In collaboration with Filomena D’Andrea as MAKARDÌA
A song of resistance.
Words: Filomena D’Andrea
Voice: Angela Paolantonio
Sound: Renato Celano
Art: Giovanni Spiniello
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I DON'T WAVE SOVEREIGN STATES
I don't wave sovereign states
Because their flags stink of blood
Because history is full of errors
And not divided into bad and good.
I don't raise border stakes
They’ve colored them to fool the children
Some try to cross the sea again
Hoping to avoid a military line
I want to raise my fist with a thousand others
I want to take to the streets like a thousand and one stars
Because no man is born to be killed
Because bread is made to be broken
I want to raise the rainbow flag
The drawings of the children, an olive branch
Because they taught me that we are equal and free
We live everywhere and there is no king or queen
That we are not divided into black and white
In Christians, Muslims or Jews
That my children are of the world
And the children of the world are mine too
That war is a horror
Yesterday today and tomorrow
As for the powerful
Who steal bread
Take off your military shirt
And hat from your head
We are the deserters
We are thirsty for spring
We are the deserters
Of this long evening
by FILOMENA D'ANDREA
