Oh! You Pretty Things

Hotel Melia, Madrid

Photography by  Fabio Nosotti

 

   Lyrics by Stefano Bortolussi

 

   Many thanks to the Hotel Melia, Madrid, Spain and to Luis Malibran

Wake up, you sleepyhead, the Thin White Duke sings on the radio :

Put on some clothes, shake up your bed,

you look at me, lying on the white

sheets, and with your gaze you

describe what maybe didn’t happen .

Look out my window what do I see,

I see you against the roofs and

a sky that seems painted,

then inside again, in this room where we feel hemmed in

(No room for me, no fun for you) :

behind you the city looks so distant.

but this, your dance behind veils,

is your way of driving them away,

a

reverse

Salomè

caressed

by

light ;

and when you face the mirror you see that it’s speaking to you,

saying what it didn’t even

tell the Queen,

and you wake up like Snow White :

I’ve made some breakfast and coffee,

don’t worry, this apple

doesn’t seem poisoned.

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All images and texts are copyright protected. Fabio Nosotti photography 2014.