Impantanato Nel Vietnam
2022 · Lo Scafandro SCAF16 · Italy
- Artist
- Fabrizio Tavernelli
- Title
- Impantanato Nel Vietnam
- Release
- Algoritmi
- Year
- 2022
- Label
- Lo Scafandro # SCAF16
- Format
- CD · Album
- Language
- Italian
- Country
- Italy
- Songwriter
- not credited
- Genre
- Rock · Indie Rock
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Lyrics
English: Mired in Vietnam, / Stuck in the quagmire / In the sand I wrote 'I love you' / Tiny, tiny, in Guantanamo / I don’t tremble before your breast / And that’s why I don’t love you / I used to love the Beatles and the Rolling Stones / But I ended up in Vietnam / And I hear an instrument that always plays / The same note: ra-ta-ta-ta / All around, the plants are leafless / Napalm burns away my desires / I love the smell of napalm in the morning / And buzzing around the light that will set me ablaze / Being stripped bare by Agent Orange / Shaving my head, then heading off / Only to remain mired in the unresolved Caught in a loop, in a cul-de-sac / With the click-clack of the roulette wheel The only lab rat, the experiment fails / He can’t find his way out of the maze / Circling the same poorly expressed concept / I am the hamster spinning the wheel of your heart / The dog that won’t fetch the stick / The dog that’s stopped salivating / Pavlov, depressed / If you cut into the present, the future spills out / If you cut into my gut, the quagmire spills out / Where the creature from the lagoon lives / And the Troma avenger / Fallen into a pit of toxic sludge / Among mutant fish and skeletal amphibians Caught in a loop, in a cul-de-sac / With the click-clack and the double-click of the roulette wheel Luck—sure, it kissed you / But without any tongue / The warrior returned victorious / Yet everyone can see he’s been decapitated / He fell just inches from the finish line / Just…
Notes
Digipak. Producer Fabrizio Tavernelli; recorded/edited by Lorenzo Lusvardi; mixed by Fabio Ferraboschi and Tavernelli at Busker Studio; mastered by Fabio Ferraboschi; artwork Marco Marastoni. Style: Indie Rock. Mired in Vietnam, from the self-produced 2022 album Algoritmi.
Themes
Napalm · Agent Orange · Apocalypse Now · Violence Metaphor · Soldier's Perspective