, she opened her
eyes, “I’m late” she said “bye, dad”. She
slammed the front door
She stood on the sidewalk and stuck out her
thumb.

A trucker stopped, he seemed friendly enough
But he went on asking questions
“Do you have a boyfriend?”
He leered at one point “Look, I’m on acid,
so leave me alone, all right?”
That shut him up
She hallucinated in peace.

Something fantastic is going to happen , I don’t think it’s up to me
She kept confusing the windows and paintings
“It’s about time” she thought.

MAKE YOUR MOTHER SIGH
( Daniele Luttazzi )

Don’t worry, take your time, make your mother sigh
Don’t tell, okay? Alright? Cross your heart and hope to die

Why have I to tell you that your eyes are deep and blue
When the only thing I mean is: Say that you’ll be mine tonight

Mommy inspects her underwear what is she looking for?
She digs into the laundry bag bring ‘em up to the light

I can’t stay away from her I know she’s only sixteen
Don’t let mommy find about what she would do to me?

I didn’t even lowered her pants, I closed my eyes and I was in love
She lays down next to me, let’s see what happens, let’s play

EASY TO BE FOOLED
( Daniele Luttazzi )

I have a “wait and see” attitude. I admit it. It’s so
Easy to be fooled
Most of the time these things just go away
Why jump to unnecessary
Conclusions. I never do.

A woman getting killed in the park
And a cat in heat sound alike
Rooftop slaying or children playing?
The garden below my window? The tv next door?
Let the neighbors call. Probably nothing more
Than some slut fucking her brains out
I pick up the phone. I put it down again.

No one likes a busybody.

What’s that couple doing over there? Are they
Struggling? Are they dancing in the park?
Victim of rape or willing? I’m not one to spoil a party.
Actual cries for help or attention-seeking publicity hound?

GUARD MY TONGUE ( FROM EVIL)
( Daniele Luttazzi )

My God, guard my tongue from evil
And my lips from speaking falsehood
May my soul be silent to those who insult me
My God

I bowed in the prescribed manner
I repeat the words slowly
Seeming to turn them over in my mouth
My God

There is no difference whether He’s there or not
Whether He is bad or worse indifferent at all
The more they drink the thirstier they get
Those who are planning evil against me
Those who are planning evil against me!!

DOOM
( Daniele Luttazzi )

The moon has nothing to be said about
Obscene bikinis hide in the dunes
I cannot touch you. Nothing burns.
Doom consummates that appetite.

I’m never coming home ( 4 )

I’ve had my chances. I’ve tried and tried.
How white these sheets are. The faces have no features.

The hunt is on and sprung the trap
Her greed has set the woods aflame
What fires run, what craving wakes?
Doom consummates that appetite.

I CAN’T STAND IT
( Daniele Luttazzi )

Don’t you see? Can’t you do anything? Where am I going to be? Where
am I going to go now? I’d do anything to have you back.
It’s not worth anything. It’s so
fucking weird, it’s not true.
It’s all gone. It was almost
all I had. It’s empty.
It’s so hard to hate you, I cry all the time. ‘ Cause
it is not at all what it used to be.

Where’s the Promised Land? It is not worth it anymore.
Where did it all go? It’s phony shit.
I did give it a try, I really did and you are gone.
I can’t stand it. I can’t stand it. I can’t stand it. I can’t stand it.

LETTERS ON FIRE
( Daniele Luttazzi )

I made a fire, being tired of all the letters you sent
I will not put them aside
Smell of burning years sweetly I breathe
Filling my lungs with all the love that you gave to me
What do they know that I don’t
‘Tis the only thing I wanna know today

Unafraid, big as the sky
Carbon monoxide, I do not mind
Unable to face the fingering flames
Let’s take a look at your smile
This is a birthday, the adding machine,
I have nobody at all

Love Love Love Love Love

MONEY FOR DOPE
( Daniele Luttazzi )

I said:”Let’s just go home.” You said:”No, no.”
I lowered my expectations right away.
An attitude of “Get your shit together”.
What were we doing here? We had no idea.

Money for dope

How have you learned to love me in my sleep
There’s nothing wrong with that. There can’t be.
“Get it out and then you can forgive each other.”
You don’t have to forgive it, just don’t say it.

A culture of grim faced simplicity.
These people have made all these money
And they were in this green place in the woods
But they were cheating on each other.