Adelante adelante [English translation]

On the state highway

a tractor trailer loaded with salt speeds away.

Forward! Forward!

There's a man behind the wheel,

with those eyes he looks like a devil.

Forward! Forward!

He's arriving, he's far away,

he's at the end of this table.

[At the end] of this frickin' plain

of this boundless land

that already mistakes the day for the night,

and departure for return,

wealth for noise,

rights for favours,

innocents for criminals,

and rights for a carnival.

On the state highway

a tractor trailer loaded with salt speeds away.

From Turin to Palermo,

from the sky to hell

from the Olympic stadium1 to the Quirinal2.

From Turin to Palermo,

from future to modernity

from factories to fishing lamps.

In this land that with no rivers left,

in this land with a lot of smoke.

Among these people with no heart left,

and this money without smell,

and these roads without law,

and these stables without a herd left,

with no fathers left to remember

and with no children to respect.

On the state highway

a tractor trailer loaded with salt rushes past.

Forward! Forward!

There's a man behind the wheel,

there's a shadow on the plain.

Forward! Forward!

The destiny is far away

at the end of the adventure.

It hides in a dust cloud,

at the horizon of a downpour,

in petrol vapour,

it becomes music in the morning,

and South American wonders,

and sandwich filling without bread

a rainbow under the stairs

heaven during a thunderstorm.

On the state highway

a tractor trailer loaded with salt speeds away.

1. Main sport facility in Rome 2. Official residence of the President of the Italian Republic, also in Rome

• Artist:Francesco De Gregori
• Album:Canzoni d'amore (1992)