Sergio Endrigo’s 1974 Record Featured Luis Bacalov’s Orchestrations and Interactive Artwork Spaces
This song is from Sergio Endrigo’s eleventh album, released in October 1974. The lyrics of the tracks were all written by Gianni Rodari, while the music was composed by Sergio Endrigo and Luis Bacalov, the latter also conducting the orchestra.
The cover image portrays a composition of everyday objects, arranged in such a way as to depict a face. The cover is gatefold and contains a twelve-page booklet with the lyrics of the songs and an unsigned note presenting the record, along with some credits. The lyric pages leave large blank spaces intended for creating drawings and/or texts inspired by the songs themselves, which could then be sent to a school contest organized by the weekly magazine Corriere dei Piccoli. The contest rules were also printed inside the cover.At the beginning of the song Le parole (The Words), before the singing starts, a female voice can be heard speaking at an increasingly faster pace, simulating a malfunction of the stereo device.
Lyrics
Le cose di ogni giorno
Raccontano segreti
A chi le sa guardare
Ed ascoltare
Per fare un tavolo
Ci vuole il legno
Per fare il legno
Ci vuole l’albero
Per fare l’albero
Ci vuole il seme
Per fare il seme
Ci vuole il frutto
Per fare il frutto
Ci vuole il fiore
Ci vuole un fiore
Ci vuole un fiore
Per fare un tavolo
Ci vuole un fiore
Per fare un fiore
Ci vuole un ramo
Per fare il ramo
Ci vuole l’albero
Per fare l’albero
Ci vuole il bosco
Per fare il bosco
Ci vuole il monte
Per fare il monte
Ci vuol la terra
Per far la terra
Ci vuole un fiore
Per fare tutto
Ci vuole un fiore
Per fare un tavolo
Ci vuole il legno
Per fare il legno
Ci vuole l’albero
Per fare l’albero
Ci vuole il seme
Per fare il seme
Ci vuole il frutto
Per fare il frutto
Ci vuole il fiore
Ci vuole un fiore
Ci vuole un fiore
Per fare tutto
Ci vuole un fiore
Lyrics
The things of every day
Tell secrets
To those who know how to look
And listen.
To make a table
It takes wood,
To make the wood
It takes a tree,
To make the tree
It takes a seed,
To make the seed
It takes a fruit,
To make the fruit
It takes a flower.
It takes a flower,
It takes a flower,
To make a table
It takes a flower.
To make a flower
It takes a branch,
To make the branch
It takes a tree,
To make the tree
It takes a forest,
To make the forest
It takes a mountain,
To make the mountain
It takes the earth,
To make the earth
It takes a flower.
To make everything
It takes a flower.
To make a table
It takes wood,
To make the wood
It takes a tree,
To make the tree
It takes a seed,
To make the seed
It takes a fruit,
To make the fruit
It takes a flower.
It takes a flower,
It takes a flower,
To make everything
It takes a flower.
Source: Wikipedia
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