Smisurata preghiera [English translation]

High on the shipwrecks

from the viewpoint of the towers

bent and distant on the elements of the disaster

from the things that happen above the words

celebration of nothing

along an easy wind

of satiety of impunity

Scandal metal

of weapons in use and disused

to drive the column

of pain and smoke

that leaves the endless battles at nightfall

the majority are the majority are

praying the rosary

of petty ambitions

of millennial fears

of endless tricks

cultivating quietly

the horrible variety

of its arrogance

the majority are

as a disease

as unfortunate

as anesthesia

as a habit

for those traveling towards obstinate and contrary direction

with his special brand of special despair

and rejected moves between the vomit of the last steps

to bring to death a drop of splendor

of inhumanity of truth

for those who cared for leprosy in Aqaba with a fake scepter

and sowed his devastating passage of jealousies and of children

with improbable names of tango singers

in an extensive program of eternity

Lord remember these servants

disobedient of the laws of the pack

do not forget their faces

that after so much skid

it is just right that luck will help them

as an oversight

as an anomaly

as a distraction

as a duty

• Artist:Fabrizio De André
• Album:Anime salve (1996)