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- Herausgeber: Marco Delrio
- Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
- Sprache: Englisch
I started writing songs when I was 16, when my parents gave me my first guitar; it was a cheap classical guitar, with strings that felt like barbed wire and a sound that reminded you of those early polyphonic ringtones. I learned about three chords and started jotting down lyrics in English, even though I was terrible at it, but I didn't want to write in Italian, it sounded so cheesy and “pop”. I think I wrote about a thousand songs but most of them were garbage, grammatically awful or non-sense. I've always collected them, though, knowing that maybe, one day, I would be able to come back and “polish them up”, give them a meaning. And I did that, in this book – although some of them still remain terrible.
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Marco Delrio
Arboreal Sharks
Table of Contents
Arboreal Sharks
Introduction
Songs We Never Sing
Before You Leave Forever
A Girl Named Phoenix
Agony!
Back Home
Anesthetics For Werewolves
Heartdrops
Down
Romance
Come What May
Emily
Our Sweet Carnage
Wonder
Anniversary
Over
Storms Are Rumbling Away
Ay, Carmela! (Civil War)
Seasons
Under a Million Skies
Three Years
Goliath
When I Was Younger
Phoenix II
A French Girl's Mirage
Mihaly Csikszentmihaly
Little Monster
Like I Give a Fuck
Bernard
Falling Leaves
Bristol
Red Autumn
Violence and Poison
The Day the Empires Burned Down
Way Back Home
Home
The Black Sun War
Himalaya (You'd Better Kill Me As Long As You're Behind Me)
I've Had Enough
And I Surrender
Not Enough
Distant Seventeen
Marigolds
Here Again
For What She Is
Winnipeg
That's Why They Put Erasers On Pencils
The Girl Who Owns the World
I'm a Chameleon, You're a Klimt Painting
Pointless Anecdotes of Love and Bad Luck
Mr. Theodore "the Thunder" Parker Snr.
Arboreal Sharks
Evening
Footprints
Like A Cloud
In A Moment
Morning
Skeptic
Statically Descending
Sun
Twilight
Wounds
Years Later
Rejections
Dawn
Critics
Alone in the World
Shred
Earthquake
Uncomfortable Stability
Unusual Light
Winter
Stroll
Pink Sunset
When I Think
Storm
Already Late
Hells
Derisory Headaches
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Arboreal Sharks
A Collection of Songs and Poems
Marco Delrio
2018
Introduction
I started writing songs when I was 16, when my parents gave me my first guitar; it was a cheap classical guitar, with strings that felt like barbed wire and a sound that reminded you of those early polyphonic ringtones. I learned about three chords and started jotting down lyrics in English, even though I was terrible at it, but I didn't want to write in Italian, it sounded so cheesy and “pop”. I think I wrote about a thousand songs but most of them were garbage, grammatically awful or non-sense. I've always collected them, though, knowing that maybe, one day, I would be able to come back and “polish them up”, give them a meaning. And I did that, in this book – although some of them still remain terrible!
This book is a collection of all the “best” songs and poems I found in my archives; they're in chronological order so you might catch a glimpse of my improvements.
I'll never be confident about my English language but I've decided to publish this collection anyway, so please forgive and forget any error you spot in the verses, and focus on the topics.
If you want to get in touch with me to talk about these works, you can find my addresses at the end of this book.
Enjoy.
I want to thank all of the trees that provided the tons of paper I wasted scribbling shitty songs.
I also want to thank my patient girlfriend, my favorite bassist and all of my English professors.
Songs We Never Sing
Before You Leave Forever
Someone said the bad ones always win So why am I standing here alone To bathe with my radio plugged in, Singing one of your favorite songs? And all the words Are holding my body beneath the surface. You row back to shore And the sight of you waving drives me insane.
Someone said the bad ones always win So why is everybody throwing stones? I'll sleep with my radio plugged in But you ruined all of my favorite songs And all the world Is crashing upon my squeaking shoulders. You row back to shore And leave me anchored, Dead and broken.
Shoot this hourglass, I can't stand another second Watching you sneak out of my life And leave forever.
Godspeed to all my letters, I hope you could read 'em all And don't reply, I'm too scared Of you saying "no".
And all of these poems Might reveal I'm in love. Honestly I'm shocked You're still gone.
A Girl Named Phoenix
She begins with frown, With a whisper, "I'm over it, Bring me back to light! I'm a leaf on the ground With no hope in my veins And I'm so sick of crying... I got stashed in a drawer Among all my dreams And mirrors told me lies. Hit the bottom and burned But the lesson got learned And now the ink On my skin Is a sign that I'm
Back to life, I felt the roars of the thunders When falling downwards Though I survived; Almost everything passed As I laid in the ashes, Still, feeling every second Passing by On my withered soul And now these walls Start moving back. I'm a phoenix back to the world.
Now this sun doesn't hurt On the signs of the plasters; Heaven's not so high, now. What if everyone's wrong? What if I am really happy? Would you just be kind Or forsake me again Where I blend with my shame And flush away my life? Hit the bottom and burned But my luck is on turn And I am... I am still here.
Back to life, I felt the roars of the thunders When falling downwards Though I survived; Almost everything passed As I laid in the ashes, Still, feeling every second Passing by On my withered soul And now these walls Start moving back. I'm a phoenix back to the world."
