MELANCHOLIA - How it was born

It was a cold winter evening of the end of December, I was at home and I had just finished watching an episode of a famous American criminal series where the inspectors find new evidences which permit them to reopen unresolved murders since a lot of years. The episode closure structure is always more or less the same, the case is closed, the murderer goes to jail and the other protagonists of the movie, murdered included, finally find their peace.

I stood up to drink a bit of water and, from some remote drawer in my mind, a refrain came out starting with a “All my dreams have passed by…” and I started singing and completing it. After a few attempts, the first refrain was born, and with it, the melody. I took the mobile phone and I used it to record it.

During the Christmas holidays I finished the lyrics and then, with the guitar, I composed the music. This is how Melancholia saw the light.

The song title, useless to say, it’s a wordplay which uses the assonance between Melancholia and Melanoma, it sounded perfectly for the song meaning I had in my mind.

Why did I write it in English? Because it’s how it came out, not a willing choice but just the way inspiration came out in that moment, exactly as it happened for all the other songs.

This week you should be patient and just have a look at the lyrics, but I hope in the next days to recover a bit more of breath to record a video and to be live on YouTube next weekend!
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MELANCHOLIA

Lyrics and music by C. Ferla 2014

All my dreams have passed by
And I know it’s not tonight
That a new dream will come by
And I’m afraid I’ve lost my time

What I passed throughout my life
What I went through all the nights
What I’ve got during the days
Everything is lost and gone away

This is not the time for melancholia
This is the time to keep on pushing
And don’t let your thoughts bend you down
Just raise your head up to the sun
Just raise your head up to the sun
Just raise your head up to the sun

I don’t want to go on hiding
Behind a me I do not know
‘cause all the things I’ve made wrong
I cannot self forgive
 

If I ever have another chance
Will I deserve this new one?
Or I will loose my last train
And there we’ll be no other way

This is not the time for melancholia
This is the time to keep on pushing
And don’t let your thoughts bend you down
Just raise your head up to the sun
Just raise your head up to the sun
Just raise your head up to the sun
 

But I want another trial
To show myself I’m not a liar
That I deserve more time
To make my life worth for a while
 

This is not the time for melancholia
This is the time to keep on pushing
And don’t let your thoughts bend you down
Just raise your head up to the sun
And kick Melancholia ass up to the sky
And kick Melancholia ass up to the sky
 

All my dreams have passed by
But I believe that if not tonight
A new dream will comes by
And I’ll wait it night after night