Il comico [Sai che risate] [English translation]

I was also normal,

in a previous life

they asked me "what can you do?"

"I can make people laugh",

Luckily

I didn't join the military

Yes, thank goodness,

you know the laughter...

There is who doesn't know Dante,

who has everything to learn,

who is happy when he cries,

who dresses up as a soldier in Carnival,

I hide myself among people,

yes, in Carnival I don't know what to do.

You, dressed up like a girl,

prisoner, you want to escape

from a perfidious queen

so serious to feel sick

I can't tell you a single word,

I'm not so special,

but if you laugh it means

that I can do at least one thing

if I jump into a flowerbed,

I fall and I don't

get injured.

Your eye smiles but your heart's crying,

you're so beautiful but you'd like to die,

you dreamt to be found

on a coral beach on a morning

by the son of a pirate,

I wonder why you did wake up...

Memories chase each others

like dogs into the courtyard

and you can't even realise that,

like a fool I would like to make you fall in love,

no please don't go,

if you can please stay

until tomorrow...

here, dressed up like a girl,

prisoner, you want to escape

from a perfidious queen,

with your immortal prince.

I can't tell you a single word,

I'm not so special,

but if you laugh it means

that I can do at least one thing

if I jump into a flowerbed,

I fall and I don't...

And your eye smiles but your heart's crying,

you're so beautiful but you'd like to die,

you dreamt to be found

on a coral beach on a morning

by the son of a pirate,

I wonder why you did wake up...

And the world laughs if my heart's crying,

you are so beautiful but you would disappear

among all these faces

as if with you even pain disappeared,

without leaving traces.

Your eye smiles but your heart's crying,

you're so beautiful but you wish you were dead,

you dreamt to be found

on a coral beach on a morning

by the son of a pirate,

I wonder why you did wake up...

• Artist:Cesare Cremonini
• Album:La teoria dei colori (2012)