Le donne di ora [English translation]

Today, first contact

with a woman is a little frightening

I think this is due to the fact

that today's women are a different species

I should be the stronger sex

I should be courting her

But it doesn't take long

To realise that she can do it all

So frightening, so frightening

Especially the women of today

Today, every woman has evolved

She faces things with great enthusiasm

Always, when you look at life

Believe above all else in her pragmatism

When, politely

I speak of an ideal world

She instantly falls asleep

She's heard it so many times before, she can't take it any more

So frightening, so frightening

Especially the women of today

So frightening, so frightening

Especially the women of today

Maybe, with how the world is going

this is not the right moment:

I am heartbroken

Sometimes I want to intervene

but unfortunately I don't really know how

I am a man who watches

with many pretensions and little energy

But it's also logical

that in a normal couple

everyone has their own interests

Even in the game of love

competition is always lurking

Maybe in our society

it's going a bit wrong for us

Maybe to make it better

we should live a bit further South

So frightening, so frightening

Especially the women of today

Just look at history

to see that women have been a bit oppressed

Maybe it's just me

but it seems that now they are less resigned to it

Certainly, they have little power

and this is unjust and vulgar

But when, one day, they have it

What will they do with it? God only knows.

So frightening, so frightening

Especially the women of today

Maybe, with how the world is going,

we are close to collapse

I am depressed

I so want to invent a life for myself

which is not so tiring and disheartening

But at the moment I'm unsure

and thinking of the future brings me down

But on the other hand,

women, who seem more fragile,

are physically very gifted

Often life is a bit hard

but in general, they are very healthy

I don't want to say

that they are doing away with us

but there do seem to be

more and more happy widows around

So frightening, so frightening

Especially the women of today

So frightening, so frightening

I have been unwise

I won't say any more

I am too frightened

• Artist:Giorgio Gaber
• Album:Le donne di ora