Franco Battiato

"I was in my car, | watching for the bend, | I was looking for you. | Dal balcone ammiravo il vuoto, | che ogni tanto un passante riempiva... | è stato solo un presentimento."

"Nella voce di un cantante, | si rispecchia il sole, | ogni amata ogni amante. | Strani Giorni, viviamo Strani Giorni. | I've fallen into reverie, | I dreamed a vague outline, | the whisky flowed sendi…"

"Central Park, | I love in the dark, | Ich bin klein, | people sang, | around the campfire ground, | I remember | prehistoric sound, | was the time of dinosaur age, | Oh, Nein. | Chan-son Egocentrique,…"

"No Time No Space, | another race of vibrations, | the sea of the simulation, | keep your feelings in memories, | I love you especially tonight."

"Millions of shadows walking into nothingness."

"We cannot excuse you | for your behaviour, | the great China, | the divine empire, | has fallen into dishonour. | Politicians kill the monks, | refusing to listen and to reason. | Keep your hands off …"

"What joy to breathe the scent of open air, | wich dies like the last rays of the sun, | no mortal man has lifted my veil. | I'm neither Muslim, nor Hindu, | nor Christian, nor Buddhist, | I'm not for …"

"What glorious light, | wisdom without bound, | wrapt in eternal solitary shade. | The impenetrable gloom of light intense | impervious inaccessible immense."