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Love Life Sentence

from Poema by Romina Di Gasbarro

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A little Italian opera inside your domestic groove.

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He’s gonna take his mother’s name
Things are never gonna be the same
He’s gonna stand up to that man
He's gonna t ake his place, gonna take a stand
Brothers, sisters don’t approve
One of his erratic moves
Just another debut.

He’s gonna be his father’s son
Hard to care for anyone
Build him a statue of glittering gold
He says, “What about me? I’m so all alone!”
Give him your love and it’s not enough
Give him your life and he’ll rough it up
Make that good boy tough.

Don’t they make a beautiful pair?
Can’t you see them both just standing there?
With her long, white gown
Spinning round and round
There’ll be flowers, and tear drops
And love songs and diamonds,
Just in case.

He’s gonna be a good woman’s man
Have the whole world in his hand
Stroke her brow with a mother’s touch
Break her down so he can be her crutch
Hold her high so she can see
All that she won’t ever be
If she doesn’t break free.

Can’t deside to go or stay
Can’t remember to blame
Are things gonna stay the same
Maybe people can really change
All the things you must deny
To look yourself back in the eye
He gonna make you tell lies!

It’s the theme of a beautiful life
With love and danger intertwined
All the blurry lines that once defined
Between love, duty, wrong and right.

Ridi Pagliaccio
Sul tuo amor infranto
Ridi del duol
Che t’avelena il cor…

Father, father be our guide
Be our leader be our pride
It’s a contorted love affair
The more he hurts, the more she cares
He won’t kill her in the litteral sense
He’ll just scare her half to death…
It’s a love-life sentence.

All Lyrics and Music by Romina Di Gasbarro
© 2010 Romina Di Gasbarro (SOCAN) (except excerpt from Pagliacci aria, Vesti la giubba by Ruggero Leoncavallo.)

credits

from Poema, released June 15, 2010
Romina Di Gasbarro - voice, guitar, songwriter, arranger
David Occhipinti - guitar
Andrew Downing - double bass, cello
Jean Martin - drums
Aisslinn Nosky - violin
Karen Moffatt - viola
Franesco Pellegrino - tenor voice

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Romina Di Gasbarro Toronto, Ontario

Singer, songwriter, guitarist - Romina’s music is old-world, new-world and somewhere in between. A unique voice in songwriting, this artist defies categorization remaining dedicated to her own ideas of beauty. Romina's solo discography includes, Little Rome (EP, 2004), Poema (2010), and Risorgimento (2018). ... more

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