La voce [English translation]

It's a voice which

Is inside of you

And it sets free

More if

You cry your need in love

With all the voice that is.

You hear it in the streets

And on pavements,

In eyes of who has hunger,

Of who doesn't stand on feet any more

And doesn't tell you fairy-tales

But only wishes

And says what you carry inside of you.

From opened windows

It throws itself to yards,

Light up the darkness at night

Running above trains,

It flies freely above the trees

As a kite,

In joy and tears

That you see around you.

It is a voice which

Will be with you

Every time when

There is life

And it will not leave you because

It is a truer voice which exists.

It will live with you

With the power which

It has inside of itself

And it is never lonely because

Never lonely until

It is the same voice which is in the world.

And it talks about people,

Puts itself on the sun

In the cotton fields.

It is black of sweat

And when it arrives to the soul

It becomes a song,

A great and interminable chorus

Which shouts in freedom.

It is a voice which

Will be with you

Every time when

There is life

And it will not leave you because

It is a truer voice which exists

It will live with you.

It is never imprisoned,

It grows freely outside and inside of us.

It is a truer one..

Black voice

Every time when you shout

With all of your voice that you have.

It is a voice which

Will be with you

Every time when

There is life

And it will not leave you because

It is a truer voice that exists.

It will live with you

With the power which

It has inside of itself

And it is never lonely because

Never lonely until

It is the same voice which is in the world.

• Artist:Laura Pausini
• Album:Le Cose Che Vivi (1996)