It seems that talking about Zucchero on Debaser is like talking about the devil. In my opinion, you’ve watched too much TV and listened to too much RDS. Zucchero has composed so many beautiful things, and it’s enough to think that collaborations like those with Sting didn’t just fall from the sky or that he filled their pockets with money. So why then would everyone have duetted with Clapton, Davis, and Van Morrison? Let me bring you the beautiful lyrics of Fornaciari.
One step from Jerusalem
and only a mile from the moon
under a sky of millions of stars
I have my heart lost on a distant planet
that spins around and falls down with arches of sadness
I die for you
I die for you!
And if my kingdom turns to sand
and falls to the bottom of the sea:
I die for you
I die for you!
And from the dark deep valleys
ancient songs of sadness
but every step I thought of you
every step just for you
for every star a grain of sand
the remnants of a dry sea
tell me how much longer, how much more!
There’s a city in the desert and it rests
the vanity of an ancient king
but the city rests in pieces
where the wind screams at the vulture
what man has done
with ambition is all this
I will imprison my life
if you are the bride for another
let my enemies be free,
I fall and I am here,
I die for you
I die for you!
And just like never,
so alone like never before!
With all my tomorrows
what am I here for,
I am nothing like this,
there are no victories
in our stories, without love!
One step from Jerusalem
and only a mile from the moon
under a sky of millions of stars
I have my heart lost on a distant planet
that spins around and falls down
with arches of sadness
I die for you
I die for you!
And even if you have the keys
and destroy what I have
every prison in dust
I no longer have enemies
my kingdoms of sand
that go to the bottom of the sea,
I die for you
I die for you!