Il treno [English translation]

And the train runs hard, the train goes far

and the picture always changes behind the window

I did not have time to shake hands

I did not have the time to say a word

to wipe the cry of a single mother who is alone

to break that knot that my dad had in his throat

But the train goes far, the train takes away

and beats a strange time along my way

back there is a baby with the nose that drops

then come friends at school-time

the love closed in the bathroom with one hand

the sdirty songs shouted loudly

But the train runs hard, and the train now flies

on the vast expanse of purple cyclamen

on sweet hills covered with sheets

above those sad dances with holes in the soles

over spending nights in search of whores

on the verses of Pavese 1 on vain promises

But the train runs hard, on my whole life

which passes fast through the fingers

I feel her voice, reopening the wound

the youth has passed to never return...

But the train goes far,and it never stopped

but this man's eyes keep the past

and now I see the faces of strangers

who seeks lost freedom in smiles

the lucky gypsy that discovers my cards

which reads in the moon which will be the fate

But the train runs hard , it will only stop

when someone will call me in the wind, one day

na na na na na na na na na .....

1. Cesare Pavese poet and translator dies suicide

• Artist:Riccardo Cocciante