Princesa
Fabrizio De André| La versione inglese di Dennis Criteser [2014] | |
| la campagna il cielo il sentiero la scuola la chiesa la vergogna la gonna lo smalto lo specchio il rossetto la paura la strada la modellatrice la vertigine l'incantesimo la magia le macchine la polizia la stanchezza la dignità il fidanzato lo sgherro il gransignore lo sporcaccione la sfortuna la sbronza le botte le carezze il fallimento lo schifo la bellezza vivere | PRINCESS I am the ewe, I am the cow, because one wants to play at being animals. I am the female, open shirt, small tits to suck. Under the eyelashes of these trees in the light and shade where I was born, because the horizon before the sky, I was the look in my mother’s eyes. “Why is little Fernando like a daughter? He brings me coffee and tapioca in bed, and to remind him that he was born male will be instinct, will be life.” And me, in front of the big mirror - I screen my eyes with my fingers to imagine for myself, between my legs, a little twat. In the half slumber of a bus I leave my peasant infancy, I run to the spell of desires, I go to adjust my fortune. In the kitchen of the boarding house I mix dreams with hormones. When dawn comes there will be magic, there will be miraculous breasts. Because Fernanda is really a daughter, like a girl she wants to make love. But little Fernando resists and vomits and writhes in agony. And then the scalpel for breasts and hips, in a whirl of anesthesia, until my body looks like me along the seafront of Bahia. Tender smile of greenleaf, from her hair I withdraw my fingers when the cars point their headlights on the stage of my life where, amidst traffic jams of desires, at my buttocks a cock is hanging. Into my meat, between my lips, one man slides, the other surrenders. Because little Fernando died in my bosom, Fernanda is a silk doll. They are branches of a single star that blasts out light, Princess by name. To a lawyer in Milan Princess now gives her heart, and a customary stroll in the shadow of a balcony. the countryside the sky the path the school the church the shame the skirt the nail polish the mirror the lipstick the fear the street the fashion model the dizziness the charm the magic the cars the police the tiredness the dignity the fiancé the thug the elder gentleman the lecher the misfortune the bender the blows the caresses the failure the disgust the beauty living ! |
