Premiata Forneria Marconi - Paper Charms testo (lyrics)

How many times, swan we got cold
You uncorked your wine

How far we drove drunk
On a car of paper charms

Light drawing sun cartoons
Sunday fairs and red ballons

How far we seemed to fly
Calling life a sugar spoon
Pain was a bird to fight
Sending feathered sticky kites
Through the night

Spring saw us leaving
Thinking to slide down a moony river
But reaching just a cardboard sea
The promised wonderland

Cross the drums battle sounds
Soon we lost our paper wings

Knew the thirst knew the pain
Learned to walk


To the man trying to stand
We composed our best songs

Iron shoes tramped on us
Mad fanfare of dirty tunes

Then we knew taste of dust
Learned to fight

To the man shaking fists
We composed our last songs

New every morning
Our poems will turn with care
Just like the sunflowers
Cause we know the taste of time

How, how far we drove swan
From our fading paper town
Far from your sticky moons
Shiny kites and red balloons
Your nowhere wonderland