L'Italia [English translation]

Italy is a country where everything goes wrong

My grandpa who lived in the South used to say this

So many presumed comunists were thinkig this

But no...

Italy is a country ruled by them

My father who had a job used to say this

And he was trusting the priests who were asking for votes

Even [from] God!

Italy is a country where a wall divides in half

The most absurd richness from the usual s h i t

Gay couples from normal couples

Italy is a country...that remains between the goalposts

Like Zoff!(Italian goalkeeper)

Italy is a country of girls raped

By the caresses of a grown gang

Inside golden cages

Because Italy is a country where everything ends like this

In the tears that we pay by instalments forever

because of the dirty hands of the nowadays political parties

That they have given to Italy

In order to fly in Europe's sky

A filthy shag!

Italy is a country where your heart dies being a fanatical supporter

In the ecstatic nights, in the lives emptied

By the hunger of the new owners

Italy is a country that pissed us off (the Italian expression is more offensive than that)

But Italy is a country that plunges into the sea

It's an old song, that we want to sing again

Because if ignorance is no one's mother

And every thing stays as it is...

In your innocent dreams there is still the smell

Of an Italy waiting

For her love story

• Artist:Marco Masini
• Album:L'Italia... E Le Altre Storie (2009)