Un gelato al limon [English translation]

A lemon ice cream

sunk to the bottom of a city

A lemon ice cream, true lemon, do you like it?

While another summer is passing.

Freedom and multicolored beads

this is what I'll give you

and the lusciousness of desperate lives

this is the gift I'll give you

Woman, entering my life

with a suitcase of puzzlement,

don't be afraid that it's already over

this man can give you lots more.

A lemon ice cream

sunk to the bottom of a city

A lemon ice cream, true lemon, do you like it?

While another summer is passing.

I offer you a shower at the public baths

which are a lukewarm chasm

where the voices of your city

thunder like oceans in the night.

And I offer youthe afternoon moon

for the arab dream you like

and my hand, holding yours firmly

for you, a woman who can't escape me anymore.

And a lemon ice cream...

And I offer you the cleverness of electricians

so that at least some light wll shine

in our room in those grim hotels

where the hot night will melt

like a lemon ice cream...

• Artist:Paolo Conte