Con il corpo sono qui
ma la mente mia non c’è’
sta volando dietro te
i miei occhi sono chiusi
ma ti vedo molto bene
stai uscendo da una casa e
corri verso me
il volto della vita ah ah
il volto dell’amore
hai capito che mi ami
fra la gente stai correndo
sopra un’auto stai salendo e
corri verso me
luci rosse sulla strada
e pallore sul tuo viso
il tuo amore si è riacceso e
corri verso me
il volto della vita ah ah
il volto dell’amore
con il cuore ancora in gola
stai correndo sulle scale
con il sole nelle mani
corri verso me
e qualcuno ha bussato
il tuo viaggio è terminato
io mi alzo per aprire
apro e vedo te
il volto della vita ah ah
il volto dell’amore
il volto della vita ah ah
il volto dell’amore
Walked and worn by shoeless feet
Inside it’s long and so complete
Watched by a shivering sun
Old eyes in a small child’s face
Watching as the shadows race
Through walls and cracks and leave no trace
And daylight’s brightness shunsThe days of Pearly Spencer
The race is almost runNose pressed hard on frosted glass
Gazing as the swollen mass
On concrete fields where grows no grass
Stumbles blindly on
Iron trees smother the air
But withering they stand and stare
Through eyes that neither know nor care
Where the grass is gone
The days of Pearly Spencer
The race is almost run
Pearly where’s your milk white skin
What’s that stubble on your chin
It’s buried in the rot gut gin
You played and lost not won
You played a house that can’t be beat
Now look your head’s bowed in defeat
You walked too far along the street
Where only rats can run
The days of Pearly Spencer
The race is almost run
The days of Pearly Spencer
The race is almost run
A tenement, a dirty street
Remember worn and shoeless feet
Remember how you stood to beat
The way your life had gone
So pearly don’t you shed more tears
For those best forgotten years
Those tenements are memories
Of where you’ve risen from
The days of Pearly Spencer
The race is almost won
Cantiere poesia 