Una faccia in prestito [English translation]

With your face, borrowed

from another one, while, even if it suits you,

on the other hand ,you’d like to have your own one

to offer to the public, who looks

at you in the same way as

they look at a Carnival mask,

but meanwhile, they know that you

are not so.

Because your face of long ago

keeps here, printed

into your manners, in your

heartbeats and in your being distingued,

in the old passion,

in the temptation of being.

Do not cry, you jerk, just laugh and go ahead!

I miss a cardigan,

a sweet blue cardigan

in which there was a naïve guy

enchanted by a tremendous artist.

You stood behind the scenes, flooded

by swing and tears…

Do not cry, you jerk, just laugh and go ahead!

• Artist:Paolo Conte