Compro horror [English translation]

I buy horror1, I'm avid for it

like trafic is for blockage,

every crime has satellite activities2

that I turn into an ingot3

so I tell you "be careful who you're dealing with,

you live in a world of madmen, not in Patty's world4.

Your nephew looks like Harry Potter, but he might knife you

and dissect you in many parts.

"Avada Kedavra, Avada Kedavra"5,

the criminal disappears, the corpse6 remains.

Let the killer evade, maybe in Granada

or in front of the camera7, however badly things go.

prize money, bring me pure blood.

Soon-to-be splatter, I safely pay bodies8.

Take Lazarus, don't wake him up, sell him.

Blimey!9 Don't you understand? Blimey!

I buy horror and I pay more than anyone else

I buy horrors popped up like mushrooms10,

I buy horror the whole week,

blade blade, fame fame, blade blade, fame fame.

Careless, you go to the woods

but your boyfriends, filthy and shady,

look like they can eviscerate, they act coarse

but without blades they're like Austin Powers.

They kill you, baby,

even these Out of Town [students]11,

the alarms go off,

we're not in a good situation,

courtrooms are filled,

accuseds put together12, mise-en-scéne.

The day of the murder, nobody is around

except for the directors already ready with full-length films.

A killing leads to another, like cherries do, let's make a toast

with teenagers' blood cells.

This is the market of horror, it's silver and gold,

not the horror of Argento13.

These souls are rotting, they bear fruits under the sign14 I light up.

I buy horror and I pay more than anyone else

I buy horrors popped up like mushrooms,

I buy horror the whole week,

blade blade, fame fame, blade blade, fame fame.

In bed, she and you in pajamas,

you say "Mmmmh", you sound like Shaggy

but then the cottage you're in and where you're wasting yourself

becomes the Overlook Hotel from The Shining.

You have a bad time on a cruise,

for the captain, the reef wasn't there15,

he's wearing the uniform but tonight at the cellphone

he's improvising,

he seems Ella Fritzgerald16

and everyone comes to me for an estimate,

you too who get aroused from the shop window

and like you, a thousand latent killers

worthy of Frank Miller17

I buy horror and I pay more than anyone else

I buy horrors popped up like mushrooms,

I buy horror the whole week,

blade blade, fame fame, blade blade, fame fame.

1. meaning whatever belongs to the horror genre2. "indotto industriale" is a web of smaller activities aimed to substain a major industry.3. probably he means something like "that I capitalise"4. "Il mondo di Patty" (Patty's world/Patito Feo) is an argentinian soap opera aired on Disney Channel (Italy) where an ugly duckling girl, at first discriminated, becomes the leader of a popular clique and gets a hot boyfriend.5. A forbidden spell in Harry Potter's world that instantly kills the target of it6. it should be "cadavere", but it's modified to rhyme with "Kedavra"7. referring to the fact that most of times killers not only don't get arrested, but also becomes TV celebrities and get invited to talkshows and such8. "salma" means a person's dead body but with a sort-of religious/formal nuance.9. "Ammazza, oh" is an informal exclamation to express surprise. It literally means, "(he/she/it) kills, oh"10. "spuntare come funghi"(to pop up like mushrooms) means to pop up all of a sudden and from everywhere11. I fuorisede are students that are from a different town/region/country than the university they're attending to. Probably referring to the whole Meredith Kercher-case.12. "mettersi insieme" means also to be(come) a couple. This refers to all these murdering young couples13. Dario Argento, famous Italian horror movies director14. of a shop, usually.15. referring to the Concordia cruise accident16. Ella Fitzgerald, the jazz singer. I don't know why it's spelt with that "r"17. noir comic book artist known for making "Sin City"

• Artist:Caparezza
• Album:Museica