Rotolando Verso Sud [English translation]

Every man has a name

And every man is only what

He will discover following the distances inside himself

How many deviations

How many directions and which are not?

Before resting in balance for a while

I dream of a soft village

Inside of my spirit

And I go away, I go away

My life so be it 1

On top of a tired wave that pulls me up 2

While I move towards the South

On top of a wave that pulls me up

Rolling over to the South

Long way home

The continent's alive, disappeared 3, I am here

Under an ivory sky

Under purple clouds

Thousands of open fires

Thousands of stones on the road

While a smooth echo from far away

Jumps on...down here

A suffering of a century

That you don't conceive

And dust of dust...

Of a motionless story

On top of a tired wave that pulls me up

While I move towards the South

On top of a wave that pulls me up

Rolling over to the South

Long way home

Every nation has a name

And every flower inside of me has a name

The reason explodes

And everything has a reason

Ocean, entertain me

Moon, get me drunk

Rio, Santigo, Lima and Holguin

Buenos Aires, Napoli

Rio, Bahia, Santiago and Holguin

Buenos Aires

On top of a tired wave that pulls me up

While I move towards the South

On top of a wave that pulls me up

Rolling over to the South

Sun and blood, sex and the South 4

The dignity of the basics

The liberty of the poetry

Beyond the betrayals of men

It's magic, it's magic, it's magic...

1. Mi vida is Spanish for my life.2. "mi tira su" literally means "pulls me up". Mi tira su (like the food tiramisu) means "to cheer up" colloquially, but I wrote it as "pulls me up" because he mentioned that he's "on top" of it. I think it's a double meaning personally.3. Desaparecido is Spanish for disappeared.4. Sol y sangre sexo y sur is Spanish for sun and blood sex and the south

• Artist:Negrita
• Album:L’uomo sogna di volare (2005)