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Rating: The world of Asile is made of sounds. First and foremost.
The world of Asile is a room with thin walls, seemingly impenetrable. But in the end, you just need to listen closely to hear everything inside. Among the lush leaves of an untouched nature, 16 small pearls stand tall like sequoias, 14 poems, 14 thoughts. And in the middle of the room she sits, Elisa, with her usual shy gaze, a faint smile, and sweet eyes. And she is so at ease. And she moves as only in her natural habitat she can. And she proudly shows us her thousand metamorphoses. From a little local Bjork in Chameleon, to a dancing yogini in Happiness Is Home. Silently screaming her need for order (Just Some Order), revealing her thoughts (Asile's World), dancing among the branches of her trees without asking for anything else (Creature), watching birds cry and painting melancholic faces on the moon (Come Speak To Me).
Elisa's most difficult album, perhaps the most beautiful, certainly the least known. With a fine production (among others, Rustici and Howie B), Elisa is already great on her second album. Ten.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Gift (04:20)
Na na na na na… (in the other room)
In the other room, I’m the other girl
I’m another one of your children
it’s this other face, this other name
I’m the other girl (want to be in the other room)
when you’re calling me, when you’re calling me
Your gift
receiving through this
body of mine
is alive, so alive
Your gift
receiving through this
body of mine
is alive, so alive
I am bleeding joy, still peaceful
I am waiting for patience
I live something beautiful
just thinking not too fast
I’m still here (want to be in the other room)
When you’re calling me, when you’re calling me
Your gift
receiving through this
body of mine
is alive, so alive
Your gift
receiving through this
body of mine
is alive, so alive
my secrets are now
things I can touch
this is complicity
I’m going to embrace
this man with no face…just fly
Your gift
receiving through this
body of mine
is alive, so alive
Your gift
shining through this
body of mine
is alive, so alive
Your gift is giving, as receiving...
02 Chameleon (04:14)
It is just raining
it is just micro macro mood
it is just no words to say
it is just being in love
it is just fragility
it’s so unknown, aha, aha…
it’s that I shouldn’t talk no more
I shouldn’t talk no more
I hold a chameleon in my heart
disastrous and divine
and I’m never alone and he is my guide
and I’m never alone and he is my guide
and he is my guide
it’s just ridiculous
it is just how much I ignore
it is just they are talking to me
it’s that I want to understand
it is just the way it works
it is just too many chains sometimes
it’s that I should stop speaking now
I should stop speaking now
I hold a chameleon in my heart
disastrous and divine
and I’m never alone and he is my guide
and I’m never alone and he is my guide
I hold a chameleon in my heart
disastrous and divine
and I’m never alone and he is my guide
and I’m never alone and he is my guide
I hold a chameleon in my heart
disastrous and divine
and I’m never alone and he is my guide
and I’m never alone and he is my guide
04 Asile's World (03:50)
Tic tac
Tic tac
Run up those stairs
Cause someone's waiting
You'd better run up those stairs
Somebody's waiting
You're so tired after you've worked
But you know you can miss things
It's so powerful and it will take
Troubles out of your head
It's so powerful and it will take
Troubles out of your head
You're rushing
This is the best lover
Music is the best lover
It's the best lover, the best lover
You're thinking in a strange way
You're so afraid of problems
You're thinking in a strange way
You're so afraid of problems
You're afraid of problems
You're so scared about the ground
And what's so scared about the ground
Tic tac
Tic tac
You run up those stairs
Somebody's waiting
You'd better run up those stairs
Somebody's waiting
You're so tired after you've worked
But you know you can miss things
You're so tired after you've worked
But you know you can miss things
12 Tic Tac (04:22)
Tic tac…
run up those stairs
‘cause someone’s waiting
you'd better run up those stairs
somebody's waiting
you're so tired after you've worked
but you know you can't miss this
it's so powerful
and it’ll take the trouble out of your head
it's so powerful
and it’ll take the trouble out of your head
you're ashamed this is the best lover
Music’s the best lover
it is the best lover, the best lover
you're thinking in a strange way
you're so afraid of crawling
you're thinking in a strange way
you're so afraid of crawling
you're afraid of crawling
you're afraid of crawling
you're afraid of crawling
you're afraid of crawling
hey what's so scary about the ground
and what's so scary about the ground
and what's so scary about the ground
and what's so scary about the ground
tic tac…
you run up those stairs
somebody's waiting
you'd better run up those stairs
‘cause somebody's waiting
you're so tired after you've worked
but you know you can't miss this
and you're so tired after you've worked
but you know you can't miss this
it's so powerful
and it’ll take the trouble out of your head
so powerful
and it’ll take the trouble out of your head
you're ashamed this is the best lover
Music’s the best lover
Music’s the best lover
Music’s the best lover
Music’s the best lover
Music’s the best lover
afraid of crawling
you’re afraid of crawling
still afraid of crawling
you’re afraid of crawling
tell me what's so scary about the ground
tell me what's so scary about the ground
what's so scary about the ground
and what's so scary about the ground
what's so scary about the ground
and what's so scary about the ground
what's so scary about the ground
and what's so scary about the ground
tic tac…
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