Ulisse [English translation]

I used to know this boy, he was called Nico,

At school he rarely spoke, I found him cool

One morning I went to the bank with my mum,

and I saw Nico enter and pull down his balaclava

"Good morning guys, this is a robbery!

I'm the last person you'll see alive

Unless you put your face to the floor doggy-style

And it'll all be quick and painless like a quickie!

Leave your wallets on the floor

With the gold and necklaces, I love all that shit!

And if someone believes themself a hero or a jedi knight,

I'll make you crawl through your entire life like a millipede.

Now I'll go past slowly....

Have you seen? You make good puppies, nothing happens!

You're obedient, you little bastards!

Whoever has money and doesn't use it's a thief said Gandhi,

Now I want to speak with the manager! Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah I want to speak with him!

Unless you want to leave your son alone - alone -

With a poor wife weeping with him

Hello manager, I'm called Nico,

It's a pleasure to meet the people who do the job;

I wanted to tell you you just make me sick

And your daughter's a bitch, she'd go well with a blind man

But let's talk business, yes, let's talk business:

You're my slave now, obey or I'll shoot,

If you come back without having emptied the fucking tills,

You lose your head and I'll topple van Basten!"

I chose evil because good was banal,

God's given me an easy pistol to wield,

Maybe certain people must pay for it,

Maybe I'm not afraid to shoot,

And it'll probably not do any good,

I only understand this, I think I'm intelligent,

But I hear these voices and they leave me stuck like this.

A day in the life of Nico. Ulysses.

"Are you bleeding star? You don't feel sorry for anyone!

You want to know why I smoke, why I starve?

You want to see the video of a kid bullied online?

You want to know what they think about Columbine?

You wanna know? You don't wanna know but I'm talking!

You're lucky they don't pay me to do it!

I'm a worm, an armed Jiminy Cricket

And now salute your tanned friends in Montecarlo!

You want to know why people don't have any more ideas?

It's because they want it so.

And do you know what's funny?

It's that I'm talking about them, the question is "they who?"

Because who're they? Trying violence,

On your skin, because civilisation's decadence!

And this is only an act of intellectual freedom,

Freedom is telling people what they don't want to hear!

And before I came in, I called the cops,

Have I gotta have a shootout all alone?

And do you remember that fag Andy Warhol?

15 minutes and let's move on to history!"

God protect my enemies that need it!

Every day I will get bigger, don't end the dream!

Give only me the strength to steal an iris

Because whoever's winning now will feel invincible!

I made this record only to eat you face to face

And my name's so great that even saying it's a threat

I throw the gold in the water and fuck fame

I die loving the system but the system loves me too

I chose evil because good's banal,

God's given me an easy pistol to wield,

Maybe certain people must pay for it,

Maybe I'm not afraid to shoot,

And it'll probably not do any good,

I only understand this, I think I'm intelligent,

But I hear these voices and they leave me stuck like this.

A day in the life of Nico. Ulysses.

• Artist:lowlow