August
is the coldest month of the year
winter moves six months forward
and this is not the South Pole
here is not the South Pole
August
The alarm clock breaks the silence
Someone is on vacation
and she sounds for hours
How cold it is
August
you look out on a sick heart
five o’clock in the evening
and it’s already pitch dark
winter in August
The ice
settles and covers things
the waiting for the warm freezes also the dead
How cold it is
If it is not true that you’re afraid
it’s not true that you feel alone
it’s not true that it’s cold
then why are you trembling in this August?
August
is written on your calendar
maybe you slept six months
but you’re so tired
so tired
August
is the coldest month of the year
in the other hemisphere they call it winter
August
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Agosto (August): a song* of Perturbazione (2002).
Video: Paroles en l’air (1995) by Sylvain Vincendeau**.
*Text in Italian **Text in French
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