Al ballo mascherato [English translation]

Christ addict too many defeats

yield to the complicity

That exposes the Nobel of a convenience

Any of Award of Excellence.

Maria now ignored by a wily Oedipus

mimics a nostalgia for her birthday,

I bring the bomb with my novelty,

That he made the bomb His debut in society,

the masked ball of the celebrity.

At the door of Dante's Paolo and Francesca

spy who does it better Than him:

tells you there behind a normal love

But he will then make it so brilliant.

And the journey hell now do it yourself

with envy last left it there under a sheet,

surprise at the door of happiness

Spared the bomb has the normal,

the masked ball of the celebrity.

The bomb has a gentle nature

But driven by fairness

disrupts the intimacy Improbable

an Apparent statue of the Pieta.

Grimilde of Manhattan, the Statue of Liberty,

No Longer Rivals now your vanity

and the game of mirrors will not be repeated

"I am more beautiful, or the statue of the Pieta"

after the masked ball of the celebrity.

Nelson ripped from His carnival

His identity chases

and looks for His mask, pride, style,

committed to always win and never die.

Then hat by now in tatters

try to pull the rabbit of His Trafalgar

and in His agony, sprinkled here and there,

Also begs Jointly owned St. Helena,

at the masked ball of the celebrity.

My father claims aspirin and affection

and stumbles in His authority,

relies on a dressing gown her latest role

But after he explodes, before the decoration.

My mother approves of shattered mirror,

Should she accept with serenity the bomb,

martyrdom is her job, her vanity,

But Now Accepts only to die half

ITS share is still alive Makes Such pity,

at the masked ball of the celebrity.

Someone left the moon in the bathroom

Turned on only half

The Little That I need to count the dead,

Their fragility of amaze me,

and you can now remove my foot from my neck

friend who Taught me the "how to"

if not, I'll take you back a Few Minutes

I'll put you in conversation, you sit up there

Between Nelson and the statue of the Pieta,

at the masked ball of the celebrity.

• Artist:Fabrizio De André
• Album:Storia di un impiegato (1973)