Pensa [English translation]

There were men who wrote pages

Notes of a priceless lifetime

Irreplaceable because they denounced

The most corrupt systems too often ignored

Men or angels sent to earth

To fight a war of feuds and of families

Scattered like so many balls on an island of blood

That among so many wonders, among lemons and seashells

They're slaughtering sons and daughters of a generation

Forced not to look, forced to speak in a whisper

To turn off the light, to comment in silence

Each and every bullet in the air, each and every body in a ditch

There were men that little by little

Have left a mark with courage and with commitment

With devotion against an organized institution

Our thing … your thing … what is yours?

The freedom to speak ... it's ours

Because our eyes were made to see

Our mouth to speak, the ears to listen

Not only music, not only music

The head turns and adjusts the aim, it's clever

At times it condemns, at times it simply forgives

Think before firing

Think before speaking and judging, try to think

Think that you can decide

Wait a moment, only a moment more

With your head between your hands

There were men that died young

But aware that their ideas will last for centuries

As important words, unbroken and real as little miracles

Ideas of equality, ideas of education

Against every man that exercises oppression

Against everyone against a weaker one

Against he who buries his conscience in the cement

Think before firing

Think before speaking and judging, try to think

Think that you can decide

Wait a moment, only a moment more

With your head between your hands

There were men that continued

Although everything around was burning

Because, in the end, this life has no meaning

If you fear a bomb or a pointed gun

Men pass and a song passes

But no one will ever be able to stop the belief

That justice is not only an illusion

Think before firing

Think before speaking and judging, try to think

Think that you can decide

Wait a moment, only a moment more

With your head between your hands

Think

• Artist:Fabrizio Moro
• Album:Pensa (2007)