DRIVE THIS SKY
(Pier Morandi)
like a young girl in the cornfield at the daylight walkin’ down
with a black worn-out dress with the hard snow underfoot
tryin’ to cross that old river, he was looking down the line
with his plane made of iron with his eyes full of light
she was standin’ alone
he was carryin’ no home
and the young girl running up to the blood of his eyes
took him home and laid him down on her poor bed in the dark
she was standin’ alone
he was carryin’ no home
drive this sky touch the sigh
move your eyes find the rise
the time he was born the time she was born ..baby
drive this sky touch the sigh
there she dressed all the wounds in the silence of her sights
like a mother like a lover to the man with no words
she was standin’ alone
he was carryin’ no home
drive this sky touch the sigh
move your eyes find the rise
the time he was born the time she was born ..baby
drive this sky touch the sigh
so their days quickly passed at the shadow of their nights
till he tuned back the pages to the place he had come
just a letter written down to the cornfields to the nights
just a letter to the girl to an address never known
she was standin’ alone
he was carryin’ no home
drive this sky touch the sigh
move your eyes find the rise
the time he was born the time she was born ..baby
drive this sky touch the sigh
drive this sky touch the sigh
"questa canzone è legata alla storia di una ragazza che, durante la guerra, nasconde e cura un pilota americano precipitato nei campi di grano. dopo l'armistizio, lui ritorna a casa, le scrive una lettera, ma non avendo l'indirizzo, la lettera vaga per anni nel nord d'Italia, fino a quando, forse per magia, raggiunge la casa e la ragazza. passano gli anni, ma lui non dimentica, non può dimenticare ..e un giorno ritorna,,."
....tempo fa mi raccontarono questa storia, me la raccontò la figlia della ragazza del campo di granoturco,
posizione SIAE 170473