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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