taste of salt (1963 - Gino Paoli)
flavor with salt, to taste sea
you have on your skin, you on the lips when
out the water and lie down
you come near me, near me.
flavor with salt, to taste sea
taste a bit 'bitter things lost
of things left far away from us
where the world is different, different from here.
time and days that pass
lazy and leave in the mouth the taste of salt
you jump in the water and let me look at you
and remain alone in the sand and sun.
Then come back and let yourself fall near
well in the sand and into my arms while I kiss
and
taste of salt taste of the sea, the taste of you.
Written in the wake of the scandalous and passionate love affair with Stefania Sandrelli, then a minor, "A Taste of salt "was proposed to Cantagiro of 1963 where he earned a fourth place, followed an extraordinary success. At the top of the charts with an incredible number of copies sold, the song was played in all the beaches and dance floors, and has remained in 'collective imagination the soundtrack of the sixties summers. Arranged by Ennio Morricone, with Gato Barbieri on sax, the song has an extraordinary impact on the balanced combination of text and music. Melodica yet rhythmic, "A Taste of Salt" is rendered unique by 'interpretation sensual, slow, almost lazy to Paoli. The explosion took the artist's success at a difficult time for private life, complicated by the scandal of adultery while his wife was waiting il primo figlio: Paoli si sparò una pallottola nel cuore, che lo mancò per poco e che i medici decisero di non estrarre perché troppo rischioso. Ancora oggi il cantautore porta, a pochi centimetri dal proprio cuore, il ricordo di quel momento.
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