Sognando Chernobyl [English translation]

Oh my Lord

tell me how we can do it

to avoid

the world from blowing up

That night when you arrived

you told us not to do to others

what you don't want others to do to you

but nobody of us listened to you...

We fiends had, to make a career,

even killing to succeed...

My soul gets lost in your silence

and we no longer know where to go

we all together will blow up, boom!

But surely not everyone will raise to where you are

it'll be like a big party for this

world which will explode

though not for those who killed and slaughtered and then raped even children

Earth is polluted by now

by the strong heat of dishonest people

that makes glaciers melt

The whiteness of glaciers will disappear

and then the lights of the cities

We all together will blow up, boom!

A real actual atomic attack

in the name of energy

the inevitable melting...

of Greenland's glaciers

will then cause the disappearance

of beautiful cities like... Venice1

And sea water will rise higher

and it'll submerge the cities

We all together will blow up, boom!

We'll finally be able to breathe without that gas

we've already been polluted with

from that nuclear waste that2

that in the name of free market

and globalisation

it's possible to bring cancer in the houses

of citizens dreaming of Chernobyl

And its sons already scattered around the world

to pollute what we then drink

We all together will blow up, boom!

With the French that are the first and Germans

then immediately afterwards, who are first cousins

of that Chernobyl that burst

and in Italy illicit * politicians are already despairing... pro-nuclearid3

who don't feel modern enough if the third to die are the Italians

In Texas... there's a State

that kills you and nobody

arrests the executioner...

while he injects

poison inside of you

he's not yet aware that this is his own end

and he himself is more than a killer

We all together will blow up, boom!

And all the arsonists of the woods will be kissed by fire

and between flames

All of those builders will celebrate

who, with their dirty construction industry,

have razed Europe to the ground

and it'll lose its identity

in the emptiness of holy human rights

We all together will blow up, boom!

And with the murderers also the judges that absolve them

under the name of mitigating circumstances, aggravating factors are already disappearing

even when these people kill, slaughter and rape their own sons

We all together will blow up, boom!

All those Cain-like sons of Herod mayors will blow up too

that with their petty councils are

themselves the soul of true terror

the instigators of those cement castings...

which buried vegetable gardens...

and the beauties of shippings

Earth will be barren and deserted

it won't be possible to breathe anymore.

1. Due to sea level rising, Venice, which has already issues with periodical floods, will be submerged in some years.2. there's no verb in this sentence3. in English this word should be in place of the asterisk for the sentence to make sense, but to keep the rhythm of the song, i let the word where it was. Also, "pronuclearide" doesn't exist in italian, but -ide makes it sound as if it was a chemical/biological cathegory or a type of organism.

• Artist:Adriano Celentano
• Album:2008 L'animale [CD 2]