I mostri che abbiamo dentro [English translation]

It has a certain effect: not quite understanding

from where each of your reactions is born.

And you’re living, never knowing

in your depths, what you are

what you are.

The monsters within us,

that live inside every man

hidden in the subconscious

are an atavistic1 call.

The monsters within us,

that wander in every mind

are our darkest instincts

and inevitably

we must come to terms with them.

The monsters within us,

silent and suggestive,

are the selfishness gene

that without ceremony

dominates and conquers.

The monsters within us

push us towards the violence

that almost by symbiosis2

has glued itself

to our existence.

Our civil lives,

our idea of justice and equality,

our social cohesion

is threatened

by the monsters that are our essence.

The monsters within us

The monsters within us

The monsters within us

make us languish

in front of that thing

that we shamelessly

call love.

The monsters within us

are insatiable and foreboding;

they are power at all costs,

but also those who hate it

only out of envy.

The monsters within us

inspire the great dream

of a stern and just God

with the mythical necessity

for Allah and for Jesus Christ.

The monsters within us

instill twisted ideas

and a taste for the sadistic and morbid

before images of death.

Our conscious lives,

our faith in what is right and beautiful

is an apparent balance

that’s threatened

by the monsters that we have in our

brains.

The monsters within us

are growing all over the world.

The monsters within us

are devastating us.

The monsters within us,

that live in every mind,

that are born in every land,

inevitably

lead us to war.

1. characterized by reversion to something ancient or ancestral2. Biology: Interaction between two different organisms living in close physical association, typically to the advantage of both.

• Artist:Giorgio Gaber
• Album:Io non mi sento italiano