LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: HYACINTH GIRL/THE EVERSONS

It's hard to make a friend
I'm really struggling to pretend
That I am interesting to talk to
And I am trying not to fish
Cos that would make me feel shit
You're unironically delightful
And all the rest, and all the rest, and all the rest
And all the rest, and all the rest, and all the rest

My courage was dutch
But the feelings aren't as such
And you were interested to talk to
And to touch, and to touch
I really hope is not to much
Without irony delightful
And all the rest, and all the rest, and all the rest
And all the rest, and all the rest, and all the rest

And she's my hyacinth girl in a floral dress
And all the rest
And she's my hyacinth girl in a floral dress
And all the rest

And she's my hyacinth girl in a floral dress
And all the rest
And she's my hyacinth girl in a floral dress
And all the rest
And all the rest
And all

ALBUM: THE EVERSONS EP (2011)

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LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: GOOD DAY TODAY/DAVID LYNCH

So tired of fire
So tired of smoke
So tired of fire
So tired of smoke
Send me an angel
Save me
Send me an angel
Save me

I wanna have a good day today
I wanna have a good day today
I wanna have a good day today
Good day today

Tired of grow on
Goes so low
Tired of grow on
Goes so low
Send me an angel
Save me
Send me an angel
Save me

So tired
So tired
So tired
Send me an angel
Save me
Send me an angel
Save me

I wanna have a good day today
I wanna have a good day today
I wanna have a good day today
Good day today

So tired of fearing
So tired of dark
So tired of fearing
So tired of dark
Send me an angel
Save me
Send me an angel
Save me

I wanna have a good day today
I wanna have a good day today
I wanna have a good day today
Good day today

ALBUM: CRAZY CLOWN TIME (2011)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: NIKOLA TESLA/8IN8

8in8 è un supergruppo composto da Amanda Palmer, dal suo compagno, lo scrittore Neil Gaiman, da Ben Folds e da Damian Kulash degli Ok Go. Nighty Night è il loro progetto: un'album scritto e registrato in una sola notte.





I met Nikola Tesla in a diner in New York
He was eating cotton candy in the dark
I sat down at his table and I asked him for a light
When his eyes met mine I thought I felt a spark
His glance was like and x-ray and he looked me to the bone
A touch from him my blood began to boil
It was the 24th of March he had a really cute moustache
And then he kissed me in an alley and I felt my insides coil

Nikola Tesla
I wish you’d invent a
Current that could activate my heart
Mysterious gesture
I do not expect you
Come back from 1932
I’ll always burn a light for you
Sweetheart

I’d dreamed of someone like you ever since I was a girl
A mystery man inventing something new
Just a guy with a transformer who could make me something warmer
Who could open up my circuitry and make me someone new
When Edison got angry my Nikola only grinned
And explained that wireless power was the way
He’d overturn thesystem there was no way to resist him
And he kissed me one more time and told me he’d come back one day

Nikola Tesla
I wish you’d invent a
Current that could activate my heart
Mysterious jester
I do not expect you
Come back from 1932
I’ll always burn a light for you
Sweetheart

Edison’s enemy
Man who gave us AC
He’ll always be to me
My little serb
Voice on the radio
I’m looking high and low
Here in the afterglow
Send me a word

So I waited while the valves inside my heart all dimmed and chilled
He had secrets that he stored inside eight chests
And he took his many mysteries and walked off into history
And he left me with a fading sort of feeling in my breast
I’ve been waiting here for decades, just a dusty afterthought
I’ve been waiting for Nikola to come back
It is painful and ironic not to mention electronic
That he’d vanish in a crackle, into air and fade to black

Nikola Tesla
I wish you’d invent a
Current that could activate my heart
Mysterious jester
I do not expect you
Come back from 1932
I’ll always burn a light for you

ALBUM: NIGHTY NIGHT (2011)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: A FOOLISH ARRANGEMENT/THE CURE

Christabel strips and slips like a dream
Breaking ice with arms that gleam with pain
Disdain, she throws her head
And glides against the stream
Throwing me her bravest smile
Defiant, glittering, shivering guile
Catching a cold is quick this time
But fish?
Fish may take a while

Christabel dips and slips from me
And hand pushed deep inside is suddenly free
Triumphant, reluctantly
Struggling six legs held up for me to see
Don't be so scared
It's nothing new
It's the same old game
Only fun with two
But fast and over and over
I can`t play this game with you

Everything she tries to tell me
Leaves me open mouthed and still
Foolishly arrange tomorrow
The way I always will

Christabel trips and grips my hand
But never to be saved
For a second I understand
And I fall with her
I'll never leave you
Love you
See you change into the man I want
But it's not for long this thing
It's not for long

Everything she tries to tell me
Leaves me open mouthed and still
Foolishly arrange tomorrow
The way I always will
Everything she tries to tell me
Leaves me open mouthed and still
Foolishly arrange tomorrow
The way I always will

ALBUM: A LETTER TO ELISE (Single) (1992)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: BLASPHEMOUS RUMOURS/DEPECHE MODE

Girl of 16
Whole life ahead of her
Slashed her wrists
Bored with life
Didn't succeed
Thank the lord
For small mercies

Fighting back the tears
Mother reads the note again
16 candles burn in her mind
She takes the blame
It's always the same
She goes down on her knees and prays

I don't want to start any blasphemous rumours
But I think that god's got a sick sense of humour
And when I die I expect to find him laughing

I don't want to start any blasphemous rumours
But I think that god's got a sick sense of humour
And when I die I expect to find him laughing

Girl of 18
Fell in love with everything
Found new life in Jesus Christ
Hit by a car
Ended up
On a life support machine

Summer's day
As she passed away
Birds were singing in the summer sky
Then came the rain
And once again
A tear fell from her mother's eye

I don't want to start any blasphemous rumours
But I think that god's got a sick sense of humour
And when I die I expect to find him laughing

I don't want to start any blasphemous rumours
But I think that god's got a sick sense of humour
And when I die I expect to find him laughing

ALBUM: SOME GREAT REWARD (1984)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: DON'T LIKE YOU (WHAT THE HELL ARE WE SUPPOSED TO DO)/THE WANNADIES

What've we become
Everything we had is gone
For a while I thought we were best of friends
What's on my mind
I used to see you all the time
That's all gone
The fun is gone

You don't like me, I don't like you
What the hell are we supposed to do
Who's to blame this time
I don't like you, you don't like me
Whatever reason you've got I disagree
Who's to blame this time

What's there to say
Don't know the rules, don't like the game
You're a fake I guess so that's all the same
What's with my head
I'm tired can't get out of bed
Something's wrong
The fun is gone

You don't like me, I don't like you
What the hell are we supposed to do
Who's to blame this time
I don't like you, you don't like me
Whatever reason you've got I disagree
Who's to blame this time
Who's to blame this time

ALBUM: YEAH (2000)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: FOOL'S DAY/BLUR

Wake up straight called out by the sun
On the first day of april out of bed
Lord, it was a plane crash
But I’m sure that I was dreaming TV on
Of course caffeine and signs
Of submission again another day
On this little island
Just a bell hangs on

Porridge done i take my kid to school
It was the pound shop
Woolworth’s under bridge
Where the subway sees the daytime
And the Westway flies by then on my bike
Down the Ladbroke Grove
To the forthcoming dramas
The studio and a love of all sweet music
We just can’t let go
Let go, let go, let go

So meditate on what we’ve all become
On a cold day in springtime
Civil war is what we all were born into
Raise your left hand, right, sing
Don’t capitulate to the forces of the market place
They’re long departed, consolidate
The love we’ve had together
On a cold day in springtime

ALBUM: FOOL'S DAY (7" Single For Record Store Day) (2010)

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LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: BREAK THE NIGHT WITH COLOUR/RICHARD ASHCROFT

Fools, they think I do not know the road I'm taking
If you meet me on the way, hesitating
That is just because I know which way I will choose

The corridors of discontent that I've been travelling
On the lonely search for truth, the world's so frightening
Nothing's going right today cos nothing ever does

I don't wanna know your secrets
They lie heavy on my head
Let's break the night with colour
Time for me to move ahead

Monday morning coming down like understanding
Momma thinks you are the clown, you're lookin so frightning
Nothing's going right today cos nothing ever does

I don't wanna know your secrets
They lie heavy on my head
Time for me to break my cover
Time for me to move ahead

Give it up, here we go again
Gonna give it up, here we go again

I don't wanna know your secrets
They lie heavy on my head
Let's break the night with colour
Time for me to move ahead

ALBUM: KEYS TO THE WORLD (2005)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: THE DARK OF THE MATINÉE/FRANZ FERDINAND

You take your white finger
Slide the nail under the top and bottom buttons of my blazer
Relax the fraying wool, slacken ties
And I'm not to look at you in the shoe, but the eyes

So find me and follow me through corridors, refectories and files
You must follow, leave this academic factory
You will find me in the matinee
The dark of the matinee
It's better in the matinee
The dark of the matinee is mine
Yes it's mine

I time every journey to bump into you, accidentally
I charm you and tell you of the boys I hate
All the girls I hate
All the words I hate
The clothes I hate
How I'll never be anything I hate
You smile, mention something that you like
How you'd have a happy life if you did the things you like

So find me and follow me through corridors, refectories and files
You must follow, leave this academic factory
You will find me in the matinee
The dark of the matinee
It's better in the matinee
The dark of the matinee is mine
Yes it's mine

So I'm on BBC2 now, telling Terry Wogan how I made it
What I made is unclear, but his deference is and his laughter is
My words and smile are so easy now
Yes, It's easy now
Yes, It's easy now

So find me and follow me through corridors, refectories and files
You must follow, leave this academic factory
You will find me in the matinee
The dark of the matinee
It's better in the matinee
The dark of the matinee is mine
Yes it's mine

ALBUM: FRANZ FERDINAND (2004)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: LA FAVOLA DI ADAMO ED EVA/MAX GAZZÈ

Santi numi ma che pena mi fate
Strozzati inghiottiti come olive ascolane
Spiedini di carne in fila sulle autostrade
Saldare al casello tanto per ringraziare
Pensarsi arrivati dopo un lungo week-end
Chiedo venia trovo un po' esagerato
Pagare tre volte un litro di benzina
Sentirsi ridire con sorrisi di rame
Che sono costretti dal mercato dei cambi
Ma andate a cagare voi e le vostre bugie

Credo di notare una leggera flessione del senso sociale
La versione scostante dell'essere umano che non aspettavo
Cadere su un uomo così divertente ed ingenuo da credere ancora
Alla favola di Adamo ed Eva
La favola di Adamo ed Eva

Dico quel che penso e faccio quello che dico
L'azione è importante siamo uomini troppo distratti
Da cose che riguardano vite e fantasmi futuri
Ma il futuro è toccare mangiare tossire ammalarsi d'amore

Credo di notare una leggera flessione del senso sociale
La versione scostante dell'essere umano che non aspettavo
Cadere su un uomo così divertente ed ingenuo da credere ancora
Alla favola di Adamo ed Eva
La favola di Adamo ed Eva

ALBUM: LA FAVOLA DI ADAMO ED EVA (1998)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: FALLS TO CLIMB/R.E.M.

I'll take the position
Assume the missionary part
You work by committee
You had me pegged from the start
I'll be pounce pony
Phony maroney
Pony before the cart
I'll be pounce pony
This ceremony
Only fills my heart
Who cast the final stone?
Who threw the crushing blow?
Someone has to take the fall
Why not me?
A punch toy volunteer
A weakling on its knee
Is all you want to hear
And all you want to see
Romantically, you'd martyr me
And miss this story's point
It is my strength, my destiny
This is the role that I have chosen
Who cast the final stone?
Who threw the crushing blow?
Someone has to take the fall
Why not me?
Why not me?
Gentlemen, mark your opponents
Fire into your own ranks
Pick the weakest as strategic
Move, square off
To meet your enemy
For each and every gathering
A scapegoat falls to climb
As I step forward, silently
Deliberately mine
Who cast the final stone?
Who threw the crushing blow?
Someone has to take the fall
Why not me?
Why not me?
Had consequence chose differently
Had fate its ugly head
My actions make me beautiful
And dignify the flesh
Me I am free
I am free

ALBUM: UP (1998)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: THERE'S NO OTHER WAY/BLUR

You're taking the fun
Out of everything
Making me run
When I don't want to think
You're taking the fun
Out of everything
I don't want to think at all

There's no other way
There's no other way
All that you can do
Is watch them play

You're taking the fun
Out of everything
You're making it clear
When I don't want to think
You're taking me up
When I don't want to go up anymore
I'm just watching it all

There's no other way
There's no other way
All that you can do
Is watch them play

ALBUM: LEISURE (1991)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: C'MON BILLY/PJ HARVEY

C'mon Billy
Come to me
You know I'm waiting
I love you endlessly
C'mon Billy
You're the only one
Don't you think it's time now you met your only son
I remember lover's play
The corn was gold and we lay in it for days
I remember the things you said
My little Billy come to your lover's bed
Come home is my plea
Your home now is here with me
Come home to your son
Tomorrow might never come

C'mon Billy
You look good to me
How many nites now
Your child inside
Oh, don't forget me
I had your son
Damn thing went crazy
But I swear you're the only one

Come along Billy come to me
Come along Billy come to me
Come along Billy come to me
Come along Billy come to me
Come along Billy come to me
Come along Billy come to me
Come along Billy come to me
Come along now and come to me

ALBUM: TO BRING YOU MY LOVE (1995)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: BEAUTIFUL DAY/U2

The heart is a bloom
Shoots up through the stony ground
But there's no room
No space to rent in this town
You're out of luck
And the reason that you had to care
The traffic is stuck
And you're not moving anywhere

You thought you'd found a friend
To take you out of this place
Someone you can lend a hand
In return for grace

It's a beautiful day
The sky falls
And you feel like it's a beautiful day
Don't let it get away

You're on the road
But you've got no destination
You're in the mud
In the maze of her imagination
You love this town
Even if it doesn't ring true
You've been all over
And it's been all over you

It's a beautiful day
Don't let it get away
It's a beautiful day
Touch me, Take me to that other place
Teach me, I know I'm not a hopeless case

See the world in green and blue
See China right in front of you
See the canyons broken by cloud
See the tuna fleets clearing the sea out
See the bedouin fires at night
See the oil fields at first light and
See the bird with the leaf in her mouth
After the flood all the colors came out

It was a beautiful day
Don't let it get away
Beautiful day
Touch me, take me to that other place
Reach me, I know I'm not a hopeless case

What you don't have you don't need it now
What you don't know you can feel it somehow
What you don't have you don't need it now
Don't need it now
Was a beautiful day

ALBUM: ALL THAT YOU CAN'T LEAVE BEHIND (2000)

POST-IT: BRUTTE FIGURE ITALIANE (Feat. MUSE)

L'Italia è un paese di santi, poeti e navigatori. Ed incompetenti. Una Repubblica fondata sul lavoro. E sul pressapochismo. Dispiace dirlo, ma spesso è così. Ieri, ad esempio i Muse erano ospiti della trasmissione Quelli Che Il Calcio presentata da Simona Ventura. Vistasi negata la possibilità di suonare dal vivo il loro nuovo singolo Uprising, la band britannica, confidando nella totale ignoranza della Ventura e del suo staff, ha pensato bene di trasformare l'esibizione in uno spettacolo comico, invertendo i ruoli (Matthew Bellamy alla batteria è uno spasso) ed enfatizzando movenze ed espressioni come e meglio di una boy-band. Ora, personalmente non ho apprezzato moltissimo l'ultimo album The Resistance, ma bisogna riconoscere che la trovata è stata decisamente geniale! Manco a dirlo, la strapagata conduttrice nostrana non si è accorta di nulla, ed è caduta nel tranello con tutte le (presumibilmente costosissime) scarpe. L'imbarazzo ha raggiunto il culmine quando Simona, intervistando quello che pensava fosse il cantante (Dominic Howard, per l'occasione), gli ha chiesto chi dei 3 fosse fidanzato con una psicologa italiana e vivesse in una villa sul lago di Como (con tanto di scontato paragone con la dimora di George Clooney): la risposta, ovviamente, è stata che si trattava del batterista...
Allego il link della pagina di Wikipedia (in italiano, oltretutto) sui Muse: sarebbe bastato un click per evitare questa incredibile brutta figura.

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: ANNINA/MAX GAZZÈ

Se ho cambiato lo shampoo è per te amore mio
Se ho cambiato città è per te amore mio
Se ho cambiato divano è per te amore mio
Guarda quel cappottino lo prendo per te
Lo faccio per te

Se ti porto al mare è per te amore mio
Se ti porto a ballare è per te amore mio
Se ti porto a Parigi è per te amore mio
Guarda quell'orsacchiotto lo prendo per te
Lo faccio per te

Se non bevo caffè è per te amore mio
Se ascoltiamo Vivaldi è per te amore mio
Se non fumo più è per te amore mio
Guarda quel fiorellino lo prendo per te
Lo faccio per te

Annina mia
Annina mia

Se guardiamo il tramonto è per te Annina mia
Se contiamo le stelle è per te Annina mia
Ma se vuoi fare qualcosa per me amore mio
Stai zitta
Stai zitta
Annina mia
Stai zitta
Amore mio
Stai zitta

ALBUM: UN GIORNO (2004)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: MARRIED WITH CHILDREN/OASIS

There's no need for you to say you're sorry
Goodbye, I'm going home
I don't care no more so don't you worry
Goodbye, I'm going home

I hate the way that even though you know you're wrong
You say you're right
I hate the books you read and all your friends
Your music's shite, it keeps me up all night, up all night

There's no need for you to say you're sorry
Goodbye, I'm going home
I don't care no more so don't you worry
Goodbye, I'm going home

I hate the way that you are so sarcastic
And you're not very bright
You think that everything you've done's fantastic
Your music's shite, it keeps me up all night, up all night

And it will be nice to be alone for a week or two
But I know then I will be right, right back here with you
With you, with you, with you, with you, with you, with you

There's no need for you to say you're sorry
Goodbye, I'm going home
I don't care no more so don't you worry
Goodbye, I'm going home

ALBUM: DEFINITELY MAYBE (1994)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: JUST A MAN/FAITH NO MORE

Sky is clear tonight
Sky is clear tomorrow

A star is out
I reach for one to sparkle in my hand
A star is out
I will not touch you I am and just a man

Sky is clear tonight
Sky is clear tomorrow

And every night I shut my eyes
So I don't have to see the light
Shining so bright
I'll dream about a cloudy sky
A cloudy sky

Man was born to love
Though often he has sought
Like Icarus, to fly to high
And far too lonely then he ought
To kill the sun of east and west
And hold the world as his behest

To hold the terrible power
To whom only gods are blessed
But me, I am just a man

And every night I shut my eyes
So I don't have to see the light
Shining so bright
I'll dream about a cloudy sky
A cloudy sky

And every night I shut my eyes
But now I've got them open wide
You've fallen into my hands
And now you're burning me
And now you're burning me

ALBUM: KING FOR A DAY, FOOL FOR A LIFETIME (1995)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: FUNNY THE WAY IT IS/DAVE MATTHEWS BAND

Lying in the park on a beautiful day
Sunshine in the grass and the children play
Sirens pass in fire engine red
Someone's house is burning down on a day like this

The evening comes and we're hanging out
On the front step and a car goes by with the windows rolled down
And that war song is playing
"Why can't we be friends?"
Someone is screaming and crying in the apartment upstairs

Funny the way it is
If you think about it
Somebody's going hungry and someone else is eating out
Funny the way it is
Not right or wrong
Somebody's heart is broken and it becomes your favorite song

The way your mouth feels in your lover's kiss
Like a pretty bird on the breeze or water to a fish
A bomb blast brings the building crashing to the floor
Hear the laughter while the children play war

Funny the way it is
If you think about it
One kid walks ten miles to school, another's dropping out
Funny the way it is
Not right or wrong
On a soldier's last breath, his baby's being born

Standing on a bridge
Watch the water passing underneath
It must have been much harder when there was no bridge, just water
Now the world is small
Remember how it used to be
With mountains and oceans and winters and rivers and stars

Watch the sky, a jet plane so far out of my reach
Is there someone up there looking down on me?
A boy sees a bird, so close but every time
He'll never catch her but he can't stop trying

Funny the way it is
If you think about it
One kid walks ten miles to school, another's dropping out
Funny the way it is
Not right or wrong
On a soldier's last breath, his baby's being born

Funny the way it is
Not right or wrong
Somebody's broken heart becomes your favorite song
Funny the way it is
If you think about it
One kid walks ten miles to school, another's dropping out

Standing on a bridge
Watch the water passing underneath
It must have been much harder when there was no bridge, just water
Now the world is small
Remember how it used to be
With mountains and oceans and winters and rivers and stars

ALBUM: BIG WHISKEY AND THE GROOGRUX KING (2009)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: WALK AWAY/FRANZ FERDINAND

I swapped my innocence for pride
Crushed the end within my stride
Said I'm strong now I know that I'm a leaver
I love the sound of you walking away
Mascara bleeds a blackened tear
And I am cold
Yes, I'm cold
But not as cold as you are
I love the sound of you walking away

Why don't you walk away?
Why don't you walk away?
No buildings will fall down
Why don't you walk away?
No quake will split the ground
Why don't you walk away?
The sun won't swallow the sky
Why don't you walk away?
Statues will not cry
Why don't you walk away?

I cannot turn to see those eyes
As apologies may rise
I must be strong and stay an unbeliever
And love the sound of you walking away
Mascara bleeds into my eye
I'm not cold
I am old
At least
As old as you are

As you walk away?
As you walk away?
My headstone crumbles down
As you walk away
The Hollywood winds a-howl
As you walk away
The Kremlin's falling
As you walk away
Radio Four is static
As you walk away

The stab of stiletto
On a silent night
Stalin Smiles
Hitler laughs
Churchill claps
Mao Tse Tung
On the back

ALBUM: YOU COULD HAVE IT SO MUCH BETTER (2005)