Franco Battiato venezia istanbul

Venice instinctively reminds me of Istanbul
Same buildings overlooking the sea
Red sunsets that disappear into nothingness
D'Annunzio mounted his horse with futurist fanaticism
How much passion for airplanes and for the legionary bands
What tricks does nature play on man
Give me a packet of camel without a filter and a minerva
And a news report on the radio says that a tip attacks
Verticalizing the penalty area
Guys, don't play too often near hospitals
Socrates often spoke about the joys of love
And in the pupils' chests their hearts almost appeared
So much so that they also offered the body: mid-August fires
And the years of adolescence full of baptisms and communions
In the sacristy, Ave Maria
Once upon a time we played cards with friends and for parties
They wore ties for aesthetic and social reasons, the
Women chose a husband by mail
Ethics is an unconscious victim of
History, yesterday I saw two men who hugged each other in a suburban cinema and I think about how quickly morals change. Once upon a time Christians were killed and then the latter, with the excuse of witches, killed pagans. br/>Hail Mary
And so that the sun of the future may shine again on the earth
Let's make some space with another war