OREN EMATAC

Ho solo una tua foto
è là rinchiusa nel cassetto
tra le pagine di un libro.
Non ho bisogno di vederla per ricordarmi di te,
come non abbiamo mai avuto bisogno di fermare la nostra immagine,
impressa nei ricordi,
tatuata nell'anima,
sangue nel sangue.
Quel rosso acceso
che colorava i contorni neri.
Ho solo una tua foto
è là tra le pagine di un libro,
senza più il dente che hai voluto che donassi
se la taglio
non esce più quel rosso sul nero,
non ne esce un tuo sospiro di piacere,
quanto è difficile rinascere
quando si sa che volevo morire con te.
Ho solo una tua foto
chiusa in un cassetto
non è un cassetto di ricordi,
ma il ricordo di un cassetto.


I've been looking so long at my pictures of
you that I almost believe that they're real
I've been living so long with my pictures of you that
I almost believe that the pictures are all I can
feel

Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as
I ran to your heart to be near
And we kissed as the sky fell in holding you close how I always held close in your fear
Remembering you running soft through the night
You were bigger and brighter and whiter than snow
Screamed at the make-believe screamed at the sky
And you finally found all your courage to let it all go

Remembering you fallen into my arms
Crying for the death of your heart
You were stone white so delicate
So lost in the cold
You were always so lost in the dark remembering you
How you used to be so drowned you were
Angels so much more than everything
oh hold for the last time then slip away quietly
Open my eyes but i never see anything

If only I had thought of the right words I could
have held on to your heart
If only I'd thought of the right words I wouldn't be breaking apart all my pictures of you

Looking so long at these pictures of you but I
never hold on to your heart
Looking so long for the words to be true but always just breaking apart my pictures of you

There was nothing in the world that I ever
wanted more
Than to feel you deep in my heart
There was nothing in the world that I ever
wanted more
Than to never feel the breaking apart
My pictures of you