Fiorella Mannoia sings "Learning to be a woman", a true hymn to life: not stopping learning means being alive. Here's what it teaches us.
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves himThere is no age in which you sit in the stands and resign yourself to watching life go by; there is no age even to stop making one's voice and dissent heard; there is no time to live and another to suffer: this is what he tells Fiorella Mannoia in his new song, Learn to be a woman, contained in his latest album of unreleased songs, Staff.
Fiorella Mannoia, in her songs, often told the women, their tenacity and their fragility, the pain lived with dignity, the freedom of not having to pursue an abstract concept of perfection. Learning to be a woman is one mature song, aware, intense and full of life. She could only sing it and write it (she is the author along with Federica Abbate e Cheope) a resolute and sensitive woman like Fiorella Mannoia, who - in addition to giving her voice and pen - offers her awareness and the point of view of the person she is today to this piece. For this, it is an intimate piece, but at the same time universal; tells the story of him, but - without expecting it - can be considered a poster.
It is not an apology for women, also because Mannoia, who has always been an intelligent, sensitive, attentive interpreter, knows well that a blind exaltation would be almost belittling, it would be only mere exaltation, almost a stance. Instead, in this passage, she tells herself from her own perspective and reveals one sharable truth. Fiorella reveals, in this way, all the facets of an adult woman, that she knows how to be moved, that she gets angry, that she is not satisfied, that she looks for herself in all the women she has been, that she still learns to live , Why life is in the making and stopping means not fully understanding it.
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The message of Learning to be a woman
To tell the truth, it is possible to give one piece to the piece more universal reading: it is not a hymn to women, but to "vita", so that each of us can safeguard his own enthusiasm, the desire to be surprised and, sometimes, even be silenced; what matters is be an active part of it, not spectators, not even referees. The message of Learning to be a Woman is clear from the very first verses; the passage, in fact, opens like this: "With bare hands, barefoot, face life on the pitch and never from the stands".
It is the story of a woman who has "more past than future”, Which has come to terms with its mistakes and, over time, has been able to make them a warning, not a limit. The woman told by Mannoia, in fact, did not allow herself to be parched by her pain: she still knows how to allow herself tears of anger and emotion, she does not deny her memories, which are pulsating and overwhelming, but lives firmly in the present, look forward and learn every day to be a woman, endure the weight and welcoming the beauty.
Text
The text of Learn to be a Woman is direct and genuine and Fiorella's interpretation, as always, is intense, refined, personal. The originality of the song lies in the fact that she tells one unpublished woman, rarely considered in songs: not the one who comes to life for the first time, not the one who is a victim, not even the one who is strong at all costs, not a mother, not a daughter, not a person in love and not even a wound. It tells a woman who has an impressive experience behind her, more memories than ambitions, but only one, unshakable certainty: there is always something to learn, because living means never be satiated with knowledge, curiosity and beauty.
Here the text of the piece:
Bare-handed, barefoot
Face life on the pitch and never from the stands
Without savings
Always going forward anyway
And nothing is ever sure
And when you have more past than future
You know you've learned even the worst mistakes from others
For days, months, years
But I still get emotional
For a distant kiss, a souvenir photo
For the night that slowly becomes day again
Every emotion runs through my breath
And I cry for joy or for no reason
There are days when I would like to disappear
And others that happiness has no end
Every emotion runs through my breath
And I laugh with joy or for no reason
Convinced that in the end it all comes back
With the weight and beauty of learning
To be a woman
And walk on broken glass
Of a thousand bad choices to burn your eyes
And despite the blows
Do not give weight to the reasons, to the wrongs
And still I am moved
Whenever I wait for spring
When I meet the gaze of a real person
Every emotion runs through my breath
And I cry for joy or for no reason
There are days when I would like to disappear
Others that happiness has no end
Every emotion runs through my breath
And I laugh with joy or for no reason
Convinced that in the end it all comes back
With the weight and beauty of learning
To be a woman
Every emotion runs through my breath
And I laugh with joy or for no reason
Convinced that in the end it all comes back
With the weight and beauty of learning
To be a woman
A woman
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