Paola Turci public Lackavailable from Friday 24 July for BMG. It is the second excerpt from Love beyond measurethe album of unreleased songs expected on October 2nd, and addresses only one thing: lack, told without seeking consolations. Below are the lyrics and meaning of the song.
The meaning of Manchi by Paola Turci
The song was born as one of the most intimate moments of the album, so much so that the choice to anticipate it before the next official single is in itself a statement: the Roman singer-songwriter puts before the public not the most immediate piece, but the one that exposes the most.
Turci signs the text and talks about a loss. Not the end of a story from which we get back up, but an absence so large that, as the presentation of the song itself underlines, even the word love ends up not being enough. The register is that of everyday life: common, recognizable images, used to say something that concerns anyone who has lost someone.
It is a position consistent with the path of Love beyond measurethe first recording project after seven years and the first long release of the new agreement with BMG, in which Turci goes through love in its most difficult forms: fragilities, absences, rebirths. If My Lifethe single that opened this phase, looked ahead, Lack look at what is left behind.
On social media the singer-songwriter described her like this:
“Every time I tackle a record to write it always comes to me like this, like a gift from heaven, a song that I write in truly the time of a song. And this time it happened and Manchi arrived, which is a very simple, banal, love story, above all of lack, of course. A great love that no longer exists, but which is everywhere. Well, this is a bit of Manchi's story. I really find it a little love song, a bit like the title of a song I wrote years ago.“
Text analysis: lack as a permanent state
The title is a verb in the second person singular, without complement and without pronoun. Not “I miss you”, but Lack: the choice removes the suffering subject and leaves only the absence on stage. It's a subtraction that says the theme before the music even starts.
The other verifiable element is the use of everyday and universal images declared by the project: not constructed metaphors, but ordinary details as a vehicle of pain. It is a strategy that Turci has already practiced in his most recent writing, where the emotion comes from the concrete and not from the declaration.
Finally, the refusal of consolatory closure. The song offers no resolution: it preserves the memory instead of processing it. In a record built on the fine line between love and possession, it's the track that brings that tension to its consequences.
The analysis will be completed with the full text, available from 24 July.
Text by Manchi by Paola Turci
The text will be available from Friday 24 Julywith the release of the song. The article will be updated with the full text as soon as it is published.
Love beyond measure: the editions of the album
Love beyond measure It comes out on October 2nd on BMG and will be available on standard CD with booklet, on Collector's Edition vinyl in a limited and numbered edition with alternative cover and postcard signed by Paola Turci, and in digital download.
