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Here I
see the world on
old dreams and also
no distortion
that blinds my faith.
Never look back and inside
that’s my first page to hide
how I feel now before this journey
and I have to stay with my own.
All my cryings have been stopped
while I was walking a lot
from the south to the north I see
silence of towns in my head.
Voice of time is arrived
from the skies to this land
and it calls me again “come back home”,
but I can’t hear that so much more.
So I decided to buy
all the rage with my sins
and I’ll never know the name of the actions
that I felt inside another life.
So I don’t know
where I’ll go
whitout faces again.
So I don’t know
where I’ll go
changing colours again.
I don’t know or I know why
I have gone with the night.
Now I see all the images,
she’s only a vacant light.
She doesn’t know how to live in this world
she was only thirteen years old.
While the sun is going away by now
I can’t change what I’ve done.
Near me, far away…
Near me… Far…
Far away…
Far away from all…
So I don’t know
where I’ll go
whitout faces again.
So I don’t know
where I’ll go
changing colours again.
SILENCE!
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Tied Together (Live)
06:37
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I don’t know how it was
anyway here we are
as if an ice age had frozen everything
I do not compromise
and the toy is going to break
while I wait for a new Godot
this perpetual frame is eating us up
and nothing seems to change
but I’ll try
and I’ll try
I’ll try
I’ll try
again, so, here we go
And then came the silence
and I retraced on my own steps
forgetting words that paralyzed me
and now it seems to change
But I’ll try
and I’ll try
I’ll try
I’ll try
Everything changes.
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Paper Man (Remix)
05:39
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He sits crouched under the stairs
and waits to appear in the same vignette
for years he has been playing a part
He speaks through billions of clouds
he lives in a world of inked paper
no longer knows who he is
Chasing who has not yet become
clearly the writer has no more ideas, while
he thinks on how to move on his story,
he’s in a place where false and real collide
If you chose life, a beautiful place where you dive,
you could think, act and respect your own mind
you wouldn’t be afraid of all that whiteness around
you could draw it and fill it with all the colors you mix
He sits crouched under the stairs
and waits to appear in the same vignette
Last night I made a dream
I could touch, I could see (I could see)
I could taste, I could hear
Paper man
can you feel?
“Wait a second, lets start from the beginning
you have a good job, a fast car, designer’s clothes, easy amusements
you can have what you deserve, you shouldn’t leave us”
I chose life, a beautiful place where I dive,
I can think, act and respect my own mind
I fell good with all that whiteness around
I can draw me and fill me with all the colors I found
and that’s what I’ve found
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Maya (Video Edit)
04:27
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I feel something that the others don’t even see
every day I can touch the smiles and wails of a hard childhood
In front of my eyes I look back on my whole life
my whole normal, stupid life
and I learn that there is someone who
doesn’t ask for more, doesn’t ask for more
And I would like to take their hands and to dry their tears
but it’s not so easy we can’t change their past
and their disillusions
While sometimes we must try to listen, try to listen
and don’t stop in front of what appears
why don’t you look at their faces
that are screaming all their rage
Their eyes hide weakness.
You only wanted to be a child
and fill all your days with smiles
mothers, fathers and their troubles
dumped on their daughters and sons
Tens, hundreds of eyes
that couldn’t understand why
you only wanted to be a child
you only wanted to be
Their eyes hide weakness.
Maya wants to be a child
and fills her days with hugs and smiles
leaves her mother and her father
looking for a new, virgin dawn
Tens and hundreds of eyes
that can not understand why
she only wants to be a child
she only wants to be
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Climb Mountains
02:47
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Cell 342 (Empowered Mix)
08:45
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Above the ceiling
dreams like butterflies in the sky
are colors for my white sheet
and somewhere tears fall
“where is my fault?”
he asks me to reply
increasing disease
that silently glows
You put the right things
beside the wrong ones
Remove all your pride
and what you were before
Take off your white coat and let me see
Take off your white coat and then you’ll see
No, I’ m not a fool
Nobody is a fool
Let me be
let me out
it’s what I need
Suddenly, I got it
and I know, I bought and paid for my disgrace with my life
Yes, you could insult me
but I’m sure you think that’s someone else with me, don’t you?
Who’s there? There’s no one else.
Everyone craves the sight
while time is mocking us
I’ve just asked you to leave me alone!
Who’s there? There’s no one else
This is one of those days in which I can
move those clouds that obscure my steps
like smoke on my face
there’s someone who says repeatedly
“these are his last days”
but I’m not afraid to die
No! No, not any more
Wherever I’ll go
they won’t be here any more
their drugs are killing me
and all I want is what I was before
until we cried
I’ve said “pray for me”
I’ve said “pray for me”
please…..
I won’t ask you for more
you couldn’t give more of this
Who’s there? There’s no one else.
You don’t seem afraid
for who you are looking for
he might not exist
The meaning is clear
all doubts disappear
I come, he goes
I come, he goes
I come, he goes
I come, he goes
I’m coming back.
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Don’t try to sell me something that I can not realize.
You think that my religion is to appear and not to live.
Mirrors are broken by echos of ourselves,
lying on dust clouds of human belief.
You take my imagination
then warp it in front of my eyes.
Cities are walking on!
No one can see that is only a white lie.
And than you come inside,
into the market of freedom
buying and selling open mind.
And everything is paradise,
they will be able to choose your useless life
to the end of time.
Struck by this supermarket
I realize that is my town,
people has only his price
and nobody can cry.
Screens and shop windows are cutting all my senses.
I’ll run away from this city
nobody’ll can see me escaping,
this deafening silence is
burning all my violence.
You take my imagination,
then warp it in front of my eyes.
Cities are walking on!
No one can see that is only a white lie.
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New colours fade,
the air caresses my skin
I dreamt that day,
the world that I was waiting.
Now it’s living in everywhere…People is free,
there is no poverty.
What can I say?
This is my heaven!
Now I’m living in this new day.They can’t watch me, here.
Even if they look at me, they can’t feel.
Hypnotized tools, they stride…
without aim, without the destination.
What is ‘living’ by this way?There, a painter is drawing a painting of the streets
but everything he tries to portray fades away!The emptiness is expressed,
what he draws is what there is.
Pretending is only a dress
this city wears to hide the mess!
Dull men refuse,
refuse the emotions
you are only slaves, slaves of sorrow!
You, wish to hold your head,
your head in your hands
but can’t say it’s a woe,
I feel this war!
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