Rosetta – Itinérant
Personal note: About this song, i had to say that is maybe, so far, the most beautiful Rosetta song. Every sound, lyrics and atmosphere is just stunning! Yeah i agree, the whole The Galilean Satellites is a masterpiece, but how can an album with this name not be a masterpiece?
The lyrics of Itinérant reminds me the travel space in the book “2001: A Space Odyssey”, that moments when Dave left every human behaviour or emotion to reach that level of “superman”.
Wandering home,
with all these fears,
resting with a point of space.
This is,
poised in the hands of man,
slip in - slip out,
no day or night.
No time - or place.
We put our trust in the faith of man,
we walk the trail,
crossing over a bridge,
when we saw the beauty that we could be.
Wishing out,
our hands, are in the soil now,
our time is up.
In this 4:30 minutes i just revive images and feeling, that this book or movie, made change my perspective about humans and all the cosmos that surround us. Why we still believe in gods? Why choose fear instead free mind? Why humanity still believe that we are the end of the chain? Why we still believe that we are the center of the universe or the masterpiece from a unfair god?
Europa,
set my sails,
on your oceans of ice tonight.
Set me on the trails of light,
the caverns in your iron core are home.
Europa rely,
the final resting place of my soul,
the monolith will come,
surrender reality up to cross over the night,
my boat is waiting on the shores of ice.
Europa, one of the most beautiful satellites of Jupiter, and the smallest of the satellites discovered by Galileo Galilei at 1610. In this three verses, the song describe the characteristics and recreate a magnificent vision of the greatness of the space and his elements, every satellite and planets is a mix of mystery and physics laws that can disavow any concept of human god.
I may give up my only belief,
this borrowed time is over now,
pay the price,
forgotten years and pieces of Eden.
I’m wondering home,
with all these fears,
resting before me,
I put my faith in the hands of man and now I rest in soil.
I’m wondering,
my time is almost up,
this void is closing around,
my own universe is all in another time,
borrowed time,
pay it back,
I miss them all,
the halves of me.
I’m wondering.
This verses makes me remember that moment when i left many orthodox thoughts and started wondering “where we came from?” and many anthropological and astrological issues that i had ignored for YEARS. Maybe i can’t put a generical explanation for this verses, i see this like, everyone can make their personal explanation through their own experiences.
The last five minutes of this song follow the line of the whole album and his concept, a travel around the cosmos, center in the Galilean Satellites, just a total EARGASM!
All this is just my personal opinion, just a interpretation from a person who cannot sleep.



