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Selvacava

by LAPP

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1.
Ninnananna 03:02
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2.
Selvacava 03:11
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Brazen mountain fires Congregate the lonely choir In chancels of the pinewood Armando steps into the light The flames fawn the gentle sky above Selvacava is breathing Way down by the riverside The Few have heard her whisper They point towards the theatre cry So, you couldn’t leave this time? Did the visions feel so, so real? Couldn’t bare to, couldn't bare to live without it Umberto spirals down to the empty bus stop Where you trace over Ausonia’s moonlit eyes You climb the windows to the tile tops Where you glide to meet her gazing at the starlight Her baton tames the lightning bolts Silent as they pirouette and parade the sky tides past the Apennines And you lie down with her And you lie And you lie And you lie! And you lie here as the night is ruptured by the thunder! The choir song howlin’ now Paintings fall from your marble hallway Embers, ashes, traces of their faces Beg to stay then are forgotten Your heart aching for the one so unbounded You beg for her awakening For she is but a whisper And you escape the ruins to find her You rejoin The Few And The Shadows they all wait for you Sonny, let your fingers run the walls May your love survive And have the final dance In my world Nobody else is here Nobody, no, nobody else is here Oh God, oh God
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Goodbye, Josephine 07:03
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From the gods The Few watch on in disbelief Gus defies illusion from the drapes above the troupe And scolds the vanguard clipping all the stars above Iliana stands on broken glass staring at her feet The bloody choir bleeds onto the sad psalms The ink runs down the sink On the roof Berta spoke about a girl Who sailed alone and calmed the blue It can’t be true The Shadows said they saw the wreck So why fight? But they do! Don't let go Miracles proceed the dance The proscenium arch it grows onto the street From the loge Gus takes the hand of our Coco And leads her up a stairwell Towards the library bookshelves Sits her down and aims his gun between her eyes And just before he sends her to the skies Co cries “Please, will you sing me a lullaby? A lullaby A lullaby A lullaby Sing me a lullaby Put it in the sky Carve it in my side A lullaby” Rise! The Few take back the night They fight The Shadows to the summit heights Ah, lullabies What makes all the brokenhearted stand? She’s on the final page In a room ‘neath the fray She turns her face Josephine Armando finally holds her Her molten eyes they cease He runs his fingers down her cheek And cuts his palm upon the bevelled edges of her cheval glass Backstrips break The Shadows burst out of the seams He seizes pages Ink it flails above the fallen mezzanine “To die or to pretend?” He writes Gus kicks him to his knees Maybe we’re all just sinners here For who is sane without the dance? The Shadows part with Pina Through the casements to the street He rests his head against the barrel And from the hall a music box Turns so slow Then a lullaby A lullaby Soft lullaby A lullaby My lover Let's start all over again My lover It’s such a shame it all had to end Goodbye, Josephine
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Sky On The Roof 06:48
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Ah, you Did he lose that bottle top? Hold those tears, don’t you cry Dino says it’s lost in the sand But he’s really holding it round the back in his hand The evening falls from the mountain view I look at you from up here in the sky on the roof Chiara’s staring What’s wrong with you, man? Grab her hand and dance along the shore Scauri’s heaving These midnight sands Drinking wine and cheap beer till the dawn Sometimes you have to look around Oh, sonny, you, you don’t what you have Now I do! Summer wishin’ I know you’re scared You can be the lion if you dare! All night wanders Alone in your head You can have it all just let it in! Someday soon kid you’ll be a man Oh, sonny, you, you’ll know just what you had So, sleep well tonight in the sky on the roof The sky on the roof What a view! The symphony that liberates us This empty void Never lose the shooting star that finds tomorrow I'll find you there On the edge Of these lands that separate us So, let this be The very end Or sing your lonely vow and live on Sing it loud La, la, la, la, la La, la, la, la, la
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Io, Armando 04:53
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He ambles through The archway near Maria's A frozen wound Bared only by the gentle moon Lazes down He rests against a kiwi tree Draws a breath And listens to his hamlet town sleep A fallen nail From the parish stone, the holy keep Clatters down Raising phantoms from the umbra creeks Evening meals The village kids play hide and seek Share a glance Then vanish into the walls of Alfieri Ah, these hands These stolen wings Line the air the pine trees breathe The mask it breaks Bliss unveils Though it dissipates like morning dew But valiantly His body yields A sacrifice For a kiss of time For a moment is worth all of these wounds By Margherita Its ashy road, stowed summer heat The crickets' speech Gently moors unto the fountain stream What charade Why such a dance must die untold His shadow quells and halts its reign And lets the moonlight find The olive tree by his house Where he carves Io, Armando
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Correano 04:32
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Angelina's on the phone Go put on the clothes she bought Don't forget the presents by the door All your cousins, they're coming too Make sure bring some other shoes Bring your sprays The mosquitos are in town And I'm the lucky one A family of my own A place I call my home I'm in the car and I'm ready to go Get in or you're on your own Singing along to the radio Heading to Correano Oh, little one I used to run where You and your brother now play The years goes by In a blink of an eye I used to think nothing would change So, play until the dark And take care of each other Here is who you are I'm in the car and I'm ready to go Get in or you're on your own Singing along to the radio We're making our way to Correano
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Tu 05:45
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Hold my body down And fill the cup up right Let it spill over And drown this nave My dreams are violent, Father I watch it burn This barren star where I have come undone Where is your man to have me strung? I don’t believe in retribution But maybe he has made me stay here And kept me living on this Earth I didn’t say goodbye I didn’t say goodbye I didn't say goodbye I didn’t say goodbye I can never say goodbye I suppose the cross you bear Is like her paintings I have kept here An empty promise we both share I swear one winter morning I felt her kiss If I am sent to the darkest hell I'd climb through fire and break this Earth For some illusion on my chest To tell her words I never said "Just let me love you" Yes, one more time Father, I have lived with shame Cursed this child down This metal taste in my mouth But I will never forgive how I never spoke Never spoke aloud Of my perfect one So, take my body from this plane I’ll bow down and bear his name Just let me see Just let me see her in her beautiful light If I could see you now I would never again Never hide you from my heart And leave you in the dark Oh, if I could see you now Would you reveal yourself again? Father, I’ll take this sacred road You can have my soul Just let her hear these words “Just let me love you!” “Just let me love you again!” One more time
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Mist 01:52
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Wild Leaping 06:06
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Ancora 01:19
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Monte Cassino 06:45
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We buried her in the cotton fields near the old railroad Hands torn up from the snow My mother said my sister would always hold my hand In cattle trucks they stole us from our homes in Tarnopol To Siberia we'd go My uncle worked until he was a wick out in the cold They weren't human no more In '41 I fled to join the army of our own With only the clothes that I had on I arrived near river Volga, there were people just like me With their sons and daughters From the port of Krasnovodsk we all boarded for Iran And on the sands, I cried Mother, I will fight on for the place that is our home For our freedom and yours In Iraq and Palestine, we were trained out in the sun And then we headed to Cairo We joined the Eighth Army for the British wanted Rome And we wanted our home Oh, please send me to Taranto with our mermaid Send me where you want I'll give my body and soul For our freedom and yours In the mires In the snow In the cold In my soul I hear their voices calling All calling I will fight I’ll stand tall, always But if I fall I pray to be saved from the dark Oh, I pray for the strength to go on The Chaplain gave communion in the rubble near the dawn Everything was gone The bodies on the ground they all looked just like me The monastery was taken and the red and white hung high St. Mary’s Call rang out I laid down on the poppies all drenched in our own blood Now I wonder what for? Somewhere in the darkness I can hear their voices call me A long, silent, empty sound And I hear it all through the night From the place I never can go back In the ruins of Cassino I can hear that bugle sound On somebody else’s land All the ones stolen from homes For our freedom and yours All the ones with nowhere to go For our freedom and yours With the sacred call in our hearts For our freedom and yours Oh, I'll fight onto Bologna with these men all by my side For God, Honour and Homeland All the poppies drenched in our blood For our freedom and yours All the ones that never gave up For our freedom and yours Your names will always live on For our freedom and yours For our freedom and yours
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Angelina 11:10
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Angelina, there’s your smile Settle down, I ain’t lost Yeah, I know it’s been some time Send me away Say his name in vain But say it one last time Sometimes it takes a little while to know where you belong In the evening up the stairway of stone Families join the parade The footsteps I made as a child I can barely make now Your shining light My shadow quelled In this heavenly place Angelina, if you will Come wander with me tonight The old guard do that saltarello in Heroes’ Square La Sagra Laina E Ceci In my blood A fair awaits The food stall brawls sound where the mule track fades By the cross that sits on Fammera Our Lorenzo stands He sold his guitar for a piece of his own And while his family sleep He stands alone in the hallway And listens to the rain The sounds of the rain Sounds of the rain Sounds of the rain Sounds of the rain Sounds of the rain Sounds of the rain Sounds of the rain Angelina, little Marco dances round and round and round and round Meanwhile in the church of Correano Maria breaks down in the nave His footsteps on the marble Ring like the bell off the fresco walls Every time I lay my head down It wrangles my soul The pinewood sky hides time in its silhouette arms It masquerades in silence, freezing the ground we’ve settled upon I drifted in on a summer’s day A vision I tried to steal I couldn’t shake it And when I left, I really thought that you'd be still singing the same song to me as a child Tell me, Angelina Your merciful eyes If I were brave enough to look at my own face You’d never be in doubt For all the nights that are bygone For the moments found And the horror that entails Angelina, say it one last time For I am home Angelina Angelina Up the side of the mountain Where the mule track fades Through the heather Through the evergreen Through the beech trees All the way up Fammera Where the buzzards fly and the falcons fly Over the Tyrrhenian Sea All the way to the sea I wanna fade with the mist Into the sea Fade with the mist Into the sea Into the sea All the things I wish I'd always known All the things I wish I'd always known All the things I wish I'd always known All the things I wish I'd always known All the things I wish I'd always known All the things I wish I'd always known All the things I wish I'd always known All the things I wish I'd always known I must let them go I must let them go I must let them go I must let them go
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Helpless 10:30
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As I try to bear the weight of my emotions Moonlight skies are burning and her eyes are so blue I wake up in the night There’s a stranger in my mind If I sin inside my dreams Does it make me mean? Oh, how I made you cry And I lie with the shame ‘Cause I made you pay Whatever you want Whatever you do I’m helpless for you These soft summer nights I spend all my life Surrounded by you I wish with all my heart That I could tell my dreams apart So I’d know which one was true At Lorenzo's there's a band Where the matadors all sway I risk it all to chance And take you in my arms But behind you there's a face I feel you close But I just, oh I just don’t know Oh darling, was that you? My darling, do you see it too? Whatever you want Whatever you do I’m helpless for you I escape up to the skies But, oh, the songbird cry It reminds me of you These secrets of my soul I can’t tame them anymore Please forgive me, my dear It’s beyond my control I find it oh so strange It’s funny what we do It’s like a game We play until we lose Find someone who is lost Somebody just like you To share your loneliness So they're not lonely too The weight, the weight, the weight, the weight of my emotions Moonlight skies are burning and her eyes are so blue I'm helpless for you I'm helpless for you I'm helpless for you I'm helpless for you
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La Giostra 09:08
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The newborn's fast asleep In the caravan ‘neath the whirlin’ carousel Florin will wash his clothes in the river And take the circus to Esperia the next day Davide, he’s on the music man For a song he hasn't heard since he was a child It echoes round the mountain cove Of where this little town belongs And do you search for something more? Something other than this? But what more could Oh, what more could be mine? Oh, could be mine? As we spin round again Nothing more could be mine Families play You know I find it hard to picture having one of my own My mother, my father, my brother, their love overwhelms me Oh, I’m scared it’s something I could only ever feign Sometimes I can't even, I can't even stand up straight Like every breath is one step closer to death I stand alone away from the festa And share all my secrets with Selvacava And do you search for something more? Something other than this? But what more could Oh, what more could be mine? Oh, could be mine? As we spin round again Nothing more could ever be mine The stars we sleep below Maybe they’re just best left alone As if I were to pluck one out of the sky Then nothing more could ever be found We're frozen by the carousel She's smiling, watching all the kids twirlin’ around Every time I try to reach out It always seems to slip away somehow
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Via Margherita 07:30
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The procession moves on to Ausonia Aria’s on the rooftops watching on Pina, I could never bring myself To ever be the one to call her down She would wear your high heeled boots Always put them on the wrong way ‘round You only see yourself getting older In the innocent eyes of a child And she’s up there hailing all the town passing by And I catch you hiding a little tear in your eye I don’t know why I always think about that time I wonder why oh baby, baby Why are these summer nights forever in my mind? They embrace me and they take me, take me Take me through alleyways of where I bared my soul When I was young, they saved me Now they break me Are you born to lose? Ask me all your questions I ain’t got your answers I just wanna see what stirs you inside You can choose Call it liberation Revel in the mystery Or harm the very soul that yearns to survive As the procession drifts away I’m by the olive tree in the garden where we played Outside my home Inside the walls that I know Empty rooms of our lives All the voices in the halls They rise then they fall Bye bye, oh, baby, goodbye All that was is now gone And I’ve stayed here far too long You’re outside watching on Do you remember I would meet you on a Saturday night? Your eyes would unveil as all the fireworks climbed Up the stone walls where I’d hide I saw you And now we’re all that’s left in the middle of the road With these spaces in between and just these memories that grow Have they changed or have they stayed the same In this world inside my head and my dreams? Oh, I’ve lived my life in this place that was my home And it ain’t here no more My angel cries, “Baby, baby Baby, there’s a world there in every step you take But you’ll miss it if you stay here Don’t wait here! Selvacava will always have your heart So go out and make a world of your own now” I stand alone in Margherita way I breathe in and I call out your name The echoes ring around these walls Each one a lifetime long They ring loud and then they fall I wait there ’til there’s one Giuseppina Darling, I'll be gone
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Remain 06:14
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about

I daydream a lot
Seemed to be obsessed with going over scenes in my head
Things that have happened
Things that haven’t
Hazy, liquid, moving images of how I would do things differently
Dreams of the future, wishes, secrets, confessions
A secret world which my mind would inhabit
that ran alongside this one

When the pandemic hit early last year it felt like the world had stopped
It stripped me of everything;
of my fears, constraints, time
I finally felt present in the moment
and not the passenger I feared I was becoming
I was left with just my piano, guitar and myself in my bedroom
and these daydreams

Selvacava is a little village in central Italy near to where my family live
Monte Fammera watches over
Every year I went there
nothing changed
It was a haven in my mind and outside
A place that I could regularly revisit
where everything stayed the same

Eventually, as we grow older, things do change,
and I was left with these memories of love and loss,
of nights that never ended,
of people no longer with us
of all the times I was not able to revisit in person,
but only in the mind

As I got further away from these moments,
My memories did too
Visions, fantasies, wishes, dreams, lies
All of the things that resided in my daydreams
began to melt into each other
I was no longer sure which ones were which

Everything that was close to my heart,
all the moments I held so dear,
all that I was so sure of after all this time
Maybe it was all something completely different
Maybe it was never there in the first place

And it’s that collision of magic and matter that became this album

For a long time I think I was stuck in a daydream
One that consumed my whole being
And I guess this is what this album is about
Leaving the things that can’t be revisited
and letting them go

If I had never got these visions out of my mind
I think it would have haunted me for as long as I lived

This isn’t the easiest of listens but I think it’s as true as I’ve ever written.

credits

released April 30, 2021

All songs written by Luke Papini ©2021, Luke Papini

Performed by:
Luke Papini - vocals, guitar (acoustic & electric),
keys/synths & string parts
Tom Willmott - guitar (acoustic, electric & nylon),
ukelele & backing vocals
Sam Weston - bass (electric & double) & backing vocals
Ross Gordon - drums, percussion, drum parts & backing
vocals
Rob Kitney - saxophones (soprano & tenor), nylon guitar
& mandolin
Matt Scarterfield - trumpets
Ana Martins - Giuseppina

Recorded variously at:
A tent in Luke’s bedroom, the attic and living room
Tom Willmott’s shared studio somewhere in
Farnborough
Ross Gordon’s conservatory and living room
Rob’s house
Matt’s house
Beppe’s Cafe, London
A tent in Ana and Mark’s old house

Produced and mixed by Luke Papini
Mastered by Andy Fernihough at 3rd Planet, Liverpool

Heavy Rhino Records

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