Non può morire un'idea [English translation]

You see how it is?

it ends that

something does not go by itself

to die

it stays inside you

it moves with you

it walks

it breathes your strength and on the skin

it writes the name it gives you

you see how

you see?

a man doesn't go die on his own

it turns into a thought

it feeds on you

and speaks for you

It buys your mind

blows up the defenses

It silences your accusations

It makes you breathe just an hour

then returns again and again

It lives with you

It lives

silent inside you

but lives

and if it lives, it's on you

if it dies, it's of you

and talks about you

and it grows accustomed to an idea

that basically you want it alive

and lives with you

It lives

opens inside you

then lives

and waits for the best time

to grow again

it finishes with your day

and starts again when you can not

send it away.

An Idea can't die

You make it die and it lives, lives, lives

It goes silent in you

It lives in you

It lives with you

It lives

silent inside you

but it lives

and it waits for the best time

to grow again.

• Artist:Ivano Fossati
• Album:La casa del serpente (1977)