MUSIC by Francesco Candia, Nino Candia & Paolo Fusco

LYRICS BY Paolo D'Addio

 

 

CHILDREN

Beautiful boy, beautiful girl

dearest love of mine

ease my yearnings now

he delirious, she mysterious

(For our dearest ones)

 

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STAY GOLD

Stay gold, forever young

youth rush in my blood

River run

sunbeams in your dawning eyes

(For River Phoenix)

 

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BRIDE TO YOUR GROOM

Sunlight texture imitating flame

a flock of birds across the town make the daybreak shiver

and a wet one skips the churchyard lawn as happy as rain on sandy deserts

as a cloud comes up the summer-white vaulted dome and steeple

he turns his liquid anguished eyes to the swing of her walk

his own pulse beating at the words he keeps repeating

at the edge of the blue he’ll catch the breeze

take the rising tide and sail beyond the charted seas

the unoceaned explorer

how sweet it is her mouth, sooner to soften

touch after touch he’ll bless her folly

reaching downwards like a blind man reading

trembling softly in thrall, the moon’s darkened and shone

like a breast revealed by the slipping shawl of stars

and on the luminous night’s wintry bower

out of the flood of mansions, the larks cease to croon unnoticed

glad to come back to where they come from

with sparks of wonder and numberless secrets keeping

all the lovely macrocosm

bride to your groom

she says “I’ll enter the house

and you shall shut the doors on me”

he says “I’ll bring you through the flame

and you shall pause the heavens for me”

(For my sweetest friend)