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Revolutionary Road

from Airing from Kolyma by Lilou & John

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“Revolutionary Road” is Lilou and John’s personal love story from their first date. They had already spoken six hours on the phone the day before and now John was driving 100 km to Lilou’s flat in Gothenburg. “I knew that whatever it took, no matter the cost, even if it killed me, I would have to let go of my lifelong fear of love and meet the woman with the dark alto voice. It was a hard road to drive away from my old life as a suicidal mess scared of intimacy and come out in the open. It took me years to be honest.” The chorus ”me ne frego” from the famous war poem by Gabriele d’Annunzio refers to this conviction to give everything he had for love or die trying. One reason for including the Fascist references was to annoy the thought police, he admits, but also to describe how a totalitarian ideology could attract so many individualists. ”The point was to take some of the symbols of Italian Fascism and transform them into something new, into a song about love and individual freedom that replaces the dream of national grandeur with the longing for self-realization instead of the opposite way round.”, John says.

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Early one morning we opened my door
And did something I never dared to before
We never looked back and never returned
My life was a Rubicon bridge that I burned

We smoked a fag and went to my car
Saw in the mirror the death of a star
Minute by minute my life ceased to be
And on the freeway there was only me

And I kissed your eyelids caressed your white skin
Said this is where our new lives begin

Me ne frego

I drove to the sea where we saw the big blue
Under the red sun shimmering through
Clouds so fragile they weren't almost there
Dancing like spirits with silverwhite hair

I took off my clothes and stood there alone
Watched the blue waves swallow my clones
That worked so hard to hide my old fear
That made me a ghost no one could come near

And I kissed your eyelids caressed your white skin
Said this is where our new lives begin

Me ne frego

I looked in your eyes and said “now it's done
What so many ended has finally begun
My life is on fire it burns with a flame
I long had forgotten rejected my name”

And when the moon rose above the high ground
I saw in the palm of my hand looking down
The lines I could trace back to where I belong
And said to myself I must right what is wrong

And I kissed your eyelids caressed your white skin
Said this is where our new lives begin

Me ne frego

Now we sit under the open night skies
Wrinkles around your wonderblue eyes
And sometimes I think back to that early dawn
At the big blue when I was reborn

And I kissed your eyelids caressed your white skin
Said this is where our new lives begin

And I kissed your eyelids caressed your white skin
Said this is where our new lives begin

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from Airing from Kolyma, released June 20, 2018

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