20 Mila Leghe Lyrics - Vitamia - Gianmaria Testa

The first was the Cape of Good Hope 

closed by law and special decree 

so that the Pacific waves would quit 

bastardizing that other sea. 

Next it was the turn of Panama and Suez, 

and then of the Bosporus and Gibraltar: 

every last wave demanded 

respect for its sovereign independence. 

No more exchanges of water and fish, 

no more round-the-world trips in sailing ships 

all canals were closed 

to the passage of foreign waves. 

Thus for a time the waters of all 

the planet's seas became calm again, 

but before long it began again: a wave said 

that it was time to end it all. 

And so it happened that one day in our local sea 

the Ionian demanded to be alone, 

and so did the Tyrrhenian and the Sicilian Strait 

and the Adriatic forthwith. 

In short, 'let no one mix with anyone else' 

thundered the waters of the shallows; 

'let each remain anchored in place 

and bathe only the sands of her birth.' 

It seemed to be over but it was only the beginning, 

and it was truly ugly to see 

in what once was a vast expanse 

the gashes of trenches rending the sea. 

It was only the beginning, as we said, 

because now the secessionist fever 

was sickening every single shore, 

and nothing and no one managed to say 'enough'. 

And thus from Trieste to the tip of Apulia 

from Sicily to the Italian Riviera 

every last tiny creek demanded 

independence and not in name only. 

But the matter went shabby 

when they seized each other drop by drop 

and, each eyeing her neighbor, said 

'go away or I'll break your face'. 

The sea was soon an assemblage of dewdrops 

of no use to fish or any creature. 

tuna, anchovies, and swordfish died, 

deep-sea vessels stayed on dry land. 

And then one day or (I'm not sure) one night 

something even stranger happened 

do you know the formula H2O? 

Yes, the one for water that we all know. 

Well, hydrogen took exception 

and claimed to have a majority 

and thus the sovereign right 

to pursue now-hallowed independence. 

A kind of wind blew, an infinite gust, 

and the water of the seas vaporized into the sky. 

there remained a desert of salt and granite, 

but dark and deep, blacker than black.