ALMOST A WORD (m.lombardi-c.a.fioramonti)

MAP Edizioni Musicali

From the cd SO APRIL HEARTED (MAP, 2008)

Was it the light breeze of May? / Were your lips about to pray? / I can tell / A whispering came my way / Though you’re silent / It was almost / a word / that you said. / Did a flower loudly bloom / From the silence of your lonely room? / Wide awake / Maybe daydreams of you made me hear / What my wishful thinking / Makes up whenever you’re near me, / Near me… / Say it loud / Don’t try to be smart / I’m sure I’ve heard it / I can’t ignore it / ‘Cause it might be the voice of your heart. / Will your longing find the way? / Is it too hard to convey? / Hold my hand / There’s nothing I’m dreaming of / You’re so real / and your heartbeat’s a true word of love.

BACK HOME (m.lombardi-c.a.fioramonti)

MAP Edizioni Musicali

From the cd SO APRIL HEARTED (MAP, 2008)

A cold and rainy night / A broken neon light / The smell of saltiness / Of the sea air, of the tears I can’t hold back / Your temperature went down. / This foreign town / Will be far away / When you’ll be on your plane / Someone needs you back home / Let me freeze this moment in time now. / Under these skies of grey / Illusions fade away / If loving you is wrong / Guess I’ll be right / or you might hear my heart break. / Out of sight, out of mind / I hear them saying. / This little fool will be / Waiting for you, praying.

Though you just make believe, / Everytime you fold your hands around my face / How can I resign /You can’t be mine / Everything must end / Then why should you pretend? / So we better call it a day. / A closing hotel door / No use to cry / for more / Yet I still need your skin / For a moment I wish I could call you love / There’s no guilt or shame, / We’re just the same / Grateful touching souls / And wild inspiration / Still she needs you more than me / Back home.

ON YOUR WINGS (for Trane) (m.lombardi-n.gori)

MAP Edizioni Musicali

From the cd SO APRIL HEARTED (MAP, 2008)

On your wings / let me hide away / And hop a flight to / anywhere / but here / I’ll release my fears / Icy mountains / And oceans of green and deep blue / Hold me in your warmest embrace / When we met, on a foreign crowded avenue, / My senses con-centrated on you

No one ever taught me how to give / And to unfold this beauty within / Since you came my passion always wins / So I’ll never give up / flying on your wings / ‘Till I reach your Love supreme / Even though you’re too far gone / Strains of you remain / Like a distant call, a far away blue train / Can’t keep it all in my heart / Gotta sing out loud you gave it a start / When you whisper / that’s when I know / You let your spirit flow so sweet / Then I’m back on my feet / Lighter than a feather, / bright and sunny, warm as the weather /

No matter what the future may bring about / If I can call on your music, I’ll get by /

You know why? / ‘Cause the healing you pour out when you blow / into your saxophone / reaches out for me, dear / And all I’m left to do is wait and see / Come to me / Can we be that close? / I want you to know, the passage of your soul / Makes life worth living / A new day now is dawning / on this old town / and you’re here beside me / And everything is new, if I’m no longer blue / I owe it all to you, just to you/ I lay my head on your shoulder, then / I close my eyes and feel this time is for real / Like a child, I want to believe it’s true / All the Sweetness / and the Wisdom / of all things appear / as long as I lift my heart on / Your wings.

WE MAY NEVER MEET AGAIN (m.lombardi-c.a.fioramonti)

MAP Edizioni Musicali

From the cd SO APRIL HEARTED (MAP, 2008)

You walked in from the glass door / You’ve been here before / And you’re looking so sure

When my heart claims it’s no longer safe / Oh I’d better be running away

Still I wait ‘til you sit down / Eyes enquiring / Why should I let them in

When my head’s running for my defence / Since those eyes belong to someone else

But there’s a lock of your hair / Ruffled, sticking to your temple, and I wish

I could run / my fingers on your cheek, / comb it back and slide my hand upon your face

In your car, on my way home / Strains of Bix and Cole / There’ll be no leading role

For me to play, the night’s gone / For all / we know, / we may never meet again…

But there’s a look in your eyes / Telling me there’s some cleft / I could break a-through, tonight /

We’ll surely keep in touch / Still somehow / I’ll never touch your soul this way.

WHEN I FIRST SAW YOU THERE (m.lombardi-p.g.frassi)

MAP Edizioni Musicali

From the cd SO APRIL HEARTED (MAP, 2008)

I didn’t know about your eyes / When I first saw you there. / You came to me with no disguise / Your blue beyond compare / Lit the room / And everyone around / Would disappear from view / All at once I could only see / You. / Blindfold, my heart could not see yours, / And so afraid to feel / It took me the second time around / To realize you’re real / Close and beautiful, / And past love wounds / Are just a fainted memory / Your grace could heal. / Now I know I couldn’t live / Without all the thrills you give / My life has been so unfair / ‘Till I first saw you there. Since I knew fortune favours fools / I came along to hear you play / After your music cast a spell / I felt you getting near / Fortune smiled / We’re seeing eye to eye / And my still waters ran so deep and wide. / Now it sure is plain to see / All of you belongs to me / We’ve got so much love to share / Since I first saw you there.

THE COLOUR OF YOU (m.lombardi-p.g.frassi)

MAP Edizioni Musicali

From the cd SO APRIL HEARTED (MAP, 2008)

You came out of the blue / And by the time the roses shed / Their petals down on the ground / You’re nowhere / To be found / Still your scent is floating around. / «Cross my heart and hope to die» / You said you’d tell me no lie / But then a season ago / Yesses turned into no / You left me here alone with my mood indigo. / So chesty on the green / But yellow on the phone / When love was through. / Before our flame / Did faint / You’d paint / the town red with me / Now I see / That blue / Is the colour of you. / No reason to fear / This funny carousel of time / When orange flowers will bloom / You might stare at the moon / Wishing I was there / There again with you / In your lonely room.

THINGS I LEFT BEHIND (m.lombardi-n.gori)

Doublestroke Edizioni Musicali

From the cd SO APRIL HEARTED (MAP, 2008)

Hopes in the eyes of a little child / Keeping my soft hands open wide / These are some of the things I left behind / Alone here I still recall. /Here at night while I’m waiting for you / I wonder if / I will ever learn / that dreams never come true / Still I keep standing here / just like a fool. / His lips on my brow when he held me close / Unfolding my heart just like a rose / Are some of the things I left behind / Still I wish, dear, / we could play this game again. / It may not be you, yet I’m sure somehow/ I’ll be loved again / ‘cause I know by now / There’s so many things / So many things I’ve yet to find / So one fine day I will play this game again.