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Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Marco Masini's new song

See previous post. Here are the lyrics.

“L’Italia”
E’ un Paese l’Italia dove tutto va male/ Lo diceva mio nonno che era un meridionale/ Lo pensavano in tanti comunisti presunti/E no…E’ un paese l’Italia che governano loro/Lo diceva mio padre che c’aveva un lavoro/E credeva nei preti che chiedevano i voti/Anche a Dio!/E’ un paese l’Italia dove un muro divide a metà/La ricchezza più assurda della solita merda/Coppie gay dalle coppie normali/E’ un paese l’Italia… che rimane fra i pali/Come Zoff!/E’ un paese l’Italia di ragazze stuprate/Dalle carezze di un branco cresciuto/Dentro gabbie dorate/Perché è un paese l’Italia dove tutto finisce così/Nelle lacrime a rate che paghiamo in eterno/Per le mani bucate dei partiti del giorno/Che hanno dato all’Italia/Per volare nel cielo d’Europa/Una misera scopa!/E’ un paese l’Italia dove l’anima muore da ultrà/Nelle notti estasiate nelle vite svuotate/Dalla fame dei nuovi padroni/E’ un paese l’Italia che c’ha rotto i coglioni!/Ma è un Paese l’Italia che si tuffa nel mare/E’ una vecchia canzone, che vogliamo tornare a cantare/Perché se l’ignoranza non è madre di niente/E ogni cosa rimane com’è…Nei tuoi sogni innocenti c’è ancora l’odore/Di un’Italia che aspetta/La sua storia d’amore
Italy is a country where eveything is going wrong/ My grandfather who was a southerner used to say so/I lot of so-called communists used to say so/ And those who weren't/It's a country where they govern/ My father, who had a job, used to say so/ And he believed in priests who asked for votes/ Even asked God!/ It's a country Italy where a wall splits us in half/ The most absurd wealth from the usual shit/ Gay couples from normal couples/ It's a country Italy that's between the posts... Like Zoff! [soccer metaphor- don't understand]/ It's a country of girls raped by the caresses of a wild group brought up in a gilded cage/ Because Italy is a country where everything ends up like this [badly, I would presume]/ In installment-plan tears that we pay forever [how depressing!- no statute of limitations!]/ By the spendthrift ways of the current parties/ which have given Italy/ To fly into Europe's sky/ a very poor broom/ It's a country Italy that dies as a soccer hooligan/ In the ecstatic nights [think he means ecstasy] and hollow lives/ carved out by the greedy new bosses/ It's a country Italy that has broken our balls!/ But it's a country Italy that dives into the sea [the Med- very polluted]/ It's an old song we want to sing again/ Because if ignorance is the mother of nothing/ And everything stays the same/ In your innocent dreams/ There is still the fragrance/ Of an Italy awaiting/ Its love story.