Un piccolo Chopin [English translation]

I buy you the piano,

my dad said, if you promise to me to study

Pull on the blankets

On Christmas' Eve

And in my dream

I already saw and played it

This is the music

It takes you away

And you become alone as a little Chopin

And my youth

Was been all an exercise

Near a window

While the others played football

By now, I was different

Life had another smell

This is the music that takes you away

And more you seek and more you find there

The key of your whys

And when it caresses

Music gives you vibrations

Of a girl's body

The first time you touch her breasts

From conservatoire

We graduated of hope

Necessary love

I felt strong near you

Little Chopin

'Cause it doesn't Christmas

'Cause I no longer want to play

This is the music, it takes you away

For this reason, I'm closed here yet

Waiting for myself

On the ebony and ivory

Of this not granted piano

I do my job

In the cabaret of the time which goes by

But when I come back home

I wear my tail-coat and I open my music sheet

This is my secret

Nobody knows that closed inside me

There is a little Chopin

Little Chopin

But this my concert

It's a scream among the stars and infinity

For who doesn't understand

That inside me there is alone and misunderstood

A little Chopin

• Artist:Marco Masini
• Album:T'Innamorerai (1993)