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Comme une Cigarette

Comme une Cigarette – Marco Valdo M.I. – 2010
Cycle du Cahier ligné – 91

Comme une Cigarette est la nonante et unième chanson du Cycle du Cahier ligné, constitué d'éléments tirés du Quaderno a Cancelli de Carlo Levi.

Depuis la fin des hostilités, lorsqu'en 1918, après Caporetto, Verdun, la Somme, l'Yzer et autres Piaves, les belligérants s'étaient dit avant de rentrer chez eux – lucides – « À la prochaine ! », est né le divin enfant : le célèbrissime « Soldat Inconnu ». Il n'y a pas plus connu que le soldat inconnu. Un soldat créé tout exprès pour la cause patriotique, un soldat choisi au hasard dans un gigantesque tas de cadavres...

Et , commente Lucien l'âne qui avait vu la guerre de Troie, vu le nombre de soldats inconnus accumulés en ce temps-là, il a dû y en avoir des veuves du soldat inconnu.

Passons, dit Marco Valdo M.I. en le coupant sèchement, l'heure... (Continues)
Sans tambour, ni trompette
(Continues)
Contributed by Marco Valdo M.I. 2010/2/22 - 21:45
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Il mercenario di Lucera

Il mercenario di Lucera
Grazie Riccardo. Credo che questo sito sia interessante e, comunque, ricco di spunti per pensare. Per quello che serve, credo di poter dire che il confronto è veramente l'anima del vivere civile. Le "parti" esistono da sempre e, riconosciamocelo, a volte c'è anche un po' di gusto nel mettersi da una parte o dall'altra. Qualunque essa sia. Bianchi e Neri,Guelfi e Ghibellini, Repubblicani e Monarchici sono stati "gruppi" che, indubbiamente, esprimevano loro idee; ma ho qualche dubbio che si siano mai messi a discutere su quelle. Credo di poter essere definito (e mi ci definiscono)come un "Cantautore di destra". Alcuni ragazzi di "destra", però, mi definirono di "sinistra" per la mia canzone "Un ragazzo". A questo proposito invito chiunque a riascoltarsi la canzone di Gaber "Destra e sinistra". Questo non toglie che tra i miei amici ne abbia diversi che si definiscono "di sinistra". E non so,... (Continues)
Leo Valeriano 2010/2/22 - 16:34
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Rubber Bullets

Rubber Bullets
[1971]
Album “This Is Free Belfast! – Irish Rebel Songs from the Six Counties”, Folkways Records
Sull’aria della popolare scozzese “Football Crazy”
Testo trovato su The Balladeers

One of the riot control weapons devised by the British Army to maintain the military occupation of Ulster is the rubber bullet. Presumably, this more "humane" tool of warfare will demonstrate the "kindliness" of the authorities in the Six Counties, although its success in achieving that objective has been nil.

Una delle armi di controllo per le proteste escogitate dall'Esercito inglese per mantenere l'occupazione militare dell'Ulster sono i proiettili di plastica. Presumibilmente, questo strumento di guerra più "umano" dimostrerà la "gentilezza"" delle autorità nei Sei Paesi, sebbene il suo successo nel raggiungere quell'obbiettivo sia stato nullo.
(Nota dal libretto che accompagna il disco)
Rubber bullets for the ladies,
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/22 - 15:40
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It's A Man's Life In The Army

It's A Man's Life In The Army
[1971]
Album “This Is Free Belfast! – Irish Rebel Songs from the Six Counties”, Folkways Records
Sull’aria di “The Rocks O' Bawn”
When I was five my mother died,
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/22 - 15:16
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Cry Murder!

Cry Murder!
[1971]
Album “This Is Free Belfast! – Irish Rebel Songs from the Six Counties”, Folkways Records
Scritta da Barney McIlvogue

To the memory of Patrick Rooney, aged nine, killed by a stray bullet, Divis Street, Belfast, during the fighting on the night of 14th August, 1969.
On that night, Northern Ireland's 90% Protestant police force, the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), rioted throughout the Catholic ghettoes of Belfast. They savagely attacked innocent people and drove through the streets indiscriminately firing their weapons. One result of this demonstration of the RUC's fascist and racist interpretation of law and order was the murder of little Patrick Rooney while he lay in his bed.
One wonders if Patrick's father could view his little boy's body with part of his head blown off, the room awash with Patrick's blood, and then dismiss this horror from his mind with a "manly" shrug of... (Continues)
The street lamp light is fading now,
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/22 - 14:55
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The Leaving Of Belfast

The Leaving Of Belfast
[1977]
Album “England's Vietnam - Irish Songs of Resistance”, Folkways Records
Scritta da Barney McIlvogue

An immigration ballad composed in 1970 in the early days of the struggle when CS gas [il terribile gas lacrimogeno testato in Vietnam e Irlanda ed usato ancora ai giorni nostri… chi era a Genova nel 2001 ne sa qualcosa] and RUC [Royal Ulster Constabulary, la polizia nord-irlandese, altro nemico dei repubblicani] brutality made many a man despair of trying to raise a family in such conditions. Was the price worth it and could things ever really be changed? Fortunately many did stay to fight for a better life for their kids.
I lived my life in Belfast town, and oft times I've asked why
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/22 - 14:28
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Bella Ciao

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Bella Ciao
Da Sanremo 2010 [!!!]: Simone Cristicchi e il Coro dei Minatori di Santa Fiora interpretano "Bella Ciao"



Simone Cristicchi e il coro dei Minatori di Santa Fiora cantano "Bella ciao" al DopoFestival YouDem (3° puntata - 18 febbraio 2010).
gianfranco ginestri, di bologna 2010/2/22 - 13:55
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The Freedom Fighter (Joe McCann)

The Freedom Fighter (Joe McCann)
[1977]
Album “England's Vietnam - Irish Songs of Resistance”, Folkways Records
Scritta da Barney McIlvogue

The small back street ghettoes of Belfast have been the setting for so many of the battles in the present struggle. They have suffered most of the direct oppression of British imperialism and in return have produced many of the leaders and sadly but inevitably the martyrs who have paid with their lives to see this country free. People who will be remembered when the names of the generals and the politicians have long been forgotten, this is a song about them.
(Nota dal libretto che accompagna il disco)

Canzone – che richiama in qualche modo I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night di Alfred Hayes - dedicata al militante repubblicano nord-irlandese e membro dell’IRA Joe McCann, ucciso dagli inglesi nel 1972. Quando fu colpito – alla schiena – era disarmato.

Joe McCann era già passato... (Continues)
From the back streets of the city, from the darkness came a man
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/22 - 13:50
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The Falls Road Taximan

The Falls Road Taximan
[1977]
Album “England's Vietnam - Irish Songs of Resistance”, Folkways Records

Scritta da Barney McIlvogue

The Peoples' Taxis first appeared on the Falls Road, Belfast, when the Corporation withdrew public transport from routes through Republican areas where a riot or a gun battle was a daily occurrence. The gap was quickly filled by a group of local taxi men. At lOp per person it must be the cheapest adventure trip in Western Europe. This song is dedicated to Tony, one of our political prisoners in Long Kesh.
(Nota dal libretto che accompagna il disco)

Falls Road è il nome di una delle strade principali di Belfast, quella che divide i quartieri cattolici da quelli protestanti di Shankill Road. Durante il conflitto contro gli occupanti inglesi e la guerra civile tra le due comunità contrapposte il servizio di trasporto pubblico fu interrotto per motivi di sicurezza in tutte le aree dove... (Continues)
As I roved out through Belfast town, around by Castle Street,
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/22 - 13:17
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The Internee

The Internee
[1977]
Album “England's Vietnam - Irish Songs of Resistance”, Folkways Records

Scritta da Barney McIlvogue

The song tells of the anguish of the internee's wife, as she watches her husband being dragged from their bed and brought to Long Kesh, there to be held in a barbed wire cage without charge or trial for an indefinite period. As she watches the politicians selling out she comes to the conclusion that it will take more than words to end the repression of a State guilty of such inhuman behaviour. Now, in May 1975 despite Merlyn Rees' pathetic lies [Lord Merlyn-Rees, labourista, segretario di Stato per il Nord Irlanda tra il 1974 e il 1976, ndr] over 300 Republicans are in Long Kesh.
(Nota dal libretto che accompagna il disco)
It was four o'clock in the morning when they dragged him from his bed,
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/22 - 12:44
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England’s Vietnam

England’s Vietnam
[1977]
Album “England's Vietnam - Irish Songs of Resistance”, Folkways Records
Scritta da Brian Whoriskey

“The people of Vietnam fought for 30 years before achieving their independence. The path to freedom may be long and hard but for England the simple message is that the days of the colonists are over, and, for all her military might, she cannot forever deny the Irish people their freedom”
(Nota dal libretto che accompagna il disco)
Well, good morning, friends, it's good to be back in the good old U.S.A.
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/22 - 11:47
Song Itineraries: Conflicts in Ireland
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Friedenspanzer

Friedenspanzer
una canzone stupenda musicalmente e forse testualmente un pò banale, ma sempre meravigliosa...

die arzte ...simply the best...
jbs 2010/2/22 - 03:48
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Audience Of One

Audience Of One
[2008]

Lyrics & Music by Tim McIlrath
Album: Appeal to Reason

"Audience of One" is the second single from their 2008 album Appeal to Reason. Hitting number four on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart, it is Rise Against's third-highest charting single, behind the previous single from Appeal to Reason, "Re-Education (Through Labor)", which peaked at number three and the third single "Savior". In mid-October 2008, the L.A. radio station KROQ began playing "Audience of One." Its video was announced to be shot with director Brett Simon on December 9. On January 15, the video for "Audience of One" premiered on MySpace. The single was released on CD and 7" vinyl on March 3, 2009 in the UK. The song is also a downloadable song in Guitar Hero World Tour.
"Audience Of One" is featured with a customized Rise Against Theme in Tap Tap Revenge 2 for the iPhone and iPod Touch. It is featured... (Continues)
I can still remember - the words and what they meant
(Continues)
Contributed by giorgio 2010/2/21 - 21:33
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È lei

È lei
(2010)

Album: "Le vie del rock sono infinite"
È lei che proprio in questo istante sta nascendo
(Continues)
2010/2/21 - 12:06
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Pick Up The Bones

Pick Up The Bones
[2000]
Album: Brutal Planet
Collecting pieces of my family in an old pillow case
(Continues)
Contributed by giorgio 2010/2/21 - 11:15
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Voci sospese

Voci sospese
Dall'album "Iguana Cafè" del 2005
Voci sospese
(Continues)
Contributed by Renato Stecca 2010/2/21 - 10:27
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Put Out The Fire

Put Out The Fire
[1982]
Album: Hot Space

"Put Out the Fire" is an anti-firearm song written by Brian May, with lead vocals by Freddie Mercury. May recorded its guitar solo under the influence of alcohol (after many unsuccessful attempts). Though never released as a single, "Put Out the Fire", the album's most 'traditional' Queen song, later appeared on the Queen Rocks compilation in 1997. A new video was also produced for the accompanying video compilation, featuring a live performance of the song intercut with footage of fire and explosions.
They called him a hero
(Continues)
Contributed by giorgio 2010/2/21 - 09:31
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Notte lituana

Notte lituana
C’era una volta la luna
(Continues)
Contributed by Egon 2010/2/21 - 03:09
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Don't Say

Don't Say
[2006]
Album "Dubfellas"
Don’t say me bye friend
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/21 - 00:21
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Muro 'e mare

Muro 'e mare
[2006]
Album "Dubfellas"

"Simme tutte quante clandestine..."
Simme 'nu punte nire dinte a 'stu cielo d'acque
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/21 - 00:19
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Bum Bum

Bum Bum
[2008]
Album "Vulgus"

Una "spoken-song in dub" affidata al grande drammaturgo, attore e scrittore napoletano Peppe Lanzetta.
… Ma addo’ sta’ ‘a felicità
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/21 - 00:01

Vox Media

Vox Media
Vox Media

Vox Media – Marco Valdo M.I. – 2010
Cycle du Cahier ligné – 90

Vox Media est la nonantième chanson du Cycle du Cahier ligné, constitué d'éléments tirés du Quaderno a Cancelli de Carlo Levi.

Vox Media, dit Lucien l'âne, que veux-tu dire par là ? Entends-tu signifier une voix , car vox si je me souviens bien veut dire voix en latin, donc, une voix moyenne, une voix du milieu ou une voix dont le nom serait Media...

Ce serait plutôt dans ce sens qu'il faut aller, mon ami Lucien l'âne. Media est une sorte de nom international qui désigne les moyens de diffusion – et non de communication comme certains essayent de le faire croire. On diffuse, un point, c'est tout. Juste un mot à ce sujet : pour qu'il y ait communication, il faut qu'il y ait une voie à double sens, un aller-retour, une expression et une réponse et de surcroît entre deux parties égales. On est loin du fonctionnement... (Continues)
Il y a bien longtemps
(Continues)
Contributed by Marco Valdo M.I. 2010/2/20 - 22:55
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Cuando los ángeles lloran

Cuando los ángeles lloran
QUANDO GLI ANGELI PIANGONO
(Continues)
Contributed by Maria Pia 2010/2/20 - 19:37
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Smisurata preghiera

Smisurata preghiera
Makroll su Gabbieri a Kabul in s'Afganistan.

Arrogu liau de s'arrumanzu de Àlvaro Mutis
"Unu bellu Mòrriri" de su 1989 e
torrau a prentai po is: Editzionis Einaudi,
Cannaca po is busciacas, 1992 e 1997, Turinu.

Po ndi sciri de prus apitzus de Àlvaro Mutis cracai innoi e brintai in sa poisia de cust’òmini mannu.
Makroll, su Gabbieri, arremonat a sa pàgini 131 de su lìbburu.
(Continues)
2010/2/20 - 18:33
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La Cantagranda

La Cantagranda
Chanson italienne – La Cantagranda – Ivan Della Mea – 2000

L'insertion de « Grandchant » dans les CCG est due essentiellement à deux strophes au caractère clairement antimilitariste (et, dans une moindre mesure, aussi à la présence dans cette très longue chanson – dix neuf minutes et trois secondes – d'une allusion à la mort de Giuseppe Pinelli (Ces strophes sont en gras). Pour le reste, à propos de ces très vaste chanson (dont le texte est ins&éré pour la première fois sur le net) je reprends un article publié le 22 juillet 2005.

Ivan Della Mea est des mêmes années que Guccini et que De André. Lui aussi de 1940, année de guerre; il est né un seize octobre, curieusement le même jour que ma mère (qui il y a quelques jours, l'a écouté pour la première fois de sa vie...) On me dit qu'il n'est pas très bien et qu'il n'a pas seulement mal à sa tocante; il serait cependant trop facile d'accrocher... (Continues)
GRANDCHANT
(Continues)
Contributed by Marco Valdo M.I. 2010/2/20 - 16:40
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My Country

My Country
[1985]
Album "No Rest for the Wicked"
Tell all the people who believe what they read in the press
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/20 - 11:56
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51st State

51st State
[1986]
Album "The Ghost of Cain"
Look out of your windows, watch the skies
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/20 - 11:43
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Better Than Them

Better Than Them
[1985]
Album "No Rest for the Wicked"
This is our town, this is Friday night
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/20 - 11:37
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The Power Is Yours

The Power Is Yours
[1986]
Album "Neither Washington Nor Moscow"
Let's get this situation sorted out!
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/20 - 11:20
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Take No Heroes

Take No Heroes
[1986]
Album "Neither Washington Nor Moscow"
Somebody told me today
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/20 - 11:14
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Kick Over The Statues

Kick Over The Statues
[1986]
Album "Neither Washington Nor Moscow"
At the end of an era
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/20 - 11:05
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It Can Be Done

It Can Be Done
[1986]
Album "Neither Washington Nor Moscow"
Russia sparked the fires in 1917
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/20 - 11:00
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D.I.Y.

D.I.Y.
[2005]
Album "Restless Soul"
Warmongers, kill yourselves
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/20 - 10:20
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Perfect Sense

Perfect Sense
Riguardo al testo, la voce di HAL non è presente sulla registrazione finale, poiché Stanley Kubrick non diede a Waters il permesso di usarla.

Se pensate bene, tempo prima (nel 1970 circa, i Pink Floyd ancora "interi"), Waters e compagni non permisero a Stanley Kubrick di usare le musiche di Atom Heart Mother per Arancia Meccanica... Che Kubrick si sia arrabbiato con Waters? Ma dopo tutto, era una musica troppo solenne per un film così violento...
Luca 2010/2/19 - 14:29
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Green Grow The Rushes

Green Grow The Rushes
[1985]
Album "Fables of the Reconstruction"

Una canzone che con Flowers of Guatemala e Welcome To The Occupation costituisce una sorta di trilogia sulla politica statunitense verso i paesi del centro e sud America negli anni 80, in particolare rispetto alla questione dell'immigrazione, solo apparentemente contrastata con la forza (e con grande spargimento di sangue) ma tollerata, quando non incentivata, a seconda delle esigenze del mercato, che sempre predilige la manodopera a basso costo ("some surplus, cheaper hands") - in maggioranza clandestini ("Pay for your freedom, find another gate") sfruttati, ricattati, minacciati - per massimizzare i propri profitti ("The amber waves of gain")...

Il titolo si riferisce probabilmente alla canzone popolare religiosa di origine ebraica "Green Grow The Rushes, Ho", un brano molto noto nel mondo anglofono. Alcune fonti ritengono che gli immigrati... (Continues)
The wheelbarrow's fallen
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/19 - 13:07
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I Want to Be President

I Want to Be President
[2004]
We got arms
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/19 - 11:58
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Free World

Free World
[1989]
Album "Kite"

Una canzone dedicata alla vita della gente comune in Inghilterra negli anni del thatcherismo...
I thought of you when they closed down the school
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/19 - 11:26
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I cento passi

I cento passi
Luridi corrotti e laidi corruttori? Sciacalli di merda che fanno i soldi sulle disgrazie e sulla pelle della gente? Mafiosi e collusi con le mafie assassine? Politici ed amministratori inetti, ladri e strapagati?
Ma no, ma no, ma suvvìa!, Ma dai, ma va là, ma va là!!!
Sono soltanto dei "birbantelli!!!

Bu-bu-set-tete!!!
Alessandro 2010/2/19 - 10:22
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San Quentin

San Quentin
"Nonno" Cash ci manca ogni giorno... inarrivabile. Questa è pura poesia.
Alberto 2010/2/18 - 18:58
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Sólo le pido a Dios

Sólo le pido a Dios
La nuova guerra delle Falkland
La posta in gioco è il petrolio

Una società britannica inizia le ricerche di altri giacimenti e il governo argentino limita la navigazione verso le isole

di Omero Ciai, da La Repubblica

Sott'acqua, intorno all'arcipelago delle Falkland/Malvinas, ci sarebbero, secondo uno studio della Geological Society of London, 60 miliardi di barili di greggio. Un tesoro difficile da sottrarre all'Oceano ma che, visti i costi crescenti del petrolio, diventa ogni giorno più appetitoso. Tant'è vero che una impresa britannica, Desire Petroleum, ha annunciato l'avvio delle ricerche nell'area a nord delle isole dove spera di estrarre nei prossimi anni fino a 3 miliardi di barili di oro nero. L'interesse di Desire e di altre aziende del Regno Unito a caccia di idrocarburi per far girare il mondo nei prossimi decenni ha riaperto in Argentina la ferita della contesa sulla Falkland/Malvinas... (Continues)
Alessandro 2010/2/18 - 14:46
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Old England

Old England
[1985]
Album "This Is the Sea"

"Old England" is a criticism of Thatcherism, blaming Margaret Thatcher's economic policies for what The Waterboys perceived to be an increase in desperation amongst the young and poor in the England of that time, and a rise in drug addiction, specifically to heroin. The refrain, Old England is dying is a quote from James Joyce, and the lines You're asking what makes me sigh now / What it is makes me shudder so are from W.B. Yeats' poem, Mad as the Mist and Snow.
(en.wikipedia)
Man looks up on a yellow sky
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/18 - 14:22
Song Itineraries: Miss Maggie Thatcher
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Pax Americana

Pax Americana
[2004]
Album "The Revolution of Species"

Testo trovato su archive.org
Bloody confrontations from
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/18 - 13:44




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