Com'è profondo il mare [English translation]

That's us, there's so many of us

we hide at night

for fear of motorists

of linotypists

we are the black cats

we are the pessimists

we are the bad thoughts

and we have nothing to eat

How deep is the sea

How deep is the sea

Daddy, you were a great hunter

of quails and pheasants,

get rid of these flies

that won't let me sleep

that make me angry

How deep is the sea

How deep is the sea

It's all for no avail

there no jobs anymore

there no dignity anymore

God or somebody on his behalf

is trying to divide us

to hurt us

to drown us

How deep is the sea

How deep is the sea

With the power of blackmailing

The man became somebody

he even resurrected the dead

opened the prisons

blocked six trains

with connected cars

lifted for a moment the poor man

to a role that is difficult to keep

then he let him fall

crying and screaming

right in the middle of the sea

How deep is the sea

Then the scream all by itself

became a drum

and the poor man like a lightning

in the safe sky

started a war

to conquer

that pathetic land

that in its great heart

he had to farm

How deep is the sea

How deep is the sea

But the land

was taken away from him

including what remained of it on top of him

he was hurled

into a building, into a ditch

I can't remember

Then a matter of chains

clobbering

and experimental surgery

How deep is the sea

How deep is the sea

Meanwhile, a mystic

perhaps an aviator

invented sentiment

and reconciled everyone

the handsome ones and the ugly ones

with some detriment to the ugly ones

who were delivered

a shard of mirror

so that they could see themselves

How deep is the sea

How deep is the sea

In the meantime, fish

from which we all descend

witnessed with curiosity

the common tragedy

of this world

which they undoubtedly found evil

and started to think

in their big sea

how deep is the sea

in their big sea

how deep is the sea

It's obvious

thought is annoying

even if thinkers

are silent as a fish1

rather, they are fish

and like fish they are difficult to stop

because the sea protects them.

How deep is the sea

For sure

those who are in charge

are not willing to make differences based on poetry

thought is like the ocean

you can't stop it

you can't fence it in

In this manner, they are burning the sea

In this manner, they are killing the sea

In this manner, they are humiliating the sea

In this manner, they are bending the sea

1. means "quiet as a mouse"

• Artist:Lucio Dalla