Franco Battiato – Centro Di Gravità Permanente Italian Lyrics English Translations

Una vecchia bretone
– An old Breton
Con un cappello e un ombrello di carta di riso e canna di bambù
– With a hat and an umbrella of rice paper and bamboo cane
Capitani coraggiosi
– Brave captains
Furbi contrabbandieri macedoni
– Clever Macedonian smugglers
Gesuiti euclidei
– Euclidean Jesuits
Vestiti come dei bonzi per entrare a corte degli imperatori
– Dressed like bonzi to enter the court of emperors
Della dinastia dei Ming
– Of the Ming Dynasty

Cerco un centro di gravità permanente
– I’m looking for a permanent center of gravity
Che non mi faccia mai cambiare idea sulle cose sulla gente
– Don’t ever make me change my mind about things about people
Avrei bisogno di…
– I would need to…
(Cerco un centro di gravità permanente)
– (I’m looking for a permanent center of gravity)
(Che non mi faccia mai cambiare idea sulle cose sulla gente)
– (Never make me change my mind about things about people)
Over and over again
– Over and over again

Per le strade di Pechino erano giorni di maggio
– On the streets of Beijing were May days
Tra noi si scherzava a raccogliere ortiche
– Between us we were joking about picking nettles
Non sopporto i cori russi
– I can’t stand Russian choirs
La musica finto rock, la new wave italiana, il free jazz punk inglese
– Fake rock music, Italian new wave, English free jazz punk
Neanche la nera africana
– Not even the black Afrikaans

Cerco un centro di gravità permanente
– Looking for a permanent center of gravity
Che non mi faccia mai cambiare idea sulle cose sulla gente
– Don’t ever make me change my mind about things about people
Avrei bisogno di…
– I would need to…
(Cerco un centro di gravità permanente)
– (I’m looking for a permanent center of gravity)
(Che non mi faccia mai cambiare idea sulle cose sulla gente)
– (Never make me change my mind about things about people)
Over and over again
– Over and over again

What you are you, are you
– What you are you, are you
What you are you, are you
– What you are you, are you
You are a woman in love
– You are a woman in love
Baby I need your love
– Baby I need your love
I want your love
– I want your love
Over and over again
– Over and over again
Come in into my life, ooh baby
– Like in into my life, ooh baby
I want to give you my soul
– I want to give you my soul
Baby I, I need your love
– Baby I, I need your love