Uomini soli [English translation]

You meet them where people

travel and go to make phone calls,

with aftershave that smells of rain

and the briefcase,

lost inside the "Corriere della Sera"1

in the back and forth of a waitress.

But why, every day evening comes?

At times a man is alone

because, in his head, he has strange notions,

because he's afraid of sex

or for the craving for success,

to write the novel he has inside,

because life has already placed him against the wall,

or because, in a false world,

he's a true man.

God of the cities and of the immensity,

if it's true that you exist and have travelled more than us,

let's see if this life can be taught,

and, at least, change it a bit before it changes us.

Let's see if we can get loved as we are

without being violated with neuroses and jealousies,

because this life extends and the extended one

is sleeping or dead or is making love.

There are men who are alone because of a thirst for adventure,

because they studied to be priests,

or for twenty years spent in jail,

because of mothers that have never weaned them,

because of women who revolted and lost them

or just because they are different gods.2

God of the cities and of the immensity,

if it's true that you exist and have travelled more than us,

let's see if these women can be taught

and a bit change them for their sake, and a bit change them for our sake.

But, God of the cities and of the immensity,

perhaps you exist and problems you don't have,

but, down here, we are not in heaven and if a man loses the thread he's only a lonely man.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corriere_della_Sera2. "dei diversi" could also be interpreted as "different ones".

• Artist:Pooh
• Album:Uomini soli (1990)