(2020)
"The Mother Code" è un album che ha uno stile apparentemente più scanzonato rispetto ai precedenti, di matrice rock con moltissime influenze e sperimentazioni blues e rap.
Silversnake si diverte a giocare con le parole e simbolismi. I testi rimangono sempre molto criptici e metaforici e anche quando toccano argomenti delicati e pesanti sono abbinati a melodie morbide.
In questo album vi è un forte richiamo verso l'infanzia. Quasi un voler tornare indietro in un periodo più sereno e leggero (ma è mai stato effettivamente così?). Forse un tornare indietro per soffocare taluni rimpianti di cose non fatte e sogni distrutti, per non aver dato fiducia e ascolto alla voce del proprio cuore.
Per difendersi mette in atto comportamenti autodistruttivi per annullare sentimenti ed emozioni. Si cerca di riempire un vuoto, ma Il cuore diventa freddo e pesante quasi a non voler "sentire" più nulla. Una condizione di pre- morte.
Silversnake sente il tempo scandire sempre più ferocemente e inesorabilmente i suoi passi. I giorni sempre più corti e veloci che ci schiacciano voluttuosamente e si vede sempre più vicina alla porta oltre la quale c'è l'ignoto. Qui traspare la forte paura di morire, la paura di non potere più nulla.
Il Codice è la chiave con cui percepire la fluttuante prospettiva del Tempo, ma Her Snakeness la seppellisce, rendendo l'Universo una inespressiva e irreale proiezione olografica di un punto che si espande all'infinito. E' un riverbero . Una burla della luce che ci fa percepire tridimensionalmente una realtà bidimensionale . Esattamente come in uno schermo televisivo. E quindi continueremo ancora a vedere il tempo in modo sfocato con una direzione irreversibile.
La copertina rappresenta lo scollamento dalla bidimensionalità per diventare tridimensionali . E anche la ribellione di una parte di Silversnake, rabbiosa contro se stessa, per essere arrivata a essere imperturbabile e insensibile come la dura pietra.
Ogni album è strettamente interconnesso all'altro. L'insieme dei titoli di tutti gli album formano una frase che si completerà al termine di un percorso personale condiviso.
Music and Lyrics by Silversnake Michelle
Arrangements by Daniele Marchetti and Silversnake Michelle
Vocals: Silversnake Michelle
Bass, Guitars and Keyboards: Daniele Marchetti
Drums for tracks 1, 2, 3 and 6: Greg Baker
Drums for tracks 4, 5 and 7: Tom Snare
Piano for track 1: Silversnake Michelle
Drums for track 9: Paola Caridi
Bass and Guitars for track 9: Dario Arena
Produced by Snake Machine
Published by Areasonica Records
Recorded at Snake Machine Studio One (Milano)
Engineer: Daniele Marchetti
Mixed at Blue Light Studio (Milano) by Marcello De Toffoli
Mastered at Studio Tranquilo (Milano) by Stefano Barzan
Art direction and design: Silversnake Michelle with
Photos by Daniele Marchetti
Un grazie alla mia famiglia, a chi ha collaborato al disco, in particolare Daniele, e a tutte quelle persone che credono nel progetto Silversnake.
Ringrazio anche e soprattutto coloro che fruiranno della musica, perchè mi permettono di condividere con loro un pezzettino della mia anima... per sentirci meno soli.
Federico
Enzo
Luca Vitali
Dario Arena
Luca Latini
Gualtiero Chiapello
Massimo Santo
Grazia Leonardi
Giuseppe Bariona
COSFER SRL (Milano)
"Thank you Silversnake Michelle . You finally... do. "
THE EMPTY FULLNESS
Gray rain in my thoughts
in the silence of my room
and all the books are singing
I believed it was you
There's wind in my hair
and fog in my own lies,
smell of seduction of wine
and cigarettes
to spite myself.
This is the world of the snakes
I know how I felt,
words in lake
So please what is your name?
I worry about my blame
no one really used to care
about me
no! Do not eat!
I'm insane
PLASTIC
We're all together here
dreamy lights cross my way
New lines on my face
with each step I take,
Why 're you running now?
if you get wrong, it throws you off your feet
Life is not a race
Where're you gonna go?
I wanna change the world
But something went wrong with me
All I want is to hurl
all the wars against the sea
Dancing on my past
I see my actions back to me
I wasn't the last
To know it's time to change street
Achievable or irretrievable?
I'll never come back
In plastic way
I don't wanna live.
Don't call me!! I don't regret
Irreversible and impersonal?
I'm kinda sick of this place!!
In plastic way, in plastic world
I don't wanna stay anyway
Your song in talent show
It's not my cup of tea, you know it!
I can't sing, I sense unease
as hiding camel toe
Don't do plastic art
the world deserve truth you know
you're not an artist now
you will be when pigs fly
The deepest part of me
suggests we are not on the same page
I follow my true art
Go goodbye
BLUE GLUE
I feel November is loving you
I saw the candle, and you blew
A Guilty Moon told me truth
My heart plays music in Blue glue
When your string is on blue mood
And when the words are only blew
when your thoughts are far from you
My heart drowns music in Blue glue
When you wear a pull with a stain
Don’t be so shy and fuck the shame
You wash ice-cream and will be clean
Blue glue has melted in your brain
Every night and every day
I was thinking how I stayed
Every day and every night
I became a woman and I say goodbye
Every sun and every moon
We stay together with blue glue
Every moon and every sun
I said goodbye to this old man
I feel September rains on you
I broke the handle with a glove
A guilty Sun told me:“ fool !!”
My heart plays music in Blue glue
When your world is on blue mood
Put your emotions in groove
I change the street far from you
My heart closes music in Blue glue
When you wear a pull with stain
Don’t be so shy and do it again
Lick chocolate and will be clean
Blue glue inside washing machine
When you think that all is sloshed by rain
You fall in love and fall in life again
It’s time to close your eyes and will snow the fame
You see life is not still the same
And when the planes are ready to fly
You go away without wondering why
You must be proud and strong of your light
It blinds the wrong and always brights the right
IRREVERSIBLE AND MASSIVE NECROSIS
Another pip against stars today
It depends to the guest and the mess just out of the day
It’s hot and I don’t know how do I stay
Joy steals a slice of time to save her sick mom and wind is praying
And your life flows normally in a boring way (boring way)
And the ants grow in your season, so your winters are never the same.
Stinking love made troubles out of the dance
Strange clouds make shadows darking white town’s fence
Suddenly metal creatures rain down today
Sick, smelly snow falls in flakes, Don’t touch, ooh it’s too late
Verve to the night, Still you cry
So virtuality grow in your brain, and the Earth couldn’t be the same.
They crush the pressure
Irreversible and massive necrosis of primes
Picture of Escher
Where space is inside the time
They threaten with flesher
universe loses control of the chain of pain
They prance on the grime
Irreversible and massive necrosis of primes
Disordered sequences of numbers are banned
And that creatures wanna kill us stealing the sun
It’s cold and grey and I don’t know how do I stay
Joy steals a picture of life to save herself and wind is not fair
And your life it’s not normal, you fly away
Tinny mantis raids your season, cause you never catch the prey
My absent presence made me lose
the now of my days;
you broke away what’s in your eyes,
cause you never saw the way;
Hey now I feel I wanna cry
Oh no, no no
I feel I wanna kiss the life
Stop think it’s dangerous to breakthru doors
They crush the pressure
Irreversible and massive necrosis of primes
Picture of Esher
Where space is inside the time
They threaten with flesher
universe loses control of the chain of pain
They prance on the grime
Irreversible and massive necrosis of primes
They put a bounty on me
Cause I never lost my faith, so they can’t win
Pilgrim of years
kingdom of tears
victim of smears of gears of fears (they lose again)
wisdom of prayers
million of chairs
reptilian on the hares again (they lose again)
(so I can feel loneliness of twins)
EUKARYOTES
You talk to me but
I don't understan'it
you serve the mighty
I don't understan'it
you want me do it
I don't understand why
I'm mad at Nature
but you don't understand it
I feel She's faker
you don't understand why
a strange behavior
the daily war has begun
Faith is fake illogical
but you don't understand it
I say we are animals
but you don't understand it
you think I'm snarky
and I feel your fear
Why you feel so nervous?
I don't understan'it
you touch the surface
I don't understand why
I've still to learn that
you don't want find the truth
The secret of life is inside of us
but too hidden and too black to see it
we are eukaryotes, nothing more
but then why do I feel...? (how?)
Do you ever
wonder what's life?
and how was born the Sun?
who is your God and where He comes from?
surreal picture of your mind? or don't?
Do you ever wonder
why in a purple twilight
we are just a lonely shade?
Maybe we’re just unreal
games of light
the truth is set in the frame
Do you really settle
for being a brushstroke
of a painting you'll never see
and whose meaning you'll never know?
made by another invisible self
When I was a child, I saw the dew turn black.
why don't you dig in-
-to the mud with me?
it will eat us , we'll rot to feed the leaves
(I let my nightmare come to the surface)
The Earth orbits the lie
you have a distorted view
as when you look in
the back of the spoon
try to imagine
a sky without moon
You think I'm loser
cause I talk about the Death
you try to abuse Her
but what scares you?
why can't you see the goal?
I don't understand
I look in the mirror
I see Time mocking us
obsession to get old
wrinkles eat my skin
do you really think that
botox takes you back in time?
(your twenty years old are now faded images)
32 DECEMBER
A sunny night of a spring squalls
I built a music-life
I see a cloud made of flowers that falls
I'm looking at the moon and she smiles?
I see the world that turns on pink
and mountains of scented skunks
and river-horses skate and wink
I wonder what I have drunk
So in my mind will shine Silversnake,
my insanity painted this fake
So in my mind will broke Silversnake,
32 December red wine will rain
I frolic on my mistakes
I wanna marry Silversnake
she stumbles upon her days
she said "I do" and after she fainted
Dancing on my mistakes
I see rainbow where swims an hake
Don't want me kill again
I do mush with your brain
I flow the space in time today
I bend my life like a game
to shiver sliver of slippery slimy snake
It's 32 December again
IT-ALIEN
Mercury, Venus and Earth
their dimensions erode
Mars alone in its hell
Jupiter and Saturn so cruel
Uranus and Neptune
give blue to the dark
My sex dries up and I disappear
in the shade of the shade of the shade but in the shade
The universe is painted
One , two , three
what's your name?
my throat you squeeze
I'm falling down , I wanna see the world through all the appearances
"Solve et coagula" it's not a concept wrong
cause speech catches its own momentum sick and cursed.
I play with your words
theatre of absurd
you feel the structure of birds?
Not human on board
my cells and new vibe
my it-alien and dumb eyes
"You don't have The Voice or X-factor!"...but who are you?
who are you to judge me and my art? Fuck you!
just a loser geek on his way to slur land
I shall save myself-self from your venomous tongue
copycats' world in devil's dung
you're such useless assholes that
you don't even serve as manure.
mankind no more demure
it's hint .
All the monsters around,
it's the Evil inside
all the shady and sticky souls
you've got no temper at all
spare me your platitudes
with a no sense choice in all issues
a new mitosis.
Turn off the light......!
JUST A NAME
A new chapter of story of my life
It's a book full of emotions as a goldmine
with Greg and Daniel and red wine
and rock music comes with us tonight
around and around and I write.
While they talk about everyday life
Dire Straits make me fly out of all my strife
and I float in my thoughts and the room is white
and I feel my hungry, angry life
it seems so far away....my dreams on Milky way
Roger Waters' bass spell out "Hey you"
he brings me back to reality with my crew
And so I start to talk out of the blue
about the power of number number two
that's just my point of view
In their eyes there is a quizzical look
they gaze at me without having understood
I say they must keep the secret or they will die
they joke at me and say I seem Cleopatra tonight
So erotic and cruel liar...
It's better don't ask why
What's left of us?
what we're discussing? (you know I'm right)
we are just a name, nomen
nominis, nomini
life is a gruesome game/ life is a mysterious tale
just a nomen, nominis, nomini
nomen, nomen ,nomine (again)
I listen to our laughter that echo in the room
I wanna suck intense pleasure of "life perfume"
and ephemeral music gets twisted around
a bit of sadness make my heart grey and wounded
around around around
Emotional breakdown
While I get lost behind my working mind
Red Hot Chili Peppers play for all the night
" Of the beauty and color and scent of a rose
when it withers, only one thing remains"
no hell, no smell, no pain
when we die, we are just a name
What's left of us?
what we're discussing? (you know I'm right)
we are just a name, nomen
nominis, nomini
life is a gruesome game/ life is a mysterious tale
just a nomen, nominis, nomini
nomen, nomen ,nomine (again)
SILVERSNAKE
Starry night of lazy fall
I’ll tell myself deepest lie
You know, I see you though if you’re only ghost
Slender moon in the sky
I implored the rain to melt my hardened heart
I prayed for the wind to kidnap me
All my life I‘ve stopped at the start line
Now I've fallen into a black and thick sea
So in my mind, was born SilverSnake
Chasing the dragon now, you lick my brain
I felt the cold stone whisper to me
Trapped in a smell of flowers
I don’t see colors and sounds of history
my sweaty skin and wheezing hours
A nightmare screamed at me 4 and 48
I feel your time is over
your shadow flies away beyond the clouds
I can’t feel your essence anywhere
So in my mind, was born SilverSnake
Your insanity sucked my brain
And walking on my mistakes
I’ll see a new life on the horizon.
And breaking this golden cage
I feel the lie of my freedom
And walking on my mistakes
I scratched the walls of darkness
And breaking this golden cage
I feel the night in brightness
A bird deceives me and steals away my soul
My emotions are lost in time
tears of rain slip away from my cold face
This is the finish line
You know I know you’re praying for Silversnake
Your insanity turned off my brain.