Destra-Sinistra [English translation]

We all blame history,

but I say it's our fault;

it's obvious people aren't serious

when they talk about left and right wings.

What is then the right wing, what is the left wing?

What is then the right wing? What is the left wing?

Having a bath is right-wing,

while taking a shower is left-wing;

a pack of Marlboro is right-wing,

but it's left-wing when smuggled.

What is then the right wing, what is the left wing?

A nice thin soup is right-wing,

a thick minestrone is left-wing;

all of today's movies are right-wing,

they're only left-wing if they're boring.

What is then the right wing, what is the left wing?

Fitness shoes and tennis shoes

still keep a hint of right-wing taste;

wearing them all dirty and untied, though,

is more demented than it is left-wing.

What is then the right wing, what is the left wing?

Blue jeans, which are a left-wing symbol,

veer towards the right with a stylish jacket;

a stadium concert is left-wing,

but the ticket prices are a tad right-wing.

What is then the right wing, what is the left wing?

Tights are almost invariably left-wing,

garter belts are supremely right-wing;

taking a good communal piss is left-wing,

while the restroom is always last door to the right.

What is then the right wing, what is the left wing?

A nicely transparent-blue swimming pool

is clearly right-wing to some extent,

while all rivers and lakes and the sea too

are putrid more than they are left-wing.

What is then the right wing, what is the left wing?

Ideology, ideology,

I think it still exists after all:

it's a passion, the obsession

with your diversity

which is MIA at the moment,

no one knows where it is.

I would call Prosciutto right-wing

and Bologna left-wing;

if Swiss chocolate is right-wing,

Nutella remains left-wing.

What is then the right wing, what is the left wing?

Liberal thinking is right-wing,

but now it's good for the left-wing too.

No one knows if good luck is right-wing,

but bad luck is always left-wing.

What is then the right wing, what is the left wing?

A vigorous clenched-first salute

is an ancient left-wing symbol;

the '20s type salute, the fake Roman one,

is for assholes more than for the right wing.

What is then the right wing, what is the left wing?

Ideology, ideology,

I think it still exists after all:

it consists in steadily affirming

a thought and its reason for being

with the excuse of a difference that's not there,

and if it's there, then who knows where.

All that old sticking to morals is left-wing;

lacking morals is right-wing.

Even the Pope sounds left-wing lately,

it's the devil that veered to the right.

What is then the right wing, what is the left wing?

The People's answer is left-wing,

with only a slight slip towards the right.

I'm sure the bastard is left-wing,

while the son-of-a-bitch is right-wing.

What is then the right wing, what is the left wing?

A liberated woman is left-wing,

if she's reserved that's again more right-wing;

if she's sexy though then she's a mainstay

that's good for left and right alike.

What is then the right wing, what is the left wing?

We all blame history,

but I say it's our fault;

it's obvious people aren't serious

when they talk about left and right wing.

What is then the right wing, what is the left wing?

What is then the right wing? What is the left wing?

Left, right.

Left, right.

Left, right.

Left, right.

Left, right.

Enough!

• Artist:Giorgio Gaber
• Album:E pensare che c'era il pensiero (1995)