These are the words I wrote for Q&A Project.
Questions and answers about life, phases, experiences, emotions, points of view.
I like the idea of sharing them with you, resonating together and “searching” within us to make our soul flourish.
ASK AND YE SHALL RECEIVE
Music by A. De Luca – Lyrics by S. Berni and A. De Luca
You were yet around me
When I couldn’t see you, you were there
Perfectly drawn in my wishlist
Calling out your vibration
I wrote every detail that made you up
Calling out your vibration
I materialized you into my life
That night we went out despite
No desire then we collide in a crowded club
While a band without creative sparks
Bored us to death
Now I’m watching you
A picture tells a story and you are
A world to discover that dropped a line by e-mail
I can sense your feeling
I can guess your sensuousness
Left-handed man I asked for you
I can see your nature
I can predict your sensitiveness
Left-handed man I asked for you
That night we went out despite
No desire then we collide in a crowded club
While a band without creative sparks
Bored us to death
Ask and ye shall receive
Ask ask ask…
Write down your wishlist
Write write write write… write
Ask and ye shall receive
Ask ask ask…
SAD AND GLAD (COMING FROM MARS)
Music by A. De Luca and S. Berni – Lyrics by S. Berni and A. De Luca
It’s a little complicated
To live in this world that seems alien to my nature
I don’t care about cars football hairdressers
Every kind of drugs or perfect masks to survive
I’m a warrior against my own fears and I feel respect
And compassion for every living thing
I can’t imagine spending my time in front of a TV
And my key-word is “freedom” whatever it means
Maybe you can keep my heart in your hands
Maybe you can keep my heart in your hands
But please be gentle I come from mars
And my solitude whispers:
“Remember… remember… remember… remember”
I’m so weak, I’m so sad and glad at the same time
I’m so weak, I’m so sad and glad at the same time
I’ve declared war to the murmur of my mind
And to the gossip of the outside
Sometimes my ideas are taxed
With being revolutionary and insane or conceited
Maybe I can’t keep your heart in my hands
Maybe I can’t keep your heart in my hands
But if I could I would be gentle
And I’d incite your loneliness to whisper in your ear:
“Remember… remember… remember… remember”
I’m so sad I’m so glad I’m so weak at the same time
I’m so strong I’m so sad and glad at the same time
Remember… remember… remember… remember…
NEW WINGS
Music by M. Maneri – Lyrics by S. Berni
Oh golden hope are you here again?
Come through the darkness,
Take him out from tears
Let him not suffer in these rainy day
Steal him from despair
Keep his eyes on the stars
So once again I will pray you to keep him
On this sweetest earth
Or give him new wings to fly to my lord
Oh, golden hope snatch him from death
And if it can’t be so hold him in your arms
Make him not wander
In mazes of fears
Give him the strength to rest
Or the peace to leave
So once again I will pray you to keep him
On this sweetest earth
Or give him new wings to fly to my lord
Give him new wings to fly to my lord…
Hold him in your arms
In your arms…
Can you hear me?… Can you hear me?!…
THIS KIND OF BLUE
Music by F. Pantini – Lyrics by S. Berni
It’s never too late…
I don’t know how many times
I tried to fight off all my fears
I don’t know how many hopes
I tried to grow up through my sweat
So long so many tears I’ve cried
So long so many dreams I dried
But out of my mind I searched another way
And everyday you can do the same
Cos mother you’re the only
Mistress of your life and of your assumptions
Mother you have the power for creating
All your darkness or your sun
I don’t know how many times
I tried to think all was in me
And everything I deeply believed
It could come true out of my wish
So long so much strength I’ve found
So long I was charmed by my desire
But out of my mind I searched another sound
To compose the tune that made me fine
Cos mother you’re the only
Mistress of your life and of your assumptions
Mother you have the power for creating
All your darkness or your sun
All your rapture or your distress
You can decide to hear now
These words that come from the best of my love
And I will always wish you to understand
You can choose to get away from
This kind of blue…
It’s never too late
THE SNOW IS LIKE A DREAM
Music by A. De Luca – Lyrics by S. Berni and A. De Luca
The snow is like a dream and
I look to myself
Walking in such a connection
Between me and me
The snow falls down
And I listen to
The silence that tells me
To be better
I must learn to cry and
If I want to know
I’ve got to open my arms
And let its way be my way
The snow is like a dream
It falls out my window
I look at white fields
While you’re holding my hand
Tell me now what I should know
But you say sometimes it’s not
Possible to find all the answers
You could even meet me
At the center of the earth
I would always open my arms
Cos today my way is your way home
… My way home
The snow is like a river
It brings us inside ourselves
And it’s incredible that all of us
Try to escape out of there
Out of there… out of there…
GET OUT!
Music by F. Pantini – Lyrics by S. Berni
I was told a story once
And many times I heard it again
This is the story of a perfect world
This is the story of men
This is the tale ’bout parity
This is the tale about justice
This is the tale ’bout brotherood
This is the tale about charity
This is the tale ’bout sympathy
This is the tale about respect
This is the tale ’bout civility
This is the tale ’bout humanity
You don’t know many things
So you trust in something aimless
And think their teaching’s always right
But it’s time to open up your eyes
And get out! Get out! Get out!
This is a world of politicians
This is a world of enchanters
This is a world of clergymen
This is a world of greediness
This is a world of psychologists
This is a world of manipulators
This is a world of vivisection
This is a world of false science
I was told a story once
And many times I heard it again…
They choose the articles that you
Read everyday… shunning eye-openers
But it’s time to understand
And get out! Get out! Get out!
SHUT IN A SHELL
Music by M. Maneri – Lyrics by S. Berni
Every morning she goes out
She’s a young lady and she’s in my prayers
She can’t hide her heart and her temple throbbing
Again again again
But she can’t explain what she has to fear
She only lost her eyes to see the sun
And everyday is a winter evening
Where the silence seems to swallow her
It would have been so easy to grow
In the deep blue sea shut in a shell
So that she wouldn’t have had to face the world
Its rules, its strangeness and wrongs
And its dark side
How many times she thinks: “I’d die…
Again again again
Cos my dreams fall down more deeply
Where the emptiness swallows them”
It would have been so easy to grow
In the deep blue sea shut in a shell
So that she wouldn’t have had to face the world
Its rules its strangeness and wrongs
And its dark side
It would have been so easy to grow
In the deep blue sea shut in a shell
But the poetry of earth is never dead
And she knows that one of these days
She’ll hear it again
Again again again
WHEN LONELINESS BECOMES SOLITUDE
Music by A. De Luca and S. Berni – Lyrics by S. Berni
(Duet with Frank Polucci.)
I’m a little bit bored of listening to songs
That talk about pain ended loves failures
Loneliness and destruction
It’s very easy to find something similar inside of me
That resounds with my own experiences
And makes me feel that I’m not alone
‘Cause somewhere somehow someone can understand me
And can give a voice to what I’m not able to put into words
It would be better to think about marvels… wouldn’t it?
I used to listen to sad songs until I found out
That this identification brought into my life
Only more pain and self-pity
I used to listen to and write sad songs
Until I found out that it feeds my negative expectations
Making them come true
But somewhere somehow someone could understand me
And I needed to give voice to what was so hard to put into words
It would be better to think about marvels… wouldn’t it?
When loneliness becomes solitude and solitude becomes beauty
And beauty becomes peace… what’s happening seems “me”
With the name of freedom
With the name of freedom
It’s like that harmony when watering the plants at sunset
It’s like that incredible silence while looking at an intact snow blanket
It’s like that eternal coming and going of the waves on the sand
It’s like that sense of infinite while admiring boundless landscapes
It’s like that melting stroking the cat
It’s like that vanishing… vanishing… vanishing… while singing
Suddenly my mind stays quiet
Have you ever felt it?
THE FIRST, THE LAST
Music by M. Maneri – Lyrics by S. Berni
The first was a joke
And passion his name
Only a weak flame
Not enough for my heart
The song of the birds
The voice of the bells too
Oh for that time I tried to forget
The second a man
I called love his name
With shining dark eyes
He has stolen my mind
Small busy flames
Were burning my heart
But then came the time to get by so goodbye…
Oh… hold me tight
Until the morning will rise
Don’t leave me now
Before I told you that you are my love
I will die
If only you’ll say goodbye my love
I can’t hide
Loss is the flame that’s invading my heart
Loss is the flame
That’s consuming my heart
If only you’ll say goodbye…
The third a betrayal
And liar his name
A powerful flame
Push my heart to drown drunk
The faith in the truth
The intimacy too
After that time I went to forget
The last was a thought
And love was his name
No flowers or rhymes
Were blowing my mind
He looked like twin flame
A game fight or flight
But now it’s the time to get by so goodbye…
Oh… hold me tight
Until the morning will rise
Don’t leave me now
Before I told you that you are my love
No I won’t die
Even if you’ll say goodbye my love
I’ve just find
I am the flame that is feeding my heart
Love is the flame
That is growing my heart
Even if you’ll say goodbye
My love… oh my…
Even if I… yes I
I will say goodbye
Yeah, I will say Goodbye
ALWAYS WAITING
Music by A. De Luca and S. Berni – Lyrics by S. Berni
I usually wake up
Early in the morning
And I find myself
Waiting… waiting… waiting…
Waiting for a place to reach
Waiting for a way to go through
Waiting for a chance to overcome my thoughts
Waiting for a chance to start
Always waiting… waiting… waiting…
Until I guessed if I was really awake
Also late in the evening
Catching myself everytime
Waiting… waiting… waiting…
Waiting for something called happiness
Waiting for something called peace
Waiting for being able to enjoy life
Waiting for a permission to live
Always waiting… waiting… waiting…
It happened 3 hours ago
I did wake up early this morning
I did have a look all around me, and inside me
And I’ve finally found myself wide awake
And I’ve thrown away the verb “to wait”
So I could observe myself
Staying in a founded place
Walking along the way to come
Listening to the silence of my heart
Catching every moment as a chance
Understanding that happiness is loving
Loving happiness as my peace
Knowing well there is nothing to do or
Nothing, nothing to be
Giving me the right to be free
Giving me the right to be free
Living… living… living…
MINUTES
Music by M. Maneri – Lyrics by S. Berni
Minutes are flying swiftly
Nothing exciting has touched my brain
Something to catch my glories
Into a delphic labyrinth I don’t want to fail
Still time is fleeting and no words are coming
Nothing good to tell yet
I think about my story
And all my useless dreams
How could I talk about it?
How could I talk so sweetly
About my ambition and my foolish game?
About my flying sinking?
Into a delphic labyrinth I don’t wanna fade
Minutes are flying swiftly
I can’t keep fighting I’ve got to get away
Do I really care ’bout my glory?… no…
In the delphic labyrinth the music has made?
There’s nothing left to tell
And my dreams are vanishing
Does anybody hear me?
How could I talk so sweetly
About my ambition and my foolish game?
About my flying sinking
Into a delphic labyrinth I don’t wanna fade
I don’t wanna fade
Still time is fleeting and no words are coming
Nothing good to tell yet
I think about my story
And all my useless dreams
How could I talk about it?
I don’t wanna fade…
I don’t wanna fade…
YOU BELIEVE IN WHAT’S AROUND
Music by F. Pantini – Lyrics by S. Berni
You’ve never trust in your charm
And how much your coherence counts for me
A million times it’s so true
Your fairness lightens this world
‘Coz you believe in what’s around
You believe in what you’ve found
You believe in everyone
You believe in what you’ve found
You taught me when there’s a will
There’s always a way to go
You’ve always said: “light breaks
Where no sun shines” and I would get
You out from worries and wrongs
‘Coz you believe in what’s around
You believe in what you’ve found
You believe in everyone
You believe in wider
And your words always shine
It’s all I feel
And your words always shine
It’s all I feel
I learnt home is where heart is
So I know my home is near you
You are my greatest example
Of strength and courage and love
Oh father you’re the best soul
I’ll meet in ages of mankind
Dismiss the phantom of death
Because you are immortal though
You are the best man I know
You believe in wider
And your words always shine
It’s all I feel… It’s all I feel…
MY FRIEND’S FAIR EYES
Music by M. Maneri – Lyrics by S. Berni
I’ve lost my friend’s fair eyes
Now I hope my crying will reach you
And climb up the clouds out of life
Up to you and your loyal heart
To you that gave me all
You were my little spell
But I could not be so faithful
You never heard my pain
I am not happy without all the work
I did from your daily messes
Yet I must avoid thinking about
Sweetness caress and kisses
I made fun of you, my great joy
I’ve lost my friend’s fair eyes
So my tears must reach those
Who played with her life, defenceless life
Of keen ears and gentle heart
So now I write this song
Hoping this incantation
Could rewind the time I had with her
I gave her all my smiles
We are not happy without your funny moods
Without your strange way to bend your head
To drink a coffee from an empty glass
Sweetness caress and kisses
I made fun of you, my great joy
And I’ll never know why
There is someone saying you were
Only a dog
ALICE HAS LOST HER WONDERLAND
Music by A. De Luca and S. Berni – Lyrics by S. Berni
Welcome to the boundary of my youth
Where the end is not a question of age
But of something banally called innocence,
A container for your bliss and hopes
Alice is awake
Alice has lost her wonderland
Alice saw the wolves outside the door
And she knows they are not so tender as rabbits
Welcome to the fall of all illusions
Where nightmares invade your dreams and you
Learn to be on the alert and on the defensive
In a world made of card games to play
Alice is awake
Alice has lost her wonderland
Alice saw the wolves outside the door
And she knows they are not so tender as rabbits
She saw the wolves… outside the door!
Alice is awake
She has grown through tears
Alice is awake
She has grown through blood
Alice has lost her wonderland
But she has turned into a woman
And she has become a better warrior…
Alice has lost her wonderland
I have lost the wonderland… I have lost…
Alice is awake
She has grown through tears
Alice is awake
She has grown through blood
