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Fortuna is the second single from Leila Adu's album "Ode to the Unknown Factory Worker" released in 2011 on Tracce/Rai Trade.

In Leila Adu's own words: "Fortuna is a song about the wheel of fortune that eternally goes up and down with our affairs, both emotional and material. It speaks of true friends, loneliness and the power to ride out low times."

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Fortuna

Here all alone
I hear it's all too much
That I am not enough

Tell myself it's a phase
The ups and the downs
What goes down, must come up

A circle, or a cycle, or a wheel

Home
How can I hope to find you anywhere but here and now?

How many times have you fallen to the bottom,
heard someone lightly step on your grave,
do a dance with sticks and stones on your face?

I ask you to remember a flower
Call to attention a friend's face
The touch of sunlight on your skin
The feel of tears when cries the rain - Om

A circle, or a cycle, or a wheel

credits

from Ode to the Unknown Factory Worker, released January 18, 2011
Fortuna
Recorded and mixed 2009-2010,
Rome, Sala A, Centro di Produzione Radio Roma

Rai Radiotre - Executive Producer: Pino Saulo
Producer - Leila Adu
Recording Engineer - Luca De loris
Mixed by Luca De Loris, Leila Adu and Daniele De Santis
Mastered by Fabrizio de Carolis, Reference Studio, Rome

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