Storia Del Mio Corpo Lyrics in English Michele Bravi

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Verse 1
My body wears a story of fear
And I see it clearly in every gesture
Like when I stopped talking
In the exact way you turn off a tap
My body has a story that recurs
And I listen to it as I look at an open window
I left it motionless in bed, motionless inside
Like in an envelope of a letter
And I dressed it every day in a different way
And then I got used to living through it
Prechorus 1
And I heard it yell, 'live me, live me, live me
Please burn me like matches.'
My eyes are so absent
That you tell me: 'you almost don't exist'
My eyes are so lost
Like tossing two coins by chance into a meadow
Chorus 1
Small movements
The vague perception of a life outside
Let me know if you hear me, you see me
Call my name loudly
Do something extreme
Or I'll make the mistake again
Staying hidden in my body
Staying hidden
Verse 2
My body is a house I carry on myself
On the walls is written what happened
I threw it over an armchair carelessly
As if it were another person's
And I stripped it and gave it to the wind like a flag
I opened it and closed it like it had a zipper behind it
Prechorus 2
And I heard it yell, 'live me, live me, live me
Please burn me like matches.'
My eyes are so absent
That you tell me: 'you almost don't exist'
My eyes are so lost
Like tossing two coins by chance into a meadow
Chorus 2
Small movements
The vague perception of a life outside
Let me know if you hear me, you see me
Call my name loudly
Do something extreme
Or I'll make the mistake again
Staying hidden in my body
Staying hidden
Staying hidden in my body
Staying hidden
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Francesco Catita, Federica Camba, Michele Bravi
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In the song, the lyrics

"Storia del mio corpo" ("Story of My Body") is Michele Bravi's reflection on the uneasy relationship between a person and their own body.

He treats his body almost like an object apart from himself: something he dresses, sets aside on a chair, or folds up like a letter in an envelope. It carries a story of fear that keeps resurfacing no matter how he tries to put it down.

At the emotional center of the song, his body cries out to be lived in fully, to be seen and called by name. But the chorus keeps pulling back to the same instinct: to stay hidden inside it rather than let anyone in.

It's a song about the distance we can feel from ourselves, and how hard it is to break the habit of hiding, even when a part of us is begging to be noticed.

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