Ricordati di vivere (il primo battito)

Let’s see what tonight has in store
It started with a wish
To live the things that are coming
Connected with the breath and without too much stress

Taking cues from those who know
From those who don’t talk, but act
Moving is a good method
To keep balanced on a wire
Redefining myself a bit like the sky above my head
The rules of anarchy

And that magical moment after the preparations
When the boat hits the sea and you feel alive

With only the horizon as a limit
Remember to live
And a witness, complicit and invisible
Remember to live

And an ancient smile as a guide
Remember to live, oh
Remember to live

A photograph told me
That hung on the wall in my grandma’s house
Of a young man who never got the chance to age
And was never forgotten

In that old black and white photo
With eyes about to smile
It seemed to say right to me
Loré, remember to live

Even if you only had a moment left
Remember to live
If you had only dust in your pockets
Remember to live
If inside your heart you had just a heartbeat
Remember to live, oh
Remember to live

Those who fill the space where they live
With things that don’t take up space and breathe
The strong voice ready to give itself as a gift
And then the stories and words that intertwine
With the silences of the world

And they make like a net
The fish that have no eyelids
And that aren’t thirsty
They capture moments like solid objects
The monsters and the mermaids, the tires of cars

And then the friends who make life memorable
That gets passed on to others like a contagion
And then it never fades even if you die

It always circulates through other hearts

Even if you only had a moment left
Remember to live
If you had only dust in your pockets
Remember to live
Like it’s always the first beat
Remember to live, oh
Remember to live

The first beat
The first beat, the first beat
The first beat, the first beat
The first beat, the first beat