Se il mondo fosse [English translation]

I envy deaf people’s ability to listen with their heart but

I envy blind people’s ability to look always a bit further

I envy mute people’s ability to say everything just with a look

I, who have the use of all my senses, I cannot see, I cannot hear, I can’t say anything else

If the world were blind, it would listen to music twice as much

you wouldn’t have any prejudice against other people

we would all be seated at the same table

We would all be our true selves and not just what we appear to be.

If the world were deaf it would prove its love with actions, not words

If the world were mute it would not lie

I would be honest with myself, I, too, freed from my lies,

If the world didn’t have the sense of touch, baby, you and I

would be more unaffected by a slap in the face and more concerned by a good-bye

if the world were odorless, okay, I would not be fooled by the scent of the life that I would like to have

If the world were blind, I would be Stevie Wonder

if the world were deaf, I would be Beethoven

If it were blind, I would look into its eyes (its pupils)

the truth is in the eyes, as it is in the mouth after 10 beers

God, down goes planet earth and down goes the world (1)

if the world were blind it could not see us going down

if it were mute it could not call for help

If it were deaf, it could not feel (2) the pain, full stop.

[Refrain x2.]

Maybe life is the most precious good

if the world were a gift

if it didn’t have a price tag

if the world were a gift

if God walked among men

if Heaven were here (on earth).

If the world were a gift.

If the world weren’t blind, it would realize that it’s been left in the dark

that it is rotten inside as a fruit under the July sun

and don’t you think it’s crazy that if the world could hear us it would acknowledge that a majority is sad

instead of tactlessly proving to us that Galileo was wrong because planet earth is in fact flat

it’s been a while since the world has become tasteless,

maybe Jesus was only a just man, maybe Jesus was at Woodstock

if the world were our mother we could nestle against it and it would stop shaking, it would love

each one of its sons in the same way, it could tell to its cities to quit smoking

if the world were blind it would not see the sun, but it would much more appreciate all these words, I would be less

attached to each material thing, I would be less aloof, you know I would be able to listen to you

if the world were mute I would be able to speak with my body in one minute’s time, you would understand whether I’m asking for your help

if it were deaf it wouldn’t know all that music can do, sometimes a song can save people.

• Artist:Emis Killa
• Album:Se il mondo fosse