Irene [English translation]

Oh, sure it can seem pointless

A station to someone who never goes anywhere

But the trains who really take you away

Don't have flowers on their seats

But from the outside you can't tell

You have to go in to know where you're going

Irene, don't wait anymore

The beach was gold just to deceive us

With the advantage of not thinking about it

It's not the time of the fox

Now the crow is my God

This nothing in my hand is finally me

Run away, away, run away

But you have to do it on your own

Without asking anyone

Like you do, always do

With everything you have

Run away, away, run away

With me or against me

It doesn't matter, as long as

You try, only by yourself

To choose who you are

The owls you carry on your shoulder

They eat your eyes and you don't send them away

(There's the advantage of not thinking about it)

All your life they have told you: "On your own you can't"

They have told you: "You'll thank us..."

And sometimes the music doesn't come anymore

And then I would like you to understand me

To look with anger with me

At all the bourgeois time

Lost on cultivating water lilies

Without ever understanding men and ideas

Run away, away, run away

But you have to do it on your own

Without asking anyone

Like you do, always do

With everything you have

Run away, away, run away

With me or against me

It doesn't matter, as long as

You try, only by yourself

To choose who you are

• Artist:Roberto Vecchioni
• Album:Ipertensione (1975)