Franco Battiato
Franco Battiato
Franco Battiato
Franco Battiato
Franco Battiato
Franco Battiato
Franco Battiato
Franco Battiato
Franco Battiato
Franco Battiato
The lyric of this song is actually two lyrics intertwined and sung in parallel. The one in English is mostly sung by a female singer and the Spanish one (and the Italian one in the original version) by Franco Battiato (who sometimes doubles in the English lyrics)
In nineteen forty-five, I came to this planet!
Escuchaba ayer mismo un cantante uno de tantos
Y hallé mis hojos llenos de estupor
I've seen many things in this part of the world
Al oír: “el cielo azul se muestra espléndido y real”
Let me tell you something
(El cielo casi siempre tiene algo de infernal)
Días extraños, vivimos días extraños
Cantaba: (Life can be short or long)
Oigo sonidos de swing que me llegan del Neolítico
(It depends)
Del Holoceno (Where you go at night)
Oigo notas de un violín
(Alone and walking alone through the grey Sunday streets)
Y me circundan el alba
(Looking for someone)
Y la mañana
(The place was clean, well lit)
¿Quién sabe como era entonces?
(I went in, and I said, I suppose I said)
¿El río del Amazonas? (Whisky, please)
Y Alejandría la grande (The place was clean, well lit)
¿Y los rezos y el amor? (Two men in a corner were waiting)
¿Y como sería el color? (I saw it from their hands)
You look at the hands, not at the face
If you want to stay out of trouble
Me lamían sonidos que cubrían la rabia
Y venganza de los hombres con mazas
También batallas, matanzas de los hombres civiles
(Looking for someone)
El hombre Neozoico (Where you go at night)
De la Era Cuaternaria
Días extraños, (Strange days)
Vivimos días extraños (I lived through strange days)
En la voz de un cantante
Se refleja el sol
Cada amada, cada amante
Días extraños, vivimos días extraños
I've fallen into reverie
I dreamed a vague outline
The whisky flowed
Sending me into the past
Action roll the cameras
Here comes a lightning tour of my life
The two in the corner didn't say a word
Días Extraños was written by Franco Battiato & Manlio Sgalambro.
Días Extraños was produced by Franco Battiato.