LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: BITTERSWEET MELODIES/FEIST

Fotografie di Irina Werner

Whispers in the grass
Under slow dancing trees
Birds are telling me stories
Saying you were meant for me

With their bittersweet melodies
Like a sweet memory
Bittersweet melodies
Can't go back
I can't go on without those
Bittersweet melodies

Weakened kitchen floor
Snow slips under the door
Tiny speakers were singing
Telephone always ringing

With those bittersweet melodies
Like a sweet memory
Bittersweet melodies
Can't go back
I can't go on

I remember us
Before we turned to dusk
Just when these feelings were all about
When we still could trust in our hearts

Bittersweet melody
Like a sweet memory
Bittersweet melody
Can't go back
I can't go on
Both of us singing that same old song
With those bittersweet melody
Like a sweet memory
Bittersweet melody
And it seemed oh so wrong
Since those bittersweet melody played for me

ALBUM: METALS (2011)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: DON'T WAKE THE SCARECROW/THE FELICE BROTHERS

Would you love me
If I told you I was born upstream
If I told you I come from money
White money
Would you love me
Would you love me
Well, I was born down
By a bad little river in a poor town
Where an indian-giver put a board out
It said boarding house
Call him scarecrow
He kept whores around
And I'd go there
I'd wait my turn on the broke stairs
And get me the girl with the gold hair
Leave your clothes there
On the folding chair
In that cold room
Your breath would twist just like ghosts do
You said call me Dorothy in red shoes
And the bed moved
The bed moved
The bed moved

Tracy, don't you wake that scarecrow tonight

Well, the man would come in
It's hard living right giving head when
The sad days of winter have set in
And the medicine for an addict is heroin
I'd find you there in the bath
We'd cook up your shit in a tin can
And you started calling me tin man
And we started making plans to begin again
Begin again
You saved a C note
Told me you felt like a seagull
Told me to meet at the depot
With the needle
Then maybe we'd go to Reno
Where you'd be my desert dove
And we'd find a way to make better love
Said, baby, that's How the West Was Won
And the blood-red sun
The blood-red sun
And the blood-red

Tracy, don't you wake that scarecrow tonight

Well, the man cries
Who gives a damn when a tramp dies?
But I loved you there in the lamp light
With your bare thighs
And the halo of your hair
And all my lifelong
I'll never shake off your siren song
And all of your talk about dying young
With an iron lung and that crazy way
You said, Simon
I think I might stay here with scarecrow tonight
Simon, I think I'm gonna stay here with scarecrow tonight

ALBUM: THE FELICE BROTHERS (2008)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: BLUE TULIP/OKKERVIL RIVER

They're waiting to hate you
So give them an excuse
They say that it changed you
I know that can't be true
I came in the entrance
The makeup girl went through
And waited for ages
I waited there for you

Hats off to my distant hope
I'm held back by a velvet rope
And he's behind the wall
The smoke machine has made between us
And if he does exist, if camera clicking
Green room guests swirl around
The man whose real life can be touched
Then I will do just that much

Hats off to my distant hope
A little lie, a puff of smoke
My street tonight's on fire with hope
You'll be there, you'll see us
I've got my ear against the screen
I'll feel your feelings crackling
For every single inch of me
I'm going to make you mean it
With every single cell of me
I'm going to make you mean the words you sigh
Goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye

ALBUM: THE STAND INS (2008)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: SPIDERS AND FLIES/MERCURY REV

Plans and schemes
Thoughts and dreams
Who cares what they mean
When they work they're amazing things
When they don't I hear you scream
Spiders and flies
Live and die
Six legs to stand on and two wings to fly
I can't remember and I can't decide
What was the season and the color of your eyes
Eyes

Pharaohs and kings
Favorite queens
Buried with their precious rings
When they lived they loved complete
But in their tombs I hear them scream
Spiders and flies
Live and die
Six legs to stand on and two wings to fly
I can't remember and I can't decide
What was the season and the color of your eyes
Eyes

Psalms and spells
Magic blast
Who cares what they cast
I dreamed I'd always love you complete
I never thought I'd hear you scream
Spiders and flies
Live and die
Eight legs to stand on and two wings to fly
It makes you wonder, why can't I
What was the reason for the color of your eyes
Eyes

Spiders and flies
Live and die
Eight legs to stand on and two wings to fly
It makes you wonder, why can't I
What was the reason for the color of your eyes
Eyes

ALBUM: ALL IS DREAM (2001)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE LET ME GET WHAT I WANT/THE SMITHS

Good times for a change
See the luck I've had
Can make a good man turn bad
So please, please, please
Let me, let me, let me
Let me get what I want this time

Haven't had a dream in a long time
See the life I've had
Can make a good man bad
So for once in my life
Let me get what I want
Lord knows it would be the first time
Lord knows it would be the first time

ALBUM: LOUDER THAN BOMBS (1987)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: ON MELANCHOLY HILL/GORILLAZ

Up on melancholy hill
There's a plastic tree
Are you here with me
Just looking out on the day
Of another dream
Well you can't get what you want
But you can get me
So let's set up and see
'Cause you are my medicine
When you're close to me
When you're close to me

So call in the submarine
Round the world will go
Does anybody know
If we're looking out on the day
Of another dream

If you can't get what you want
Then you come with me

Up on melancholy hill
A manatee?
Just looking out on the day
When you're close to me
When you're close to me

When you're close to me

ALBUM: PLASTIC BEACH (2010)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: IN THIS WORLD/MOBY

Lordy don't leave me all by myself
Lordy don't leave me all by myself
Lordy don't leave me all by myself
Lordy don't leave me all by myself

Good time's the devil I'm a force of heaven
Good time's the devil I'm a force of heaven
Good time's the devil I'm a force of heaven

Lordy don't leave me all by myself
Lordy don't leave me all by myself
Lordy don't leave me all by myself

So many time's I'm down down down
So many time's I'm down down down
So many time's I'm down down down with the ground

Lordy don't leave me all by myself
Lordy don't leave me all by myself
Lordy don't leave me all by myself
Lordy don't leave me all by myself
In this world
In this world
In this world

Lordy don't leave me all by myself
Lordy don't leave me all by myself

ALBUM: 18 (2002)