L'anno che verrà [English translation]

Dear friend, I'm writing to you

So that I can take my mind off things for a while

And, since you're far away,

I'll write even harder.

Since you left

There is some big news.

The old year is finished now

But there's something wrong here yet.

We don't go out much in the evenings

Included when it's a holiday

And some people have put sacks

Of sand near the windows.

And we stay without talking

For weeks at an end

And those people who have nothing to say

have lots of time left.

But on television

They said that the new year

Will bring a transformation

And all of us are already waiting.

There will be Christmas three times

And it will be a holiday all day

Every Christ will come down from his cross

And the birds will come back too.

There will be food aplenty

And light the whole year long.

Even the mutes will be able to speak

Whereas the deaf are already doing that.

And people will make love

Each one as he pleases.

Even priests will be able to marry

But only at a certain age.

And without much ado

Some people will disappear.

Maybe they will be the cunning ones

And the idiots of any age.

You see, dear friend,

What I'm writing and telling you

And how happy I am

To be here on this moment.

You see, you see, you see,

You see, dear friend,

What one must invent

To be able to laugh it out

To be able to keep on hoping.

And if this year

Should pass in an instant,

You see, my friend,

How it becomes important

That I be present in this instant.

The year that's about to come

In a year, will be gone too.

I'm getting ready.

This is the news.

• Artist:Lucio Dalla
• Album:Caro amico ti scrivo (2002)