Un medico [English translation]

As a child I wanted to heal the cherry trees

when, with their red fruits, I thought they were injured

in my mind health had left them

with the flowers of snow that they had lost.

A dream, it was a dream but it did not last short

for this reason I swore that I would have become a physician

and not for a god, but not either as a game:

so that cherry trees could bloom again,

so that cherry trees could bloom again.

And when finally I was a physician

I didn't want to betray the boy for the man

and many came to me, and they were called "people"

sick cherry trees in every season.

And colleagues agreed, my colleagues were happy

reading in my heart me such a desire to love

they sent me the best of their customers

with the diagnosis on their face, the same for them all:

sick with hunger, unable to pay.

And then I realized, I had to figure out

that being a doctor is only a job

that science cannot be given away to the people

if you don't want to get sick of the identical evil,

if you don't want that the system starve you into submission .

And the reliable system is to starve you into submission,

in your children in your wife that already despises you,

therefore I closed in a bottle those flowers of snow,

the label said: elixir of youth .

And a judge, a judge with the face of a man

sent me to browse sunsets in prison

useless to the world and to my fingers

branded forever crook cheater,

Professor Dr. Crook Cheater.

• Artist:Fabrizio De André
• Album:Non al denaro non all’amore né al cielo (1971)