PROSPETTIVA - How Perspective was born

I was still working on the song “Melancholia” when, while playing the guitar, I found myself doing a sequence of chords that sounded good to me. I took note of them and I recorded the rhythm to keep them in mind, sure that sooner or later they would be useful. A few weeks later they became the chords and the rhythm of PERSPECTIVA’s verses.

The lyrics saw the light a few days later and to deeply understand their meaning, I will tell you the context I was in at that time. In November 2013 I had just completed 4 rounds of the immunotherapy started after the failure of the traditional chemiotherapy. In mid-December the outcome of the brain NMR was one of the most beautiful Christmas gifts for me and for all the people who were next to me at that time: partial response! The metastasis was shrinking, if compared to the previous NMR, so the immunotherapy seemed to be working. The light was turning on again, opening new perspectives for the future. The following weeks, until that day of the end of January 2014 when the fog began to drop on my left eye, were a sort of rebirth after eight months in which nothing seemed to stop the growth of the invasive travel buddy I was and I am still bringing within me.

PROSPETTIVA was born thanks to the emotional turmoil I was living in those days. The possibility to have another long term chance led me to think about how I could be a better person thanks to the experiences I was living, and which person I wanted to be in my new future with the objective of staying better with myself and with the people I loved. To do this, it was necessary to look at myself with new eyes and from different perspectives to find areas of improvement, to make emerge unexplored areas of myself.

Perspective is just this and nothing more, it is the way I was looking for my new myself I wanted to be, as much as possible ready for and adequate to the new chance that life was offering me at that time.

PROSPETTIVA - PERSPECTIVE

English translation - Lyrics and music by C. Ferla 2014

Do you think at what you’ve lost or...
do you think at what one day you could find?
Do you think at a tomorrow like yesterday or...
do you think at a tomorrow when born again?

Do you want to be somebody different or...
do you want to go on being a copy of the past?
Do you want to show the real yourself or...
do you want go on being always masked?

Observe yourself from a side, and then from the other side
Observe yourself from inside, and then from high above
And never ever stop looking for
The perspective that could change yourself
And never ever stop looking for
The perspective that could change yourself

Give back love to those who love you
Give back friendship to those who have always been next to you
To all the others nothing has to be given but respect
Except yourself, to whom you have to give more trust and love

Observe yourself from a side, and then from the other side
Observe yourself from inside, and then from high above
And never ever stop looking for
The perspective that could change yourself
And never ever stop looking for
The perspective that could change yourself

Don’t give up your journey
Don’t believe that everything is already written
It’s inside you the strength to shape
The future to restart from

Observe yourself from a side, and then from the other side
Observe yourself from inside, and then from high above
And never ever stop looking for
The perspective that could change yourself
And never ever stop looking for
The perspective that could change yourself