Comunisti col Rolex [English translation]

Mr. Suburbia gets angry when he sees Joe Bloggs make real money

He looks at you like Salvini* looks at a Tunisian Miss Padania

I'm always telling Fedez, "Don't take a selfie on your boat"

Because later come the thieves or the tax inspectors.

Take care to hide your savings like underage lovers

Or journalists will later put you in the independent papers

What they get off on is a question of design

Get yourself a castle with a vineyard not the penthouse at CityLife, Milan.

Making my own wine is culturally correct

Bio ice cream sponsor, political brioche

Only an electric car or a bicycle

J-Ax won't be buying himself a Mercedes or be getting in a Tesla

I take certain trips

Me, Boschi** and Guzzanti*** in the pool with their heels on

I'll reform "Lotta Continua"**** with Gianluca Vacchi

because membership of the Rotary Club is only for losers.

I know more than one gutter punk with a lawyer for a father, who pretends to be poor because it was never like that

I contradict myself like an armed pacifist

I'm a communist party member but I've never attended.

Guevara and Fidel Castro were collecting British motorcycles and Rolex watches

And a punk rocker's heart wants revolution but he's in love with a top model.

Enough of rap, rock, house, I pump out Manu Chao in the Range Rover

Vanity Fair gives me the cover

I sing "Bella Ciao": A nice hello, hello beautiful, a big hello

Communists with Rolex watches!

Tiziano Ferro bought himself the penthouse next to Fedez

with the money saved at dinner with the British tax authorities

If I open an account in Tokyo, the witch hunt begins

Even if in a press conference I say "I'm Japanese".

And the public tell the poor that become bourgeois

Not the stories about the governments and their extensive agreements with the banks

Exclusivity to incoherence belongs only to the Holy See

Which can give alms while driving around in a Mercedes.

I saw Paolo Brosio with Briatore*****

in a church off-shore looking to rediscover a religious feeling

At this point it doesn't make sense to be a businessman

You might as well open a travel agency for Medjugorje.

Son of an office worker that lost her job at 40

I made money with a pen and a bit of ink.

I should do like Jovanotti, billionaire at a loss

Be a vegan and then eat bresaola in secret.

Like Fred Vargas supported Battisti****** but Lucio^

like Berlinguer^^ always quoted Marx (but Groucho, not Karl)

I'm sailing on a golden sea after sacrifices and stress

I'm Columbus looking for American Express

Guevara and Fidel Castro were collecting British motorcycles and Rolex watches

And a punk rocker's heart wants revolution but he's in love with a top model.

Enough of rap, rock, house, I pump out Manu Chao in the Range Rover

Vanity Fair gives me the cover

I sing "Bella Ciao": A nice hello, hello beautiful, a big hello

Communists with Rolex watches!

A nice hello, nice hello, hello beautiful, a big hello

Communists with Rolex watches

A nice hello, nice hello, hello beautiful, a big hello

The truth is that I'll never make it as part of an elite

I'm vulgar and pretentious, I'm radical kitsch

No French nanny, I would go to my grandad's house

full of embalmed animals like in a horror movie.

The new communists are in fact the kings of luxury

But not known for contempt towards a Russian magnate

I take photos with your children that tear at my clothes

It's true that we're communists eaten by kids.

The truth is that some people will always hate you

You may as well let yourself be hated while doing what you really love

Because deep down my ideal is real socialism

The kind that's more and more social media and less and less sociable.

Guevara and Fidel Castro were collecting British motorcycles and Rolex watches

And a punk rocker's heart wants revolution but he's in love with a top model.

Enough of rap, rock, house, I pump out Manu Chao in the Range Rover

Vanity Fair gives me the cover

I sing "Bella Ciao": A nice hello, hello beautiful, a big hello

Communists with Rolex watches!

A nice hello, nice hello, hello beautiful, a big hello

Communists with Rolex watches

A nice hello, nice hello, hello beautiful, a big hello

Communists with Rolex watches

Etc.

• Artist:J-Ax & Fedez
• Album:Comunisti col Rolex (2017)