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Nymph​é​as

from No Claim by The Grasshoppers

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This is the last song we wrote. The text is ispired by an interesting abstract from City, written by Alessandro Baricco, dealing with a argument on Monet canvas “Nymphéas”. The concept is that the true shape of these flowers couldn’t be found (“That’s a speechless visual theft:/ you can’t distinguish what’s alive or dead!”), ‘cause
The “French museum”, The Orangerie, has a oval structure: so, the different paintings seem to be continous (“it has no end”) but to not be kept as a whole (“no photo can catch its true shape”). Finally, you get confused (“your landmark is dropped off”).

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here’s a story of a painting;
it has no end, neither a dawn.
no photo can catch its true shape
even if it’s twenty meters long.

that’s a speechless visual theft:
you can’t distinguish what’s alive or dead.

when you’ll find it in a French museum
you’ll see just water and nymphéas;
the Giverny painter did it alone
and it’s twenty meters long.

that’s a speechless visual theft:
you can’t distinguish what’s alive or dead
‘cause your landmark is dropped off
and your heart is not pure enough.

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from No Claim, released March 3, 2015

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