Sette Vizi Capitale [English translation]

North, South, West, East, Rome is

So big that at night it takes you, swallows you

It fucks the mind

A giant that lulls you among the cries that it doesn't hear

It buys you, sells you, raises you, puts you down

It uses you if it's needed, rewards you, loses you

Who leaves, who goes down, who bluffs, goes high

Cold as the North Pole, Sahara

In your sheets, tonight that you're not here

As naked as Rome and that's how I'd want you

From the sea it crosses the sky like thw water and the river

You've never had fears

Women like her that ties me to her ropes

Tight, going with lighted candles

As black as a Sanpietrino1, as white as marble

Like dew drops they reflect my gaze

Harsh Rome, harsh Rome

Harsh Rome

As naked as beauty, as big as Rome

Sacred and dissolute, Rome loves and it doesn't forgive

Rome eats you like a barracuda

Naked, naked, naked Rome

As naked as beauty, as big as Rome

Sacred and dissolute, Rome loves and it doesn't forgive

Rome eats you like a barracuda

Naked, naked, naked Rome

East, west, Mistral, Sirocco

Roses, winds, thorns, a toll

I stop, sunset, buildings till the sea

Seven deadly sins2, it feels like drowning

In the white and black of a memory that doesn't belong to me

In the midst of siren songs, as cold as hyenas

Where the thirst for vengeance wears tailored silks

Blessed Rome, sometimes Christ, sometimes Jude

Rome, barbarian and cultured, a complex DNA

This is what Rome does, it seduces on the entrance

As sad as a tango, in gold and mud

Rome is a pas de deaux vaulting on the asphalt

Rome is a tired face, a Madonna with tears

Jealous, intrusive, soul keeper

Curious, lazy, cheater, prayer

Rome, dirty hands in a stoup

As naked as beauty, as big as Rome

Sacred and dissolute, Rome loves and it doesn't forgive

Rome eats you like a barracuda

Naked, naked, naked Rome

As naked as beauty, as big as Rome

Sacred and dissolute, Rome loves and it doesn't forgive

Rome eats you like a barracuda

Naked, naked, naked Rome

Harsh Rome, harsh Rome

Harsh Rome

Harsh Rome, harsh Rome

Harsh Rome

As naked as beauty, as big as Rome

A careful mother that beats you and caresses you

A tired worker, a business man, a criminal

You'd want to be the favourite child tonight

But you're just like the others, tired faces at the bus stop

Eyes down, hands in the pockets, thinking back about you day

All that you have, you had to work for it

No privileges, capital mafia style

Those you have around you, they gave a price to their lives

A daily pay to get consumed, piece by piece

Then you raise your eyes, you see Rome

And those who really lives this city, find a meaning for everything again

And they don't ever want to leave, they don't ever want to leave

They don't ever want to leave

1. Sanpietrini are stones made of black basalt, they're used in the typical pavement in Rome2. "Sette vizi capitale" is a wordplay, "deadly sins" are called "vizi capitali" in Italian, changing it to "capitale" creates a tie to Rome, the capital city

• Artist:Piotta