Cosa Sarà [English translation]

What is it that makes trees grow, happiness,

that makes you die at the age of twenty even though you live to be a hundred.

What is it that makes wind move, that stops a drunk poet,

that brings death for a piece of bread or a kiss not given.

Oh oh what is it that you wake in the morning and you're serious,

that makes you die laughing at night in the shade of a wish.

Oh oh what is it that pushes you to love a short lost girl,

the bottle that makes you drunk even if you haven't drunk it.

[Francesco De Gregori]

What is it that pushes you to beat your king,

that drives you to look for the right where there's not justice.

What is it that makes you buy everything

even if you don't need anything.

What is it that wakes you up rudely.

Oh oh what is it that makes you say some "no, I won't stand for it",

[Lucio Dalla & Francesco De Gregori]

it throws you in the sea, it comes to rescue you.

Oh oh what is it that we should look for,

that we should look for.

What is it that makes us leave the bike to the wall

and walk with a friend in the evening to talk about the future.

What is it that strange courage or fear that takes us

and brings us to listen to the night falling.

Oh oh what is it that man and his blessed heart

that, got out of shoes, got out of bed, felt lonely

and like a flying bird,

and like a flying bird he stops and looks down.

• Artist:Lucio Dalla