None Shall Sleep

"Nessun dorma! Nessun dorma! Tu pure, o Principessa, nella tua fredda stanza, guardi le stelle che tremano d'amore, e di speranza!"
("None shall sleep! None shall sleep! Even you, O Princess, in your cold bedroom, watch the stars that tremble with love and with hope!")

"Ma il mio mistero è chiuso in me; il nome mio nessun saprà! No, No! Sulla tua bocca lo dirò quando la luce splenderà!"
("But my secret is hidden within me; none will know my name! No, no! On your mouth I will say it when the light shines!")

"Ed il mio bacio scioglierà il silenzio che ti fa mia!"
("And my kiss will dissolve the silence that makes you mine!")

"Il nome suo nessun saprà... E noi dovrem, ahimè, morir, morir!"
("No one will know his name... and we will have to, alas, die, die!")

"Dilegua, o notte! Tramontate, stelle! Tramontate, stelle! All'alba vincerò! Vincerò! Vincerò!"
("Vanish, o night! Set, stars! Set, stars! At dawn, I will win! I will win! I will win! ")

Song loop today is a famous aria from Giacomo Puccini's opera Turandot. Made famous by one of the most commercially successful tenors of all time, Luciano Pavarotti.

Listening to her shortens my life span and I already have a premature expiry date before she took over the world. Sometimes when it gets unbearable, the mind conjures images of self infliction where I hit myself on the head with the phone receiver repeatedly as she goes on and on...

Playing this over and over again soothes me.

One fine day... All'alba vincerò! Vincerò! Vincerò!