Francesco De Gregori
La donna cannone

THE REVIEW

At the end of this review, you will find a link. Please open it immediately and read everything with the musical background. I don't ask you, but I advise you to arm yourself with a tissue; there is and should be no shame in tears. I have cried and cry when I listen to this song.

The Donna Cannone speaks of suicide, yes, it is so...

She Loves Him, this impossible love, and rather than being deprived of it, she prefers death "Without going through the station, the last train will take."

The Donna Cannone speaks of feelings...

"In the face of the malicious and proud, my name will shine," and everyone will know that I too have a heart and am not just a sideshow "an applause from the paying audience will highlight it."

The Donna Cannone speaks of Farewell...

"But we will fly in heaven in flesh and bone we will never return"

The Donna Cannone aspires to an elegant and poetic end...

"And without hunger and without thirst... and without wings and without a net, we will fly away..."

And then she kills herself...

"Thus the Donna Cannone, that great mystery, flew... all alone towards a sky, walked a deep black sky"

What to say... nothing "Without saying words, I will carry you in my heart"

The piano at the end, those few final notes touch my heart, they wrench and touch my heart like nothing else... they really touch my heart.

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