Come gli Area [English translation]

I'd like to play like Area 1

the Italian band

but the songs are very difficult

the ones by this Italian group

I am not able

to play songs by Area

because those are impossible tunes,

those songs by Area.

Well, you know what,

I am going to write a song

that resembles an Area song

I study it well

extremely well

and then I sing it for you.

How brilliant were Area,

International Popular Group

Demetrio 2 used to sing any sort of music

backed by musicians who played big time.

They explored new types of music

and people listened

an audience made up

of young communists

hippies and junkies.

As everyone knows

the fascist audience

never understood a damn thing about music.

Yes, but the comrades 3

when it's time to produce some cash...

everything goes quiet.

If there's something I regret

is that I never got to see them playing live.

back then I was just a kid

there's no chance my parents would have taken me

to an Area concert.

So many hippies

so many communists

too many people that don't pay the ticket

retail revenues are scarce

and tell me, in the end what do you eat, your instruments?

Well, in the end this song in the style of Area

turned out okay

If Area actually wrote it

it would have been a mess.

You can sing this

even if you are not Stratos.

you can play this

even if you are not Tofani, Fariselli, Tavolazzi, Capiozzo

even if you are not Area.

1. Area is an Italian progressive rock band: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_(band) 2. singer Demetrio Stratos, leader of Area in the 1970s 3. compagni = communist sympathizers

• Artist:Elio e le Storie Tese