Tribute to Leonard Cohen: Ballata.

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Tribute to Leonard Cohen: Ballata.

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This song has been written by Doctor Franco Morro Bolzoni, writer and poet, in tribute to Leonard Cohen

I don’ t cry for you

I don’ t cry for you
I think by images
And tears come from un unknown present
Which no one remembers any longer

I eat and I drink
At the bar counter
Without sitting down
And with no rush
Like waiting someone I don’t care about
To go away with

I eat standing on my feet
At the bar counter
Like waiting an unsolved fear

That’s the reason why
there’s no point in hurrying up

But I don’t cry for you
You will not
You will never have
Any satisfaction from me

I think by images
I think by images
And I live in a un unknown present

Away from myself
I eat and I drink
and outside I hear
The whistle of the wind
That will blow your hat away when you’ll come

I will laugh, than
I will be tired
Of waiting for you so long
And together we will go away
And together we will lose ourselves
though you are my enemy

I won’t be afraid to look at you
falling silently in my eyes
The fear of Fate

Falling silently in my eyes
The fear of Death

So I won’t cry for you

And I won’t look back
And I won’t give you back any pain

I won’t hand you back any grief

(Franco Morro Bolzoni)
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