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| neo Diglot Groupie IndiaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6615 days ago 81 posts - 83 votes  Speaks: Hindi*, English Studies: German, Italian | Message 1 of 11 04 July 2008 at 5:58am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Hi there!
I like the song L'uomo Sogna Di Volare by the Italian group Negrita. I really would like to know the meaning of this song...can anyone help ? Here are the lyrics: L'uomo sogna di volare... Guardare dall'alto, planare sul mare Che si trovi su un aereo o in un grande appartamento sui gradini di una chiesa nella favela di Candeal L'uomo sogna di volare E scrive sui muri noi siamo tutti uguali ma prega nel buio: la sorte del pi? debole... NON TOCCHI MAI A ME COME DIVENTA FACILE VOLTARSI E NON GUARDARE COME DIVENTA FACILE PENSARE NON E' COLPA MIA COME DIVENTA FACILE MA TUTTO QUELLO CHE PUO' DIRE UN UOMO E'... L'uomo sogna di volare... Guardare dall'alto, planare sul mare L'uomo ha voglia di cambiare Ma non sa pi? come fare L'uomo ha voglia di cambiare Ma non sa pi? cosa fare L'uomo sogna di volare E allora... Partenza, decollo, non c'e' nessun controllo Di scatto riparto, Ci sono cose che volevo... ma non ti ho detto mai COME DIVENTA FACILE VOLTARSI E NON GUARDARE COME DIVENTA FACILE PENSARE NON E' COLPA MIA COME DIVENTA FACILE MA TUTTO QUELLO CHE PUO' DIRE VERAMENTE UN UOMO E'... NON FATE COME ME NON FATE COME ME ------------ Molto Grazie! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6512 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 11 04 July 2008 at 7:42am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Man dreams about flying
to look from above to fly low over the sea Whether you are in an airplane or in a big flat on the stairs of a church in the favela di Candeal (a slum in Rio) Man dreams about flying and writes on the walls we are all equal but prays into the darkness the fate of the 'pi' (devout people??)? Weak ... Don't touch me How easy it becomes to turn around and not look How easy it becomes to think it isn't my fault How easy it becomes But all that a man can say is... Man dreams about flying to look from above to fly low over the sea Man wants to change but doesn't know 'pi' (?!?). How to do it Man wants to change but doesn't know 'pi' (?!?). What to do Man dreams about flying And then... Departure, take-off There is no control Abruptly I leave again, there are things that I wanted to do.. but I never told you How easy it becomes to turn around and not look How easy it becomes to think it isn't my fault How easy it becomes But all that a man can really say is... Don't do like me Don't do like me ----- The word 'pi' in this text is somewhat problematic - any ideas from people who really know some Italian? Edited by Iversen on 04 July 2008 at 8:01am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6248 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 3 of 11 04 July 2008 at 8:04am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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L'uomo sogna di volare...
Man dreams of flying... Guardare dall'alto, to look from above, planare sul mare to glide on the sea Che si trovi su un aereo Whether he finds himself on an airplane o in un grande appartamento or in a large appartment sui gradini di una chiesa on the steps of a church nella favela di Candeal in the favela of Candeal (a slum in Brazil) L'uomo sogna di volare Man dreams of flying E scrive sui muri And he writes on the walls noi siamo tutti uguali We are all equal ma prega nel buio: but he prays in the dark la sorte del pi? debole... The rise of the weaker.... NON TOCCHI MAI A ME Will never touch me COME DIVENTA FACILE How can it become easy VOLTARSI E NON GUARDARE To turn around and not to look COME DIVENTA FACILE How can it become easy PENSARE NON E' COLPA MIA To think that it's not my fault COME DIVENTA FACILE How can it become easy MA TUTTO QUELLO But all that CHE PUO' DIRE UN UOMO E'... That a man can say is... L'uomo sogna di volare... Man dreams of flying... Guardare dall'alto, To look down from above planare sul mare to glide on the sea L'uomo ha voglia di cambiare Man has the desire to change Ma non sa pi? come fare But he doesn't know how to do it anymore L'uomo ha voglia di cambiare Man has the desire to change Ma non sa pi? cosa fare But he doesn't know what to do anymore L'uomo sogna di volare Man dreams of flying E allora... And so... Partenza, decollo, Departure, take-off non c'e' nessun controllo There is no control Di scatto riparto, From the take off I leave again Ci sono cose che volevo... There are things that I wanted ma non ti ho detto mai but that I never told you COME DIVENTA FACILE How can it become easy VOLTARSI E NON GUARDARE To turn and not to look COME DIVENTA FACILE How can it become easy PENSARE NON E' COLPA MIA to think that it is not my fault COME DIVENTA FACILE how can it become easy MA TUTTO QUELLO But everything that CHE PUO' DIRE VERAMENTE UN UOMO E'... You can truly say to a man is... NON FATE COME ME Don't do as I did NON FATE COME ME Don't do as I did Edit: fixed a mistranslation of 'favela'; it's a slum in Brazil, as Iversen correctly noted. Edited by Volte on 04 July 2008 at 8:12am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6248 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 4 of 11 04 July 2008 at 8:08am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Yes, it's a common side-effect when software can't handle non-ASCII characters. It's the word 'più'; it means something like 'anymore' in this context, or 'more'. le più debole = the weakest ('the more weak') Ma non sa pi? cosa fare = he doesn't know what to do anymore (with the implication that he wasn't this lost and confused at one point.) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6248 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 5 of 11 04 July 2008 at 8:14am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Would any native speakers who know the song chip in on whether "come diventa facile" is a question or statement in it? Not having heard the song, I'm unsure, and "How does it become easy to...?" is fairly different from the declaration that it does become easy.
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| Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6512 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 6 of 11 04 July 2008 at 8:27am | IP Logged | ||||||||
of course ... I simply didn't think about the possibility of corrupted characters in the text, and then I tried googling for the enigmatic 'pi' and even put it into one of these translation machines .. and it responded with "devout", which made even less sense. With "più" everything falls into place. Thanks.
Although being an utterly non-native non-Italian who haven't heard the song I don't think this interpretation is likely to be the most likely one. Either "Come..." is an isolated sentence, i.e. an exclamation with the meaning "How easy....!", or the whole sentence is the object of "ho detto" and then it is an interrogative subordinate clause, where "come" functions as a conjunction but still has traces of the meaning of the interrogative pronoun ("I have never said how easy ...") - with no hint of a question. In both cases it is taken for granted that it is easy to close one's eyes for the disturbing realities. I prefer the first analysis because of the line breaks before "Come..." , and that case "ma non ti ho detto mai" refers to the fact that there were things that the singer wanted to do but never did, - apparently because it has become a habit for that person to fly away at the flick of an eye. Edited by Iversen on 04 July 2008 at 8:56am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6248 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 7 of 11 04 July 2008 at 8:59am | IP Logged | ||||||||
I definitely agree with the analysis that it's unrelated to the "non ti ho detto mai"; that's in an entirely different stanza. In Italian songs, "come..." is often used as a sort of exhortation - but there's a continuum from the preachy to the asking of questions, from rhetorically to genuinely. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| neo Diglot Groupie IndiaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6615 days ago 81 posts - 83 votes Speaks: Hindi*, English Studies: German, Italian | Message 8 of 11 04 July 2008 at 12:14pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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THANK YOU SO MUCH!
translation + interpretation is really interesting. I realised I should have posted a link to the song if anyone wanted to take a look...instead of assuming anyone interested would google it up eventually...so here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWvCKNlI-Jk THANKS AGAIN! 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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