Text and meaning of Rum and chocolatethe new single by DELIA feat. FIAT131available digitally and on radio from Friday 22 May for Island of Artists / Warner Records / Warner Music Italy.
The classical singer-songwriter and pianist returns with a song that comes after the results of To my countrywith which he reached number one in the radio charts for the first time EarOneand during the writing of his first album.
The single also fits into the path of Sicily Bedda Toura theater tour which exceeded 25,000 tickets sold in less than 30 days and which also took DELIA outside Italy, with dates in Madrid and Barcelona.
DELIA feat. FIAT131 – Rum and chocolate: the meaning of the song
In Rum and chocolate, DELIA And FIAT131 they start from a very recognizable theme in relationships: jealousy. The piece does not treat it as an absolute drama, but as a daily dynamic made up of small spites, discussions, scenes and rapprochements. It is a form of conflict that remains within the couple and which, in the story of the piece, does not erase the feeling.
The central image is already in the title. Rum and chocolate are two intense, different and contrasting elements, but precisely for this reason capable of being together. The metaphor serves to describe a relationship that continually seems on the verge of becoming complicated and which instead finds part of its strength in the same tension. There is therefore no pacified reading of love, but a more unstable balance, built on attraction, jealousy and complicity.
The presence of FIAT131stage name of Alfredo Bruno, reinforces the idea of dialogue. The featuring is not presented as a simple vocal addition, but as a comparison between two perspectives. The linguistic choice also goes in this direction: the piece intertwines Italian, Spanish and incursions into Sicilian, using the dialect as an element of identity and not as a simple colour.
The connection with the Sicily Bedda Tour it is part of the individual's context. Rum and chocolate it was in fact premiered on the Spanish dates of the tour, within a project that for DELIA brings together Sicilian roots, pop writing and a theatrical dimension.
The text of Rum and chocolate
I stay alone
with a bitter taste in my mouth
love is there as you have seen it elsewhere
Go away and then say goodbye.
Because of those promises
Always
for all my unlit cigarettes
for my somewhat overbearing ways
and for this jealousy.
I'm in love, it's a cold war, all this drama, we are lost homes, we are rum and chocolate, you know if you come back
I don't know how to send you away
So I love you, because I can't love myself any other way. So I want you to love for the whole life, because you are the light… hope
I'm tired of your sentences
You tell me I love you and you don't trust anything
I wanted your seductive voice and not all this camurria.
And the distance that weighs on our chest, I told you
the only way to live well in the same bed
but you lose your patience like I lose soccer matches if you don't calm down we'll end up throwing everything away
So I love you, because I can't love myself any other way. So I want you to love for the whole life, because you are the light… hope
I'm in love, it's a cold war, all this drama, we're lost homes, we're rum and chocolate, you know that if you come back, I won't be able to send you away
So I love you, because I can't love myself any other way. So I want you to love for the whole life, because you are the light… hope
I'm in love, it's a cold war, this whole drama, we're lost homes, we're rum and chocolate, you know that if you come back, I won't be able to send you away.
Song credits
Title: Rum and chocolate
Artist: DELIA
Authors: Delia Buglisi, Alfredo Bruno
Featuring: FIAT131
Label / distribution: Island of Artists / Warner Records / Warner Music Italy
Cover photo by Chiara Marchese
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