Mondo Nuovo [English translation]

Our time runs fast – towards which

Direction? –, unknown and strange.

(And) our frightened eyes

Look at everything we are standing on:

They do not believe in a technical spell

Rapting us – little by little and coldly –

And Dragging us towards a reality

That we will never1 see (among unknown entities and computers),

That we will never see (among cyphered cards and cities),

That we will never see...

And there it runs – humankind –, it runs confused

Towards / something it cannot understand,

Who did program its life?

It doesn't know who and where he is. But who

Cares, this is enough to start it

Question its balance.

(And) The road it's already – obscurely – open

To a new reality

That it will never understand (among unknown entities and computers),

That it will never understand (among cyphered cards and cities),

That it will never understand...

[That day] we won't know why and how:

We belong to the age between the ages,

Between a nearly-ended society

And a new unconcieved one.

If hardly anyone has faith anymore,

Which will the new belief be?

Which will the new goals be

Appeasing our eternal thirst

Of self-determination2?

Despite that someone will give way,

I cannot say if it will be either me or you:

This new humankind – that

Enthrals me –

In its new world, that

We will never1 see (among unknown entities and computers),

[That] we will never see (among cyphered cards and cities),

[That] we will never see...

1. a. b. in the sense of "we will not be able to", because such scenario it will happen in a far away future.2. lit. "of being ourselves."

• Artist:Francesco Guccini
• Album:Amerigo