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The part of the wrong is the second extracted from Thirteen urgent songsthe new album by Vinicio Capossela out on April 21st. After The Children’s Crusadethe first song released on February 24, Capossela restarts from a Brecht’s aphorism (“We sat on the wrong side as all other seats were taken”) to denounce the short-circuit of values in which our society finds itself when a manifest phrase of a certain political affiliation is used by the opposing faction and reversed in meaning in favor of the easy search for consensus: “Today’s politics has stopped providing visions utopias, forms of eternal life, ideas of the future and of becoming. Now it is mirrored and lowered to the individual, to his very narrow field of action –Capossela explains– sand Brecht could say that «since the good seats were filled, we sat on the wrong side», now the wrong is no longer the prerogative of the forces fighting for freedom. The left, by giving up the role of defense of workers, those without rights and the least that it would have had, has left the field free to forces that have also taken the wrong part and, by fomenting fear of others, have led to a drift in which wrong is above all wrong against the sense of humanity. The part of the wrong, proudly claimed today by the right, is now the one in which we have all put ourselves, in a struggle of mere opposition that nullifies and neutralizes the very concept of “the part of the right”.
In the air from western duel that permeates Capossela’s song, the needs of the least have been transformed into fear of the other, legitimizing “the basest instincts, the law of the strongest, racism and all forms of discrimination in the name of the majority and of the nation”. Therefore, there are no longer clear categories, everything is reduced to a game of roles, an indefinite Us against you which makes you lose sight of which side is right. Consistently with the unfolding of the text, in the piece electric guitars, percussions, timpani, celestial, choirs and harmonium combine to create a western film trend, for a scene that is almost a showdown: “it is frontier music where the only frontier that is broken is the moral one”.
THE TEXT
You who of you
you say you are better
You who of you
you say more civilized
You that from you
you dress up with culture
We who of us, reward fear
Out of fear of the other we will take you with us
On the wrong side
Neither right nor left
Purchasing power only
we will be your mirror
on the side of the wrong
You complexists, pacifists
you holy ecologists
we will get you
Even the part of the wrong
Wrong against wrong
There is no part of the right
Wrong against wrong
There is no part of the right
We who from us, from now on
We won’t fail again
We who by us and for you
We will abolish ignorance
Us who from us of the school
we’ll take the shortcut
We that for you
we will free you
of all constraints and boredom
And if you are racist
and if you’re sexist,
what’s the problem?
on the side of the wrong
Detached and ignorant
selfish, opportunistic
everyone with a happy heart
on the side of the wrong
All ugly and sincere
when we will be many
how true we will be
on the side of the wrong
As long as we are many
As long as we are all
As long as we are many
As long as we are all
Part of the wrong
all part of the wrong
all part of the wrong
The cultural effort
which you say is to be done
we take it away
indeed, better we tell you
that it is useless to think about it
You are already so beautiful
Yes just like this,
all low instinct,
in the law of the strongest
there is no part of the wrong
Neither expertise or science
Nor good conscience
the spirit of the fatherland is resurrected
on the side of the wrong
You do-gooders, you lefties
newborn optimists
you are more sincere
in the wrong
All you nihilists
you sad passions
We got you
Even the part of the wrong
As long as we are many
As long as we are all
As long as we are many
As long as we are all
Part of the wrong
all part of the wrong
all part of the wrong
Wrong against wrong
There is no part of the right
Wrong against wrong
There is no part of the right
There is no part of the right
All part of the wrong
There is no part of the right
All part of the wrong
There is no part of the right
Source-tg24.sky.it