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Rating: It was a beautiful day. I woke up with the riff of "Hold On" in my head and in the kitchen awaited me four slices of toast with butter/cherry jam, an orange juice, and Eleonora.
She was in a good mood. She had done the shopping early in the morning and prepared breakfast for both of us. She was patiently waiting for me, observing the main political news of a regional newspaper.
I urinated for forty-five seconds and made my triumphant entrance into the kitchen. "Didn't they put the mattress on the bed frame?", she asked with a disarming smile, pointing to some lines that ran across my face from side to side. In silence, I responded to her smile and sat in front of her. I stared at her for a good minute until she noticed me again: "Well? Have you never seen a woman reading the newspaper?". I said no, gave yet another smile, and began to have breakfast.
Last night we made love for at least two hours, but I had never seen her before that. And, to be honest, I had never even seen two hours of love.
I asked her what time she had to go to work and if she had any, then walked towards the shower. I left the house at ten-thirty to head to the station and wait for my sister Francesca returning from a weekend in Rome. While parking, I bumped into a car but didn't give it much importance. I changed spots and headed toward the tracks. I lit a cigarette and checked the time. In the bar behind me, "Venus in Furs" was playing, and incredulously, I thought: "Could it be that bastard is dead?".
The train arrived. Francesca saw me first and started shouting to get my attention, lost among the people. I joined her. We greeted each other and then walked towards the car. She was telling me about her mini-vacation, but I heard nothing. I was thinking about Eleonora in her last night.
Arriving at the car, Francesca, proud of herself, exclaimed "I bought you a CD!" while pulling a gift package from her bag. "Oh, come on! The latest Cat Power, right?" - "Yes!" She knew I had been searching for it without success for ages. I didn't hesitate to unwrap it and insert it into the stereo of my 128.
It went down in one gulp, dethroning the riff of "Hold On" that had been blissfully obsessing my mind.
An album like that is definitely an experience. A series of poignant examinations and melancholic praises of the dark side. Decadent and sparse auto-psychoanalytic ballads of a German-like style chase each other, perhaps finding their ray of light in the monumental "Colors and the Kids", supported solely by the silent accompaniment of a sympathetic and perfectly in tune piano with our Chan Marshall, now small, curled up in a corner, and vulnerable.
Sure, her voice and her words were bitter and painful, but in that song, the possibility, the way out, manifested. A reassuring ray of light offering escape from a place I knew too well and, despite everything, had almost become fond of. It was at that moment that the rupture occurred and it was there that I deliberately let sleep overcome me.
Now, dreaming of a significant moment of the past day, adorning it excessively and beautifying it to the delight of one's desires, is a well-known and usual thing, but the truth is that morning I woke up early, accompanied a dear friend to work, and once home, prepared breakfast by myself, like every morning. But essentially, I missed Eleonora. And there was no Eleonora. So I played the record Francesca brought me from Scotland the day before.
And it is in those days that one fully savors the bitter beauty of "Moon Pix". When you still have to wait, and cradling in your own melancholy can only make you sink upwards, because you've already hit rock bottom.
Tracklist Lyrics Samples and Videos
03 No Sense (04:50)
Do you remember
Do you remember
That night at context
Making up shit
Like we were animals
We made no sense
No sense
We had no sex
Can you see, can you see, can you see
Can you see, can you see, can you see
The moon is so hollow
What's the use
When I can see right through you
What's the use
All the hearts that touch your cheek
How they jump they move they embarrass
All the hearts that touch your cheek
How they jump they move they embarrass
They make no sense, no sense, no sense
No sense, we had no sex
04 Say (03:24)
Learn to say the same thing
Let us hold fast to sayin the same thing
I hope all is well with you
I wish the best for you
When no one is around love will always love you
Learn to say the same thing
What defeats people is a double confession
One time they will confess one thing
And the next they will confess something else
Talk to them they will say
Learn to say the same thing
Let us hold fast to saying the same thing
Never give up no, never give up
If you're looking for something easy
You might as well give it up
Never give up no, never give up
If you're looking for something easy
You might as well give it up
One time they will confess one thing
And the next they will confess the next
Talk to them they will say
Learn to say the same thing
Let us hold fast to saying the same thing
05 Metal Heart (04:02)
Losing the star without a sky
Losing the reasons why
You're losing the calling that you've been faking
And I'm not kidding
It's damned if you don't and it's damned if you do
Be true, 'cause they'll lock you up in a sad, sad zoo
Oh, hidy-hidy-hiding, whatcha trying to prove?
By hidy-hidy-hiding
You're not worth a thing
Sew your fortunes on a string
And hold them up to light
Blue smoke will take
A very violent flight
And you will be changed and everything
And you will be
In a very sad, sad zoo
I once was lost, but now I'm found
Was blind, but now I see you
How selfish of you
To believe in the meaning of all the bad dreaming
Metal heart, you're not hiding
Metal heart, you're not worth a thing
Metal heart, you're not hiding
Metal heart, you're not worth a thing
07 Moonshiner (04:50)
I've been a moonshiner
For seventeen long years
I spent all my money on whisky and beer
I go to some hollow
And set up my holy holy still
If drinking do not kill me
Then I don't know what will
I go to some bar room
And drink with my friends
If women and men would come to follow
To see what I might spend
God bless them handsome men
I wish they was mine
They're breath is as sweet as
The dew on the holy holy vine
You're already in hell, you're already in hell
I wish we could go to hell
When the bottle gets empty
Then life ain't worth the drown
08 You May Know Him (02:46)
Oh Lord heaven is the name that you sent me
Oh Lord heaven is the name that you gave him
And then he came to life and he lived
All others strange because who could of thought
That you meant so much to me
Oh Lord heaven is the name that you gave him
Surprised by the rise in sin you came through over and over again
Lord heaven is the place that you sent him
And you may know him
And you may know him only you
Lord i've never doubted for an instant
If we did what you say
And we do it everyday
If we did what you say
And we do it everyday
Lord if heaven is the place he believed in it's all you can do
Oh Lord heaven is the name that you sent me
Oh Lord surprised by the rise in sin you came through
You came through
11 Peking Saint (02:24)
In peking
There is a son who
Is much greater
Than you want to be
Carnival arms have
A medical wonder
Who would of guessed that
It was not a real body part
In peking
There is a mother
Who is laden
With who she has to be
Carnival arms have
A medical wonder
Who would of guessed that
It was not a real body part
In peking there is someone who
Is who they should exactly be.
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