Land Down Under

Quest'anno ancora nuovissimo inizierà con un viaggio. Sedicimilasettecento chilometri.
Se lo scrivo in lettere non mi fa rabbrividire così tanto, le cifre mi colpiscono di più.

Sono abituata ai chilometri, anche a farne più di mille per tagliare l'Italia da Nord-Ovest all'estremo Sud-Est. E in macchina ci vuole un giorno intero d'estate, quasi due in inverno. Ma una strada così lunga non esiste, almeno io non la conosco. 

La cerco su Googlemaps che sa tutto... e invece mi sa di no. Nemmeno lui ce la fa!

E' una strada tracciata per aria. Un volo intorno al mondo. Un balzo della fantasia.

Non prenderò navi né aerei, ma il mio cuore volerà con Sabrina dall'Italia a Londra e poi sotto a testa in giù fino a Sydney... Down-Under, nella terra dei canguri.

Travelling in a little fried-out combie
On a hippie trail, head full of zombie
I met a strange lady, she made me nervous
She took me in and gave me breakfast
And she said,

"Do you come from a land down under?
Where women glow and men plunder?
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover."

Buying bread from a man in Brussels
He was six-foot-four and full of muscles
I said, "Do you speak my language brother?"
He just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwich
And he said,

"I come from a land down under
Where beer does flow and men chunder
Can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover."

Lyin' in a den in Bombay
With a slack jaw, and not a lot to say
I said to the man, "Are you trying to tempt me
Because I come from the land of plenty?"
And he said,

"Do you come from a land down under?
Where women glow and men plunder?
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover."

'cos we're living in a land down under
Living in a land down under
Where women glow and men plunder
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover!

'cos we're living in a land down under
Where women glow and men plunder
Can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover!