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Per i Live Tropical Fish le parole sono un fondamento indissolubile rispetto alla trama intrecciata dalla melodia e dagli arrangiamenti. Ogni brano è una storia, ogni traccia ha più chiavi di lettura, ogni testo apre “microcosmi” che si dipanano nei pochi minuti di durata. Le storie narrate nelle nostre canzoni sono pezzi della nostra vita, dei nostri mondi, sono le nostre emozioni, gli entusiasmi, le paure, le speranze, i ricordi.
Peace Of Mind
(De Fazio, Fernè, Pignanelli, Poli, Zagnoli, Jordan)
Searching for answers we never seem to find
Questions returning, leaving us blind
And so uncertain, with nowhere to hide
The journey unfolding one step at a time
If we try, we will find
We can be, oh so free
When we let go, We will grow
Then we'll find peace of mind
Hoping for something that never seems to be
Not understanding that we are free
To choose our future, when we decide
To trust completely what lies deep inside
If we try, we will find
We can be, oh so free
We can fly higher
We can find peace of mind
If we try
We can find peace of mind
If we try
We can find peace of mind
If we try
Complete Me
(De Fazio, Fernè, Pignanelli, Poli, Zagnoli, Crockett)
What I want to know is how can we flow
What I want to see is how can we be
All that I can ask is can we make it last
Cause I think that we click and I really wanna make it big
Make me wanna holla, make me wanna scream
That you don't wanna realize this dream
You say it's too soon that we just met
And you think that it's not our time yet
I just want you, I just need you, I just wanna have you
Complete me, come with me, complete me
How can I make you say that we'll be ok
If I touch your hand can I make you understand
If a seed is sown can we make it grow
Cause you are my shining star and together we can go far
Make me wanna holla, make me wanna scream
That you don't wanna realize this dream
I know it's scary and you're afraid to fall
Just have a little faith that's all
I just want you, I just need you, I just gotta have you
Complete me, come with me, complete me
Breathe Again
(De Fazio, Fernè, Pignanelli, Poli, Zagnoli, Wilkerson)
Summer breeze is on my face, whenever I’m near you
Think of how we met on that sunny day
When we were lovers, friends, companions
Or everything, we were beautiful together
Summer nights, the way we were
Summer days, inside our love
Summer nights, all that I remember
Is you Baby, next to me
Breathe again, I wanna breathe again
Breathe again, I can’t breathe without you
You, I need the way you were
I need the time, the times we had
I can’t remember any better days
Summer nights, the wind on my face
Oh baby don’t you ever go away
Speak Easy and Listen
(De Fazio, Fernè, Pignanelli, Poli, Zagnoli, Rolfe)
Sitting here waiting anxiously
Wondering what this life has in store for me
Fuzzy black clouds sitting on my brain
Is this a trick or do I really feel pain?
Was I born an unlucky one
Who has to leave this life
Before I’m done saying what I have to say?
Let me just find my own way day by day
Programmed to feel what this life can do
Growing up hearing I won’t make it through
I’ve got to be more than just another young,
black man, in an anti-young-black-man-world
So see me for who I am
And not for who you think I should be
I don’t care what you think I should do
Watch me live my life how I want to
Let your ignorant fear of me haunt you
We could be the best of friends
if you got to know me
But obviously you don’t want to
Chalk that up as a loss but not mine
Living history that’s out of touch with the times
I seek to look within, not at the color of skin
Looking forward but never behind
Help me close the distance
The color of my skin is not all you should see
So Speak Easy and Listen
Open hearts and minds is the answer for Humanity
Speak easy and listen
Living with stereotypes and so-called “expertise”
Projecting my life expectancy
Make me set out to do things my own way
Before I wake and it’s Judgement Day
I make time to play a little Hide-and-Seek
with my babies, maybe lullaby them
While they sleep
Not a “dead-beat dad”, I take care of my own
Yes, a brotha holding down a two-parent home
Wreckin’ the curve of what the “experts” know
Time to take a new survey
And let the record show:
We don’t all turn out like you say we do
You stack the odds against us
And still we find a way to make it through
I’d admit if I was living a mistake,
Now shouldn’t you?
Help me close the distance
The color of my skin is not all you should see
So Speak Easy and Listen
Open hearts and minds is the answer for Humanity
Speak easy and listen
A Rather Uncomfortable Combination
(De Fazio, Fernè, Pignanelli, Poli, Zagnoli, Hill)
A rather uncomfortable combination
Expresses the difference
Between a rise and a fall
Tells the voice of your nation
And our place, my place in it all
You know the rules and the mission:
Destroy reason build prisons
To cut the roots and your laces,
To make more money by parting the races!
Y’all don’t have the races no
You approach the story for power and glory
We don’t even hurry
See there is no need to worry
But You are the right ones, the best, the braves
And we become the wrong one, the lost,
The waves
You speak with passion where’s the action
I like the quiet, so hard to find it
You want confusion, why not solutions?
Where is the balance, the union, a fusion
A rather uncomfortable combination
You’re friends or you’re foes, we make love
Or make blows, goal is clear don’t you fear
It’s a truth, a truth we all know
A truth we all know
Your lips are hot, skin is warm, silence speaks
I want to learn, learn to listen and understand
Confronting our differences should be the plan
You should be the plan
I am making senses and I am building tenses
Where to find more glories I’m sick of falling stories
But your life is easy,and breezy, it’s fun
My days are lonely, so slowly, you won
You love the daylights, I like midnight
Your look is perfect, my thoughts better
You search around: where is my sound?
Where is the joint, the jump, the ground?
A rather uncomfortable combination
Sometimes persists for details
A glance renewed each days
A chance to stop for a minute
You know we make things too complicated
We’re different but it’s easy
Double Dream
(De Fazio, Fernè, Pignanelli, Poli, Zagnoli, Velik)
Everywhere I go, I see you in my mind
And wishing you were here, no solace I can find
This feeling is so deep, a love I can’t explain
Can be hotter than the sun and colder than the rain
I put my jacket on and walk into the night
Looking for a sign but I can not see the light
I’m giving myself up and I stand under the rain
'Cause I know this love is real I can not stand the pain
This is our dream a wonderful problem that's life
Double dreams do not just exist in the night
What more could I want than to be there by your side
So everyday when the morning comes
You're the first thing in my eyes
Seconds turn to hours when dawn becomes the day
My dreams are fooling me but I must find a way
To hold you in my arms and take you far away
So I can close my eyes and you will still be near
I dream with open eyes, I dream when I’m awake
It feels like this ‘s so real but there is no mistake
The tides will wash away, the storm it will subside
And I’ll keep holding on, until you by my side
This is our dream a wonderful problem that's life
Double dreams do not just exist in the night
What more could I want than to be there by your side
Run and Hide
(De Fazio, Fernè, Pignanelli, Poli, Zagnoli, Jordan)
Lost inside your own world, shadows fall around you
Leaving you uncertain of everything you say and do
Is it all just make believe or do you know the truth?
Getting too close so you leave
But you can't run from you
Do you know what I feel or hear me when I call?
You never look behind you
But I'm there to catch you when you fall
You try to hide from what you see
Never know what you'll find
But I know what we could be If you trust what's inside
When you look in my eyes what do you see
Am I really there?
Trying so hard to reach you, I don't understand
How can I make you see, it's so clear
But still you run away, you run and hide
Run away and hide
Don’t run away
No don’t run away and hide
Rubber Soul
(De Fazio, Fernè, Pignanelli, Poli, Zagnoli, Velik)
Fight for all that’s not so clever
Find your way that’s always better
Lie, sometimes you're not to blame
You know at last I'll find the soul you hide
And I can see it in your eyes
If you let it go, if you just say no,
Just release the flow, let it come and go
We can really fly to a southern sky
Where the time is of another kind
And love can cross the borders of your mind
Light your fire tonight ‘n forever
Fly with your body, just for pleasure
Life sometimes is not to blame
You know at last that I’ll find the soul you hide
And I can see it in your eyes
If you feel a smile, let it stay a while
If you close your eyes, you will realise
We can really fly to a southern sky
Where the time is of another kind
And I can cross the borders of your mind
Rubber Soul… if you let it go
Rubber Soul… if you just say no
Rubber Soul… when I'm on my own
Rubber Soul… now my love has flown
Rubber Soul… we can change a life
Rubber Soul… we can really fly
Rubber soul… from the working week
Rubber soul… when you feel so freak
Rubber soul… if you lose your lover
Rubber soul… when your game is over
Rubber soul… when love breaks down
Rubber soul… when your skin is brown
Rubber soul… when you’ve had enough
Rubber soul… when the world is tough
Rubber soul… is the soul you hide
Rubber soul… at last I'll find
Slide Away
(De Fazio, Fernè, Pignanelli, Poli, Zagnoli)
Here we are, by ourselves
Silent words, distant worlds
What looks like heaven is ghosts and ravens
We’re wasting time, we know the signs
Slide away now, slide away
Try again now, slide away
Here you are, so near so far
‘Cause talking loud is only sound
It can’t be worse when words become stones
I’ve lost your scent, could this be the end?
Slide away now, slide away
Try again now, slide away
Believe
(De Fazio, Fernè, Pignanelli, Poli, Zagnoli, Jordan)
Under a spell of our own making
We slip into the silence
Unspoken words with hidden meanings
I understand completely
That my heart and soul belong to you
Don’t ever question
Because you can believe as I can believe
I can believe in you, I can believe in you
Now that I know just how your heart feels
I can't lie, I can't hide from my soul
And I need you to know
All of the past now behind you
Now that I’m there beside you
I know sometimes it's hard to let go (just let go)
Of the pain inside, but I believe
I can believe in you, I can believe in you
Come into my life, that’s all I need
Come into my life…
Come into my life, now I believe
I'm Tired
(De Fazio, Fernè, Pignanelli, Poli, Zagnoli, Wilkerson)
This is not a love song, it’s about my broken heart
And how I’ve taken so long to make it stop, this pain
This is not a love song, please understand
I can’t take this no more, ‘cause my heart will tear and I
Gotta move on, gotta keep goin' on
Gotta move on, gotta move on
I'm tired, I’m thru, I’m tired
The way you hurt me like you did, I'm tired
That will be the last time,
You hurt me from the start
You wiped your feet on my heart
The way you hurt me like you did, I'm tired
But now I feel so strange without you by me
(and I’m hurting)
Oh baby I don’t like this feeling that I feel
Spin so many times
I'm tired, I’m thru, I’m tired
I tried and tried and tried and tried
The way you hurt me like you did, I'm tired
You hurt me from the start
You wiped your feet on my heart
The way you hurt me like you did, I'm tired
Seems like I'm takin' you back, one more time
Love’s so strong baby…
Gotta be strong, gotta hold on
This is not a love song baby
I’m telling you what went wrong
All those things that you said, how you felt
when I felt, when I felt, what you felt
Rising BIble
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Old man sitting on the wall
there’s a knowledge in this eyes
from his observing post
watches all the passers-by
He’s seen it all before
hypocrisy destroys love
but young people try to change
and his wise advise is
Go with the rising Bible…
Wise woman sitting on a porch
Says its time for you to bare the torch
There’s a wisdom living in your heart
And its time for her to start
See I may leave you soon enough
And your turn is coming into play
You are our future force
So read you destiny
And go with the rising Bible…