{"id":52149,"date":"2015-09-08T02:43:58","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T06:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/?p=52149"},"modified":"2015-09-07T17:51:44","modified_gmt":"2015-09-07T21:51:44","slug":"back-fly-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/2015\/09\/08\/back-fly-us\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re Back, Fly with Us!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t4IjJav7xbg\" width=\"750\" height=\"563\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/t4IjJav7xbg\" target=\"_blank\">Video link here<\/a>.) A friend sent us this video of Domenico Modugno singing <em>Volare &#8211; Nel blu dipinto di blu<\/em>, a song we&#8217;ve heard (and disliked) a million times; we just couldn&#8217;t get with Dean Martin. But Modugno&#8217;s 1958 version of the song HE wrote is pure joy. It made us look up translations of the lyrics:\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Slightly surreal, dreamy, perfect for our leap\u00a0into Fall.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>In the Blue Painted Blue<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I think, such a dream<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Will never return.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> I painted hands and face in the blue<\/em><br \/>\n<em> And then suddenly the wind kidnapped me<\/em><br \/>\n<em> And I began to fly in an infinite sky.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>To fly,<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em> To sing<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em> In the blue, painted in the blue,<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<em><strong> I am happy<\/strong> to be above.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And I flew, flew happy<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Higher the sun and even higher<\/em><br \/>\n<em> While the world disappeared slowly<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Far away down.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> A sweet music played only for me.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But all my dreams disappeared at the daybreak because<\/em><br \/>\n<em> When the moon sets, it brings them with itself.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> But I continue dreaming about your beautiful eyes<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Which are blue as the sky embroidered with stars&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>To fly,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> To sing<\/em><br \/>\n<em> In the blue, painted in the blue,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> I am happy to be above.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And I flew, flew happy<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Higher the sun and even higher<\/em><br \/>\n<em> While the world disappeared slowly<\/em><br \/>\n<em> In your blue eyes.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Your voice is a sweet music<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Which plays for me.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>To fly,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> To sing<\/em><br \/>\n<em> In the blue of your blue eyes,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> I am happy to be down here.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Feel like a little more of Modugno&#8217;s heartfelt, very Italian groove while you get ready for the day? \u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/07KDpfvb2-Y\" target=\"_blank\">Video link here<\/a>.)<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/07KDpfvb2-Y\" width=\"750\" height=\"563\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>With thanks to Chris Eldredge!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Video link here.) A friend sent us this video of Domenico Modugno singing Volare &#8211; Nel blu dipinto di blu, a song we&#8217;ve heard (and disliked) a million times; we just couldn&#8217;t get with Dean Martin. But Modugno&#8217;s 1958 version of the song HE wrote is pure joy. 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