It's an inspiring night, a night that calls out to the wood
It's a spying night, a night of eyes on me
Of memories barking as if they'd seen the devil
I'm digging in me so deep, oil is coming out
It's my initiation, but I have no needles in me 1
I'm going from "mea culpa" to "ego me absolvo" 2
I'm a larva, dirty because of the world
I'm like Manolo on that log, I might tumble down 3
And everything is going to be brand new, like a baby with his belly up
After my passage from the belly to the air 4
My eyes popped out from the head, Lamia 5
I'm almost jumping out of my skin, mama
Out of me, exuvia 6
Spreading my wings, au revoir 7
Another chance? Forget it
I'm on a level playing field with my age
Withered pasts,8 melted like Dalí's clocks 9
Parasite pasts, parasites, hungry for myself, cannibals
Exuvia
Exuvia
Look at the video I've made, I look and sound like someone else
The colours of my self-portrait are in an eternal contrast
I took my own space, but I let the time pass by
I change a lot, so call me "coach" now 10
I'm still at the driving wheel, I keep my foot off that brake
Even if I'm always living on the backseat
What once was I already sacked it
I regularly make false starts
I don't forget roots because I care for my roots
But I'll get back there when they'll bury me
All my doubts have bad manners
They're invasive and they're too many
The secret is doing like a tree:
First you grow, then you cut off 11
What's pushing you beyond that threshold?
If it's not boredom, it must be your pain
It's a good chance to go somewhere else, like outside
Out of me, exuvia
Spreading my wings, au revoir
Another chance? Forget it
I'm on a level playing field with my age
Withered pasts, melted like Dalí's clocks
Parasite pasts, parasites, hungry for myself, cannibals
Exuvia
Undergoing the ritual, I obey
As if it were a subordinate's ritual 12
And I start singing my new record
Just like these cicadas from the brushwood
Undergoing the ritual, I obey
As if it were a subordinate's ritual
And I start singing my new record
Just like these cicadas from the brushwood
Exuvia
1. a reference to those initiation rituals where the initiates are pierced with needles.2. two Latin expression, coming from Christian religion, which respectively translate as "my fault" (used to admit one's sin) and "I absolve myself" (parody of the expression "ego te absolvo", "I absolve you", used by Catholic priests at the end of the confession sacrament).3. "Manolo" is the nickname of Maurizio Zanolla, an Italian free climber.4. pun on the expression "pancia all'aria" ("belly up to the air", meaning "supine"). Babies usually sleep on their back. The pun is on the fact that birth can be described as passing from the "belly" (of one's mother) to the "air" of the outside world.5. Lamia, according to Greek mythology, was a beautiful woman. Zeus fell in love with her, and Hera, out of jealousy, took away her sleep. Zeus tried to compensate for that by giving her the ability of removing her eyes. The reference is to the idiom "to have the eyes popped out from the head", meaning "to be shocked".6. Exuviae are the remains left by certain insects and other animals after the moult. It has been chosen by Caparezza as a symbol of his transition to a new style.7. French for "goodbye".8. pun on "passati" ("pasts"), "appassiti" ("withered") and "parassiti" ("parasite", both as adjective and noun, used in the following verses), three words that sound alike in Italian.9. the word "appassiti" gives the idea of something flaccid, as some fruits when they're not edible anymore. The reference is to the "melted clocks" from the famous painting by Salvador Dalí, "The persistence of memory".10. "Cambio" ("[ex]change") is used to indicate the substitution of two players during a football match. In Italian, the English word "mister" is used to refer to football coaches since 1912, when the English coach William Garbutt was appointed to Genoa C.F.C. It was still quite uncommon to have foreigners as players or coaches, so people were so fascinated by him that they'd call him "mister Garbutt", to emphasize his origins. The word "mister" then turned out so popular it became a synonym of the Italian term "allenatore".11. pun on the words "cerchi" and "tronchi", which respectively mean "(tree) rings" and "logs", but they're also two verbs: "you search" and "you cut off (with something or someone)".12. pun on the two meanings of the word "sottoposto": "underwent" and "subordinate".