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9 Useless Tunes

by Tommaso Mantelli

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    9 Useless Tunes is Tommaso Mantelli’s new album and his search for sincerity.
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1.
Words come easy When I'm down I've lost everything Is it enough? If I could turn back time I would do exactly the same Words come easy When I'm down And I think I've lost myself I think I've lost myself Sometimes we focus on the wrong detail Turning on another freaky ghost to please Don't forget to meet me by the river Am I all alone in the milky way? Any time I look around the bend In a shy attempt to understand Any time I feel this pain And I think I've lost myself Life I want is just around the bend Words come easy When I'm down I've lost everything Is it enough? Turning back time The same I've done Words are louder When I'm down And I think I've lost myself I think I've lost myself Sometimes we focus on the wrong detail Turning on another freaky monster to please Don't forget to meet me by the river Am I all alone in the darkest day? Any time I look around the bend In a shy attempt to understand Any time I feel this pain And I think I've lost myself Life I want is just around the bend
2.
Oh, you can say it loud Don't belong to this empty promise Do you believe these words are meaningful? Don't belong to this empty promise Oh, you can say it loud No, you can't let me down Shure of what matters to me Is not an empty word Get on now, choose to go Following the way it flows You can promise the whole world When the world is not yours at all Oh, you can say it loud Don't belong to this empty promise Do you believe these words are meaningful? Don't belong to this empty promise Oh, you can say it loud Don't belong to this empty promise Do you believe this world is beautiful? Don't belong to this empty promise Oh, you can say it loud Our love will beat any vow Shure that time will prove everything Not a writing on the sand Don't loose time Following this rule Promises felt so safe But now they're gone and we're still here And that's our way
3.
Strange to wake up in the doomsday The only one left here Just tring to figure out Everything's behind No future anyway I tried to be the only and that's why I'm here That's the fault I carry on And now the world is over, it's just me and myself Well, it sounds a little bitter sweet Tring to figure out The world is in my hands And I've got nothing at all I tried to be the only and that's why I'm here That's the price, I will pay for all And now the world is over, it's just me and myself Well, it sounds a little bitter sweet I don't need no other people than me I don't need noone to feel that I'm free I just need myself to be free But now the world is over, it's just me and myself Well, it sounds a little bitter sweet
4.
I Will Learn 02:59
I don't even know your name and I wish that you could tell us I don't even know how to keep you in my arms I don't even know your name, I wish you could tell us But one thing I really know I will learn I don't even know how to show you the beauty in things I don't even know how to catch you when you fall I don't even know your name, I wish you could tell us But one thing I really know, the only thing I've ever known I will learn
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6.
Which Game 03:47
Well, I've lost my balance And the dust can't wait on the floor Fate seems mixing a strange drink in my glass And which game is going to be? Just steam when I wait for the sun immerged in the nightfall I can't remember that face that I ever met I want to be somewhere else When I choose for a way And it looks to be the one for all I want Fate won't listen to the questions that I ask And which game is going, which game is going to be? Just a snail mimiking a spinning top Well, I could go anywhere But today I stop 'cause I seemed I forgot the way Fate seems mixing a strange drink in my glass and which game is going to be?
7.
I could stay without a word to say Just staring at the way you move and then you stare The movement of the world in the universe It still means something to me
8.
If it hurts you a lot It can't be that bad If it took you long time It can't be that bad I need a mountain to reach the top And an ocean to swim I need a lifetime to show my love It can't be that bad If it hurts you a lot It can't be that bad When you're starting a trip And you don't know where to go I need a mountain to reach the top And an ocean to swim I need a lifetime to show my love to you Well, it can't be that bad
9.
I Smile 03:50
It took me a while Well, I'm getting older It becomes so clear Death is a part of my life It took me a while While I'm getting older It will come the time When suddenly death becomes a part of my life I smile 'cause I'm not afraid I smile for the time we have made I'm proud to say I'm happy for what I've done I smile 'cause I'm not afraid anymore I smile for all the time I've spent in this world I smile for people I have held so tight I smile 'cause I will die with a satisfied mind

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9 Useless Tunes is Tommaso Mantelli’s new album and his search for sincerity.
Nine tracks, for voice and guitar only, show how the artist wants to concentrate on an unsophisticated music structure.
Nine tracks looking for self-knowledge and where to stay in the universe; relations with people all around, apocalyptic scenarios, thoughts about death, vices and virtues, expectations for a child on the way.
Nine tracks coming from hundreds of lyrics and twenty years of writing.
Nine tracks of acoustic rock celebrating American tradition (Jeff Buckley, Duncan Sheik, Chris Withley, Chris Cornell), some ballads, the whole album sung in English, Tommaso’s favourite language ever since.

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released March 27, 2020

Performed live in summer 2019 at Lesder Studio
All songs and lyrics by Tommaso Mantelli
Artwork and Glockenspiel on “I Will Learn” by Alice Mantelli

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Tommaso Mantelli Veneto, Italy

Polyhedral italian musician, sound engineer and artistic producer, active since mid 90', he works in his own Lesder Studio, near Treviso.
He has set up several
artistic projects, as Captain Mantell, AMA, Licantropy, Kirlian, and, even before that, 'Si:Pja, Full Effect,
Lili, Bleeding Eyes.
He has featured in famous bands like Il Teatro Degli Orrori, Sick Tamburo and Kill Your Boyfriend.
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