Scusa Mary [English translation]

While time was passing over our age

while a thousand songs were already ending

while the lazy Autumn sun was waking up

one morning, something between me and you was hatching

there was festivity in the air, and among other colors, blue

maybe there were other things, but there was you, too

and the cars full of people laughing

and bad things only in the movies we watched

Sorry, Mary, Sorry, Mary

but we were in love more than ever

There was the post-war period and the economic boom

while time was passing over our age

there was Prague, the Cia, NATO, Vietnam

there was a black man called Martin they killed

but others told us all those things

The '68 came, and then barricades

while Autumn was always hotter than Summer

and while the Beatles break up after Let It Be

In Greece, Papadopulos dances the sirtaki

Sorry, Mary, Sorry, Mary

but we were in love more than ever

Sunday without the car because of the austerity

while time was passing over our age

Louis Armstrong and Neruda are no longer with us

there were other things, but most of all, there was you

and while the Forest Service attempts a golpe at the National television

there had been a concert on the Island of Wight

Sorry, Mary, Sorry, Mary

but how lucky, falling in love like us

• Artist:Rino Gaetano
• Album:E io ci sto