Caro babbo [English translation]

You seemed so tall to me, when I was little

You were my good giant who played hide and seek.

My heart was racing while I was staying waiting for you

Happy to hide, but to make me find too.

I felt you were strong and sometimes you scared me

But you were my docile horse and the carpet was the plain

I was used to come down and walk in your heavy shoes

Between hills of couches with my giant's passes

It was sweet, it was very sweet,

I remember it and I tell you

You were my biggest hero

You were my first real friend.

But you shrunk down in the first years of school

You came back always later and mum always left alone

I woke up suddenly and I still heard shouting

You were more and more nervous and you didn't stay and listen to me.

Other times you beated me and your hard words

Opened wide only a life in fear.

You were absent and unreachable

I hated you and I tell you

You were the boogieman in my dreams

You suddenly became my worst enemy

And I carried like a mourn your blood in my veins,

But my heart, for spite, was still loving you

And now dad I write it to you, like when I was a child

Like when we were used to play hide and seek.

Now it's cold, in fact it's very cold

I cry meanwile i tell it to you:

"What you're waiting for to arrive,

Dad if you are a friend of mine?"

It was sweet, it was very sweet

I understood it and I write it to you:

"How many times shall I die

To feel I'm still alive?"

• Artist:Marco Masini
• Album:Marco Masini (1990)