Niccolò Fabi wrote "Vince chi spring", a song that helps to overcome the fear of the future: "salvation cannot be controlled", he says, "whoever gives up wins".
TikTok's viral trick to preserve avocado is dangerousCan those who let go of their grip really aspire to win? Instinctively, we would say no, because they taught us that, to win, you have to persevere, resist, grit your teeth. We were taught that leaving the battlefield is like losers. And, as if that weren't enough, the future has always been told to us as the highest point of a climb, to be climbed with determination and tenacity. With courage.
Courage, in fact. And if more were needed to lighten the load e take off the burden of expectations (ours and others), of the roots, of the past? What if salvation wasn't resistance but abandonment to the uninterrupted flow of things? What if winning wasn't the consequence of a fight but of a surrender? Here's what it says Niccolò Fabi in Whoever gives up wins: what we have always believed to be true, that is to say that to win it is necessary not to give up, in reality it is only a dogma, a principle against which we have never rebelled for fear of being labeled a loser. In this passage, however, the Roman artist demonstrates exactly the opposite: "salvation cannot be controlled», dice, «whoever gives up wins».
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The meaning of Vince who gives up
The winner is whoever gives up is part, not surprisingly, of the album A sum of small things, published by Fabi in the spring of 2016. A record, this one, intimate and visceral, delicate and powerful, precisely because of the Roman singer-songwriter's ability to go deep and bring man and his streaks, limits and merits back to the surface , the compromises it relies on to get out of its gray areas unscathed. At the end of the record, there is Vince who gives up, which is nothing more than an invitation to surrender, not to raise walls to be a shield, but to let everything take its course, that it hurts a little before becoming a memory. Whoever gives up wins is an invitation to let go of everything, of the past, of the expectations of those who raised us, of a society that wants us to be different, better, invincible, perfect or perfectible. But, above all else, it is an invitation to don't be our own enemies, not to judge us, not to mortify us.
The beginning of the passage, in this regard, is emblematic: "I let go of the hand that grips my throat», So sings Fabi, at the opening. Because, even before the others, we must overcome our own resistance, free ourselves from the boundaries that we ourselves establish, learn to be aware of what we are, not remain prisoners of what we would like to be. We will never be what we want if we don't break free from mortification of our own judgment. The future will remain something distant and unachievable until we learn to embrace it. And, for this to happen, it is necessary to change the way we relate with others and with the society around us.
Not only that, a few verses later, Niccolò sings like this: "I let my father and my mother go and their fears ”, because we do not only take charge of our past, but also of what we have inherited from our parents, which belongs to us in spite of ourselves. Letting go does not mean forgetting, it would be a palliative, not a cure. Letting go means ensuring that the memory does not become a obstacle to the future.
The sense of Vince who gives up, in fact, is in the following verses: "For all types of travel it is better to have light luggage», It is from here that the ascent begins after a long apnea, it is these words that mark the awakening from torpor, from incapacitating fear, from insane attachment to the past, to habits, to a written and inviolable destiny. "I try not to hold back anything, I let everything flow", Salvation begins to take place when the hands open and are no longer in tension, when the teeth no longer beat against each other due to the fatigue of enduring, when"palpitations return beats". When, in other words, the future does not find obstacles, but the road paved by those who have stopped fighting in vain and wanting control over everything.
The last lines, anticipated just now, are emblematic: "Salvation cannot be controlled, whoever gives up wins". There is no need to fight with high waves, as they will always have won. Every now and then, it is good to let yourself be carried away, because in the end you always end up on the shore. May it be fear of the future, changes, farewells, separations or the death, trying to have control over it can become demeaning, of course it is useless. The one who gives up wins means that only by going through the pain it is possible to heal it, it means that the future must not be challenged, but welcomed and, for this to happen at its best, it is important get rid of the superfluous.
“This is a song about fear. On the fear of transformations, that of big departures, of separations. And on the queen of all fears, that of dying, or more precisely of be about to die, which is even more pernicious, ”revealed Fabi himself. Vince who gives up is a song that lightens the present to welcome the future, an exercise we should all do so as not to allow ourselves to be crushed by the weight of what has been, in view of what will be. It is a new look, a new way to overcome the fear of tomorrow.
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Here is the text of Vince who gives up:
I let go of my hand
that tightens my throat
I let go of the rope
That unites me to the shore
The carabiner in the wall
Pride and thirst
I let go of the suitcases
The antique furniture
Armed sentries in the sentry box
My everything pierced
I let fate go
All my attachments
The diplomas hanging in the living room
The knife between the teeth
I let my father and my mother go
And their fears
That house in the forest
A mood that really lasts
For any type of trip
Better to have light luggage
I stretch my veins
And I slowly open my hands
I try not to hold back anything
I let it all flow
Air from the nose goes to the lungs
Palpitations return beats
The head returns to its normal weight
Salvation cannot be controlled
Whoever gives up wins
Whoever gives up wins
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