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About Places

by GIOBBE

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1.
Hopes and fears, staring at sea line This bench is stone cold And I'm too far from your warm touch Yet the wind will change As nothing stays the same Howth will never be that lame old place Dublin's calling back again Saint Stephen's green, two friends would go native Unveiling new corners As if they're searching in the deep And the paths they're running on are turning into one And the lies they're telling on are growing into stones Yet this wind will change
2.
Salamanca 03:10
The car stalled out soon and reset our mood We don't wanna miss that bus Call your dad & hurry up! Late but on time, we won't miss that flight 20 students who once won 30 days to study abroad So young and hopeful blokes So we don't wanna wait on We just wanna go and learn much more Salamanca waits for us We said goodbye last night 'Cause we won't be the same sorts We simply want to go and live much more Salamanca changed us Fray Luis de Leon was our home for a month Few new kids with eyes that shine Booming out and growing up The days we enjoyed trimmed the farewell words People they just come and go But that trip was deeply worth We're growing up at last, 30 days: enough! Booming out so fast, Salamanca and a grant Enough! Enough!
3.
Fair enough, took your time and wait As outside things changed rapidly It took too long, feelings fade away Help decide, please come just close to me Still I wait seasons and friends to change See that strait taking out East from West On a boat or on another plane Hurry up and look for the shortest way Apparently facts look far from what you say Ups and downs, tides of mixed feelings Now I'm dull and then I'm at the wheel Hope you're fine, flowing down the stream I would wait ages at the mountain feet Once I felt like a nobody at the Bosphorus Aparts When you came from the West side, I could do nothing but wait They expect from me the right thing, but it's something I can't see I still feel like I'm a nothing, won't complain then if you leave I still feel like I'm a nothing
4.
Egeria Alley 03:41
Fifty meters, square Filled with wilderness Every single bend In the middle of nowhere As your limbs seem like tearing up And you've had enough In a film where you had a part That you'd easily cut You won't go easy on me And throw your peace on me You miss humanity Yet small house, no you won't win Alley blind and dead Dead-end man Second-rate You won't go easy on me And throw your peace on me You miss humanity Yet small house, no you won't win
5.
Apiary 03:26
Down the Galata tower As the people swell high-powered You and I head down To that small red wine house As our teeth give in to the red wine effect You seem the same as a bee Working hard endlessly Far from home, in your town Unheard words sound like a chant This small table surrounds All the world we require As we broach another bottle And we feel a little higher As our troubles of the mind hold You and I did look alike As our teeth give in to the red wine effect You seem the same as a bee Working hard endlessly A few tears elbow in the backgrounds of my Shiny eyes, as I attempt To hide all of my weakness
6.
Anytime I fall off It ain't the time you win Everytime you follow Just then you lose your way Clean the place Open those curtains up at last Wash your face Gaze at that mirror frame and cheer up Anytime I fall off It ain't the time you win Everytime you follow Just then you lose your way It's over now Gathering all your stuff, it's time Turn around The last quick glance around, Goodbye In any case, I think it's time to realize That it's not the place that you liked If you feel the same, close the door and muster up You will find a better place to clean up Anytime I fall off It ain't the time you win Everytime you follow Just then you lose your way
7.
We're taking things too far These conversations kill The bridges we lift up The scars that we won't heal Walls, Borders and Bridges The marks that we'd overstep The bad form of the questions The answers formulation Useless charge and regret But tonite, yeah tonite Cruising around and far My car bears heavy feet We look all around but us An extra wall between Of no account if you're wrong or right All that counts is to hold the grudge But at last we'll go beyond Just back down, let's give up the fight
8.
Embankment flat, as small as damp Two frieds and their own two fates In Rome we dwell, and all we share Along that river bank Yet we feel so safe As we take on provocations From a world trying to kick us both up So we feel ok In this strange, odd sotuation In a world that we're trying to put out Four weeks, eight days. Two cribs, no deck Old friends and one room flat This town's too harsh, as high is the rent Along that dirty bank Noone else will beat that powerhouse Nothing else will seem as safe and sound
9.
My Face Ages 02:50
If you come along with me Will you ever really see That you’re so young and my face ages Walking down those Taksim streets Anything I only fear That you’re so young and my face ages Through the years, under the wire I put my feet deeply on the ground I’ll drop the ball that I’ll do without If you come and live with me Will you get along with this That you’re still young and my face ages And all across the world with me The only thing I can’t conceal That you’re so young While my face ages Through the years, under the wire I put my feet deeply on the ground I’ll drop the ball that I’ll do without Yet if you hit a nerve I hide And you phase out what I’m feeding up The ball I dropped I’ll really do without
10.
Walton 02:41
Walton streets, hostile at the beginning You don’t care of that sad young man that the Erasmus sent But Liverpool wait and we will be two good friends I’ll use the “Merseyrail” again I’ll be at the docks for days “Ta-Rà mates”, “You got the dog’s bollocks” I’m in a flat with three native friends who their idioms share Of Campus belt I don’t really care of I’m in the scouser land of Fab Four I ain’t here to paint it red At the end of my time by the Mersey Those Walton streets I would not leave Now Liverpool see, we finally got two good friends I took the Merseyrail so often that it got my cup of tea Well, Liverpool wait and I’ll be back as old friends I’ll catch the double-decker lane I’ll be at the Cavern gigs
11.
Grisolia 03:06
Driving on my own by this old shoreline Relivin' all my summers back in time Would you blurt out all your fears Somehow try to make up your mind And as I sort out my ideas I'll let the wind wipe out my doubts Would you get left behind? I used to come here when the season's high Memories crowd in weary minds We're drivin' all along a wild shoreline I wish you could see those happy times Another year, other days to swell my heart You feel like home and there's no surprise Would you get left behind? Can you find a better place to hide?
12.
One hundred families grow fast At that small city edge Some strangers, some are long time friends Sharing a wide-open space My place for hiding And not sympathizing with myself I don't wanna act like 'em I won't end up just like them So many children they would bear Those lively days of summer spell Connections that we won't forget As only children friends can The precious red ball The endless seasons The band, the first loves Fresh water in the box As anything fades in thin air As all our ties unravel I don't wanna be like 'em I will never act like 'em

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released September 4, 2015

Recorded, mixed and mastered by Francesco Tedesco at IM|Recording - Nocera Inferiore, SA - Italy

Produced by Francesco Tedesco and Fabio Giobbe
All songs and lyrics written by Fabio Giobbe
Published by I Make Records (2015)

The Musicians:

Fabio Giobbe: Vocals, Acoustic and electric guitars, shakers and tambourine
Dino Cuccaro: Drums
Gianluca Plomitallo: Acoustic and electric pianos
Marco Normando: Bass
Francesco Tedesco: Electric Guitars and drum in “My Face Ages”
Ferdinando Ghidelli: Pedal steel guitar
Gianluca D’Alessio: Cello

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GIOBBE Naples, Italy

I am a songwriter from southern Italy. During the last year and a half I have been working on my third solo album. It's called "GENTLE DWELLINGS" due to be released in Fall 2023, issued and co-produced with the indie label "Sound Inside Records".

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