Below is the lyrics of the song Finnegan's Wake , artist - Pippo Pollina, Franco Battiato with translation
Original text with translation
Pippo Pollina, Franco Battiato
Alfa beta gamma delta
Sotto il ponte di Eraclito
Dove passava il fiume mi bagnai le mani e l’abito.
Eins zwei drei vier
Ascriver?
Il mio nome
Nell’albo d’oro dei pazzi sul palcoscenico dell’errore.
Perch?
Tutto si dice e perch?
Tutto si fa Senza sapere il perch?
Senza sapere come
Perch?
A tutto si crede e perch?
A nulla si crede mai
Barcolliamo fra falsi miti e uomini in malafede.
James tell me What do you want to say
With your book Finnegan’s wake.
Cos?
In basso come in alto
La legge di Trismegisto
L’ermete che dall’Egitto segnava le stelle sul registro.
Pi?
Diviso meno per
Io amo la matematica
Perch?
Lei non giudica I miei pensieri sulla genetica.
Perch?
Viviamo nell’era della divina apparenza
Della ferita profonda inferta al sole della coscienza.
Perch?
Tutto ci piace e tutto ci assottiglia
E ci riduce al prezzo incollato sul tappo della bottiglia.
Perch?
Viviamo al guinzaglio dell’indifferenza
Dei tabulati dei grafici in borsa e dei capricci della scienza.
Gente di Praga e Dublino
?
Forte l’odore del vino
Il sole tramonta a Sion
Due minuti pi?
Tardi che a Riom.
Sonno risveglio la quiete
Il pino la quercia l’abete
Der starke Geruch von Most
I go quickly to the silly Post
And I get lost.
(Grazie a Greta per questo testo)
Alpha beta gamma delta
Under the bridge of Heraclitus
Where the river passed, I wet my hands and clothes.
Eins zwei drei vier
Ascriver?
My name
In the roll of honor of madmen on the stage of error.
Why?
Everything is said and why?
Everything is done Without knowing why?
Without knowing how
Why?
In everything is believed and why?
Nothing is ever believed
We stagger between false myths and men in bad faith.
James tell me What do you want to say
With your book Finnegan's wake.
What?
Below as well as above
The law of Trismegistus
The Hermes who from Egypt marked the stars on the register.
Pi?
Divided minus by
I love math
Why?
You don't judge my thoughts on genetics.
Why?
We live in the era of divine appearance
Of the deep wound inflicted on the sun of conscience.
Why?
We like everything and everything thins us
And it reduces us to the price glued on the bottle cap.
Why?
We live on a leash of indifference
Of the printouts of stock market graphs and the whims of science.
People from Prague and Dublin
?
Strong smell of wine
The sun sets in Zion
Two minutes more?
Later than in Riom.
Sleep awakening the stillness
The pine, the oak, the fir
Der starke Geruch von Most
I go quickly to the silly Post
And I get lost.
(Thanks to Greta for this text)
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