{"id":128,"date":"2021-04-06T03:48:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T01:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carloaudino.it\/?p=128"},"modified":"2025-03-17T23:21:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T22:21:27","slug":"wizard-merlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carloaudino.it\/index.php\/2021\/04\/06\/wizard-merlin\/","title":{"rendered":"Wizard Merlin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pq6XuJ4NvRI\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Lyrics and music by Carlo Audino<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-medium-font-size\">You are becoming famous, great\nLike an actor in your film\nAnd you stroll with your furry wife\nOn the high street\nDreaming of donuts, donuts\nDreaming of donuts, donuts\n \nShe doesn't care about your debts \nand walks away humming softly\nHe's sick of everyone pulling his leg \nand pulling his jeans down,  jeans down\nPulling his jeans down\n \n    So you complain about violence in the world\n    Punch the table like a storm in a teacup\n    What do you want\n    If you cannot\n    What do you do\n    If you don't give\n \n    Tongues of fire and evil witches \n    go down into your coffee\n    What is wrong with you?\n    What is wrong with you? \n\n        And now\n        Don't beat a dead horse\n        Run away with all your past\n        Nobody needs you anymore\n\n        And now\n        Don't beat a dead horse\n        Run away with all your past\n        Nobody needs you anymore\n        Nobody needs you, oh, anymore\n        Uh, nobody needs you anymore\n \nWizard Merlin jumps on the bed \nwith thunders over the town\nStruggling with a nervous breakdown\nHe sneaks up on Witch Lie\nWhispering\n \n    No, I can't take it anymore\n    Give me a little bit of love, please\n   <em> I don't know<\/em>\n    Like two peas in a pod\n    <em>I should not<\/em>\n    \n    Oh Gosh, how distracted I am\n    I will give you an helping hand\n   <em> I don't know<\/em>\n    In your wheat fields\n   <em> I should not  <\/em>\n    Oh, yeah\n   <em> I don't know<\/em>\n    In your wheat fields\n   <em> I should not<\/em>\n\n            <em>What are you doing?\n            What do you want?\n            Get the hell away from me\n            Wizard Merlin\n            The great magician<\/em>\n\n        And now\n            <em>What are you doing?<\/em>\n        Don't beat a dead horse\n            <em>What do you want?<\/em>\n        Run away with all your past\n            <em>Go to hell<\/em>\n        Nobody needs you anymore\n            <em>Wizard Merlin\n            The great magician<\/em>\n \n        And now\n            <em>What are you doing?<\/em>\n        Don't beat a dead horse\n           <em> What do you want?<\/em>\n        Run away with all your past\n            <em>Get the hell away from me<\/em>\n        Nobody needs you anymore\n            <em>Wizard Merlin\n            The great magician<\/em>\n \n        And now\n            <em>What are you doing?<\/em>\n        Don't beat a dead horse\n            <em>What do you want?<\/em>\n        Run away with all your past\n            <em>Go to hell<\/em>\n        Nobody needs you anymore\n            <em>Wizard Merlin\n            The great magician<\/em>\n \n        And now\n            <em>What are you doing?<\/em>\n        Don't beat a dead horse\n            <em>What do you want?<\/em>\n        Run away with all your past\n            <em>Get the hell away from me<\/em>\n        Nobody needs you anymore\n            <em>Wizard Merlin\n            The great magician<\/em><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote is-style-default\"><blockquote><p><strong><em>CREDITS<\/em><\/strong><br><strong>Carlo Audino<\/strong> :   voice, chorus and guitars<br><strong>Riccardo Taddei <\/strong>: keybord<br><strong>Simone Ceracchi<\/strong> : bass<br><strong>Luca Fareri<\/strong> : drums<br>Recorded in <strong>LR STUDIO<\/strong> in Lariano (Rome &#8211; Italy)<br>Radiodate <strong>8<sup>th<\/sup> of April 2021<\/strong><br>Musical arrangements by <strong>Carlo Audino<\/strong> and <strong>Riccardo Taddei <\/strong><br>Lyrics and music by <strong>Carlo Audino<\/strong><br><strong>Alessandra Modesti<\/strong> : photo<br><strong>Alessia Aster<\/strong> : photo<br><strong>Sabrina Seaside<\/strong> : art director<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/track\/3vas6Ck82sY5zPfVHnZLSZ?si=ea1925bb12a74a7c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"48\" class=\"wp-image-368\" 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Yes, this was the real name of my dear friend during adolescence. He disappeared in the fog probably due to his particular attention to the opposite sex. I loved him very much but he was a very unstable person: first he was firm, then vengeful, sometimes frustrated and then very tender. He reminded me of a cat named Merlin, a grey cat that I used to cuddle in that period. He was a braggart and our friends often laughed at him. Then there were women, (Gosh!) he went crazy when one of them approached him. Even though he had a girlfriend, he always had eyes for other women. Once he took a crush on an eccentric girl (Mrs Witch Lie) who considered him only a friend. They didn&#8217;t understand each other: when she pointed to the moon, he looked at her boobs. When finally Wizard Merlin sought affection from her, all the knots came to a head and so he was pushed away again. My poor friend. I like to remember him when in a country house, as often happened, we used to play our songs together to judge each other. What a pity! While I loved playing and singing candlelight in full blackout due to the storm weather that dominated outside, he was scared of the roar of thunder. Despite his flaws, he was a great friend! I still love him, even if he disappeared. When I tried to contact him he avoided me again like a fat cat avoids a Rottweiler, without allowing real friends to understand and help him \u2026 and again &#8220;run away with all his past&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Technically speaking<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">This song has always dragged a lot when I performed it with the band of friends or for the most varied, useless, musical competitions. The chorus in response at the end of the song is interesting: in previous versions I made my sister Alessandra do that part and I think I will soon propose a version of her own (and also in other songs). The arrangement is very Italian songwriter Ivan Graziani style, my historical idol and model since I started playing the guitar. A curiosity was the introduction of the upbeat drums in one of the final choruses dedicated to my son, a lover of heavy metal. In fact, in some concerts I accompanied him (it was Iron Maiden, Saxson, Sistem of a down, Anthrax and Sabaton) and I remember the particular effect that was felt when the drums and the bass went through a few upbeats: the homage to mine &#8221; small &#8220;is a must \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lyrics and music by Carlo Audino You are becoming famous, great Like an actor in your film And&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-songs-iii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carloaudino.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carloaudino.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carloaudino.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carloaudino.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carloaudino.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/carloaudino.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1234,"href":"https:\/\/carloaudino.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/1234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carloaudino.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carloaudino.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carloaudino.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}