Midnight and passers-by keep their distance
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Chiara waits with the hazard lights on
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Sara waits to fall, setting the sky ablaze like a meteorite
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And she thinks, you're prettier now as you wither
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You're like the ocean floors that will remain unknown
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Back from your four-year trips
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And she thinks, look, here are all my weak points
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Look at me, I leave blank spaces behind
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Maybe it was about accepting life as a party
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Like she saw in some places in Africa
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Maybe it's about facing what's coming
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Like a gorgeous odyssey nobody will remember
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Despite the steady stream of people without work, of
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Breathing slowly, Chiara celebrates the feeling
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Of spring finally on its way
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And of her train on platform one
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And she thinks, Sara, you're even prettier at night when you're exhausted
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You're still in my inner memory
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You're the interpretation of dreams I can't recall
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And maybe it was about forgetting everything like in a post-war time
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And getting up to dance outside the bars
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Like she saw in some spots of the ex-Yugoslavia
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Maybe it's about making what's next
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With fragile and precious materials, without knowing how to
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But then Sara was thinking of other faces
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Of kids who died in Caserta
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Still about dream interpretation, about background noises
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And the magic of everything being nonsense
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And now from their astronomical observatory
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Chiara told her she's clean, she's quit
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And there's no alternative to the future
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They go back home and once inside they feel amazing
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The noises and voices from the other apartments
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But it's all perfect, it's all perfect
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And maybe it was about accepting life as a party
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Like she saw in some places in Africa
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Maybe it's about facing what's coming
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Like a gorgeous odyssey nobody will remember
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And maybe it was about forgetting everything like in a post-war time
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And getting up to dance outside the bars
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Like she saw in some spots in the ex-Yugoslavia
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Maybe it's about making what's next
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With fragile and precious materials, without knowing how to
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Eternal Father, you're so reactionary
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Who, through the window while landing, sees Venice from above
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You saw theirs wasn't such a different love after all