Fiume Sand Creek
Fabrizio De André| INGLESE / ENGLISH [2] - Shel Shapiro | |
| SAND CREEK RIVER | RIVER SAND CREEK |
| They've taken away our heart under a dark blanket Under a moon dead in childhood, we slept without fear. It was a twenty years old general Wearing a uniform deep blue as his eyes, It was a twenty years old general, The son of a storm | He came and rained down upon me, asleep and unafraid Under a diamond moon and covered sky, it ain't a sense we lay A minister of God with a killer's hawk, steel blue eyes That color of his uniform, blown from the thunder in the skies |
| There's a silver dollar lying on the bottom of Sand Creek. | Through the Sand Creek riverbed a silver dollar lies |
| Our warriors were too far away on the buffalo track And that distant music grew louder and louder I closed my eyes thrice, I found myself there again I asked my grandpa, Is that only a dream, My grandpa told me Yes | Our warriors too far away, ??? A distant music swelling, growing, fattening, soaring, fear Three times I closed my eyes and all three times a nightmare came My father's father touched my head and says "Just look again" |
| Sometimes the fish are singing on the bottom of Sand Creek. | You can sometimes hear a fish still sing at the bottom of Sand Creek |
| I made so strong dreams that my nose started bleeding, The lightning in one ear, paradise in the other, And then the smallest tears And then the biggest tears When the snow tree Gave red starred blossoms | I dreamed so loud it seemed so real the blood flowed from my nose I flashed lightning blinding as the heaven's truth arose The smallest tear gave way in time to the largest ever shed Oh, when the snow tree of their ancestors turned from white to red |
| Now the children are sleeping on the bottom of Sand Creek. | And the sleeping children dreamed their dreams on the Sand Creek riverbed |
| When the sun raised its head beyond the night's shoulders There were only dogs and smoke and overturned tepees I threw an arrow at the sky So that it may breathe I threw an arrow at the wind So that it may bleed | When the sun pulls up its head between the shoulders of the night It just .. smoke and tents to burn in the spectral light I shot an arrow at the sky to let the arrow breathe I shot an arrow at the wings to let the arrow feed |
| Look for the third arrow on the bottom of Sand Creek. | The third one if you want it's at the bottom of Sand Creek |
| They've taken away our heart under a dark blanket Under a moon dead in childhood, we slept without fear. It was a twenty years old general Wearing a uniform deep blue as his eyes, It was a twenty years old general, The son of a storm | They came ... our hearts when we we were sleeping unafraid Covered by a diamond moon beneath the bright parade (?) The minister of God with a killer's heart and pale blue eyes The color of his uniform blown from a thunder in the skies |
| Now the children are sleeping on the bottom of Sand Creek. | In the Sand Creek, Riverbed a soul of dark lies |
