Silvio Vinci

NOTHING ELSE Silvio Vinci Your coat is on the kitchen chair, you said you wouldn’t stay. The coffee’s cold; you leave it there, I put my phone away. We used to fill this room with plans. Now all I want is where I am. Let the whole world talk, let it wear itself out. Come a little closer, we can turn it down. No more grand designs, no one to impress. Your hand resting in mine— I need nothing else....

MILLER (reworking of original instrumental track by Silvio Vinci ) Captain Miller, seal the doors, Earth is bleeding through the floor. One hundred women cleared to fly, You’re the only man inside. Set the engines, count to ten— Point this burning ship at Mars again. Red dust, electric sky, Take our fever, let it rise. Let the engines drown the sound Of the world we’re leaving now. Chosen from a m...

MILLER (reworking of original instrumental track by Silvio Vinci) Captain Miller, seal the doors, Earth is bleeding through the floor. One hundred women cleared to fly, You’re the only man inside. Set the engines, count to ten— Point this burning ship at Mars again. Red dust, electric sky, Take our fever, let it rise. Let the engines drown the sound Of the world we’re leaving now. Chosen from a mi...

ROOM FOR TWO (by Silvio Vinci) Your old coat behind the door, Still a ticket in the sleeve From the night we missed the train And forgot we had to leave. Funny what the small things keep… When the rest has slipped away. I took pictures off the wall, Let the daylight fill the room. Put the records in a box, Kept the one I played for you. Leave a little room for me Leave a little room for me In the...

STAY A LITTLE LONGER (by Silvio Vinci) [Verse 1] You put your coat on half past ten, Then took it off and stayed again. The taxi waited down below, You waved it on and let it go. [Pre-Chorus] We always make a perfect plan, Then change it any way we can. [Chorus] Stay a little longer, Let the coffee go cold. Put your favourite record on, The one we both wore out. We can leave on Monday, We can chan...

WE TRUST (reworking of original instrumental track, In prog we trust, by Silvio Vinci) They sold tomorrow by the pound, We queued around the square. I bought an hour without a sound And spent it standing there. The man behind the counter smiled, “Your change is on its way.” He counted out my younger years And called it one more day. I want the time they couldn’t sell, The hour that never rang a be...

The shutters rattle in the rain, A train goes through and back again. They’ve put the cinema up for sale, The “coming soon” sign’s turning pale. You wear your father’s Sunday coat, I’ve got a tune caught in my throat. They call this place a ghost town now— We’ve got to wake it up somehow. Turn it up and let it run, We’re too young to come undone. Let the whole street hear that sound— We’re still h...

The city breathes through silver lungs, Its windows never open. I keep a forest on my tongue, A word I haven’t spoken. Above the roofs, a pale sun turns Behind a veil of wire. I touch the glass until it burns And dream the sky is fire. Let the air come rolling in, Break the seal and touch my skin. I have been away so long— I have been away so long— Give me breath to carry on. The planets turn like...

HOLD YOUR BREATH AND PRAY (reworking of instrumental track by Silvio Vinci) We took the seeds, we took the rain, We left the bells to ring. A thousand years inside a grain, And no returning spring. The windows filled with violet fire, The coast slipped out of sight. I watched the last cathedral spire Dissolve into the night. Carry me beyond the blue, Past the reach of yesterday. If there’s nothing...

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KAYLA CALLS SETH & JESSI TO SING A BALLAD IN G (by Silvio Vinci) Kayla called at half past nine, “Come on over, stay a while.” Seth came in with his guitar, Jessi with a weary smile. Coats were draped across the chairs, There were things we couldn’t say. Then a chord broke through the quiet, And we let it lead the way. Leave a little light for me, Let your voice come close to mine. If the words wo...

THE SPARE KEY by Silvio Vinci Your spare key’s lying By the kitchen phone. Funny how this old place Feels bigger on my own. Pale patch on the wallpaper Where our picture used to hang. This room’s got an echo— I taught the walls to sing. Let it roll, let it ride, Let that old floor shake. I gave you all my good years— That’s all you’re gonna take. Your headlights crossed my window, Then they slippe...

ANXIETY (reworking) [Verse 1 — tense, half-spoken] My shoes know the distance From the bed to the door. I’ve done a hundred miles On a ten-foot floor. TV talking To an empty chair. I kill the sound— But it’s still in the air. [Chorus — shouted] WHO LET YOU IN? WHO GAVE YOU A KEY? You wear my face, But you don’t speak for me! [Verse 2 — clipped, restless] I laugh too soon. I talk too fast. I answer...

LOOSE CHANGE (reworking of original instrumental track, February Blues, By Silvio Vinci) Change in the lining Of a second-hand coat. A man by the station Bending one blue note. Rain on the pavement, Nobody stops. I drop a little silver In his paper cup. Play a little longer, Let the whole street sway. All the things I thought I needed Sound so far away. (So far away…) He says, “Pick a number.” I s...

CANDLE BIT (reworking of original instrumental track by Silvio Vinci) Wax upon the windowsill, Your shoes beneath my chair. The record’s down to one last groove, We leave it turning there. A little less forever, A little more tonight. You don’t have to promise— Just lean into the light. You laugh about the coat I wore The night we missed the train. I say it wasn’t half that bad; You laugh at me ag...

BLACK DIRT & BORROWED TIME (reworking of original instrumental track by Silvio Vinci) [Verse 1] Daddy left a tractor And a note he couldn’t pay. I can get that motor talking, Can’t make the bank go away. [Chorus] Roll on, muddy water, Go on, have your say. You can take another acre, But you won’t take me away. [Verse 2] Her dress behind the kitchen door Still smells of last July. She said she’d le...

BODAL (reworking of instrumental track, Bodales, by Silvio Vinci) He wears his Sunday shoes on Tuesday Takes the long way home Reads the news without believing Anything at all Cheap perfume A plastic chair Someone laughing Nobody there Come on, come on You know the game Change your face Forget your name Bodal! Where you gonna go? Bodal! Everybody knows You can paint it black You can paint it gold...

EVERYBODY’S FINE (reworking of original instrumental track, Blur Like, by Silvio Vinci) Billy bought another car Never gets him very far Jenny’s standing in the rain Waiting for the world to change Monday morning Half past nine Nothing’s wrong Everybody’s fine Here we are Here we go Everybody knows But nobody knows… [Chorus] Everybody’s fine Everybody’s alright Living for the weekend Sleeping thro...

WHEN THE MORNING FINDS ME (reworking from instrumental track By Silvio Vinci) I’ve been walking with the shadows, I’ve been talking to the rain, trying to find a little meaning in the middle of the pain. There were nights I kept on running with nowhere left to go, but something in the distance kept saying, take it slow. And I don’t need an answer, I don’t need to understand, I just need a little m...

DEFINITELY TWO CHORDS Verse 1 You came in talking like you knew the score, I played one chord then I gave you one more. No complications, nothing to explain, just a little fire running through the vein. Chorus Two chords — that’s all I need. One for the hunger, one for the speed. Round and round, let the rhythm decide. No destination, just enjoy the ride. Verse 2 Some people need a thousand ways t...

I left the window open, just to hear the rain, falling on the rooftops and disappearing again. Your book is on the table, your coat is on the chair, funny how an empty room can still believe you’re there. And all the things we never said are somewhere in between, the life we thought we’d live and the life we’ve really seen. Morning finds the curtains, light moves on the floor, I don’t ask the old...

AUSSIE (reworking of instrumental track by Silvio Vinci) Red dust on the window, sun melting on the road, a radio keeps talking in a language no one knows. Black birds draw a circle, high above the plain, I swear I saw the mountains slowly breathing in the rain. Ride where the sky bends, far beyond the line, leave your name behind you, leave your hands in mine. Stars fall through the dashboard, th...

NASSA GROOVE (reworking of original jam session with Stefano Muzzu at Guitar) Down by the water, quarter past two, moon on the harbor, nothing was true. Bass from a doorway, smoke in the air, I followed the rhythm and nobody cared. One way in, no way back, feet on the sand, heart off the track. Boats in the darkness, lights moving slow, somewhere beneath me the deep waters flow. I came for the mus...

BUT THEY WILL BE ANTIBODIES? (reworking of instrumental original track by Silvio Vinci) We crossed the line of Saturn with a whisper in the wire, the stars were turning backwards, the moon was breathing fire. Something moved between us, something without a name, a pulse beneath the silence, a shadow in the frame. But they will be antibodies? When we enter through the blue? Will the universe rememb...

BENEATH THE KEEP (reworking of Instrumental track , Barbacane, by Silvio Vinci) We came with picks and lanterns, where the northern wall had died, forty feet of earth and silence, seven centuries inside. Then my hammer struck the stonework, and the hollow answered back— a doorway under nowhere, a passage running black. Beneath the keep, beneath the ground, I heard the stones give back a sound. No...