Scalo a Grado

Franco Battiato

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	Traduzione inglese / English translation / Traduction anglaise...
SCALO A GRADO	Stopover in Grado [1]
Ho fatto scalo a Grado, La domenica di Pasqua. Gente per le strade correva andando a messa.	I made a stopover in Grado on Easter's Sunday People on the streets were running for the Mass
L’aria carica d’incenso, Alle pareti le stazioni del Calvario. Gente fintamente assorta Che aspettava la redenzione dei peccati.	The air thick with incense At the walls the Stations of the Cross People faking rapture Waiting for redemption from their sins
Agnus dei Qui tollis peccata mundi Miserere, dona eis requiem. Il mio stile è vecchio, come la casa di Tiziano a Pieve di Cadore. Nel mio sangue non c’è acqua, Ma fiele che ti potrà guarire.	Agnus dei, Qui tollis peccata mundi Dona eis requiem, Dona eis requiem [2] My style is as old As Titian's house in Pieve di Cadore In my blood there is no water But gall, with the power to heal you
Ci si illumina d’immenso, Mostrando un poco la lingua al prete che dà l’ostia, Ci si sente in paradiso Cantando dei salmi un poco stonati.	One lightens with immensity Showing a bit the tongue to the priest giving the Host, One feels in paradise Singing psalms a bit out of tune
Agnus dei Qui tollis peccata mundi Miserere, dona eis requiem.	Agnus dei, Qui tollis peccata mundi Dona eis requiem, Dona eis requiem

	[1] Grado is small town and touristic port in the north east of Italy. Pieve di Cadore is an even smaller mountain town where Titian was born in 1488- his (possibly non-authentic) birthplace still stands, close to the central square. [2] In latin: "Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, have mercy, grant them rest". The "grant them rest" indicates that this is not the normal Mass version of the Agnus Dei, but the one for the Requiem Mass.

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