Lyrics of Il Vecchio E Il Bambino - Carla Bruni

Il Vecchio E Il Bambino - Carla Bruni
Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Il Vecchio E Il Bambino, artist - Carla Bruni. Album song Comme si de rien n'était, in the genre Иностранная авторская песня
Date of issue: 10.07.2008
Record label: Teorema
Song language: Italian

Il Vecchio E Il Bambino

(original)
Un vecchio e un bambino si preser per mano
E andarono insieme incontro alla sera.
La polvere rossa si alzava lontano
E tutto brillava di luce non vera.
L’immensa pianura sembrava arrivare
Fin dove l’occhio di un uomo poteva guardare,
E tutto d’intorno non c’era nessuno
Solo il tetro contorno di torri di fumo.
I due camminavano, il giorno cadeva
Il vecchio parlava e piano piangeva.
Con l’anima assente, con gli occhi bagnati
Seguiva il ricordo di miti passati.
I vecchi subiscon le ingiurie degli anni
Non sanno distinguere il vero dai sogni,
I vecchi non sanno, nel loro pensiero
Distinguer nei sogni il falso dal vero.
E il vecchio diceva, guardando lontano,
''Immagina questo coperto di grano,
Immagina i frutti, immagina i fiori
E pensa alle voci e pensa ai colori.
E in questa pianura fin dove si perde
Crescevano gli alberi e tutto era verde,
Cadeva la pioggia, segnavano i soli
Il ritmo dell’uomo e delle stagioni.''
Il bimbo ristette, lo sguardo era triste,
E gli occhi guardavano cose mai viste,
E poi disse al vecchio con voce sognante
''Mi piaccion le fiabe, raccontane altre
(translation)
An old man and a child held hands
And they went together to meet in the evening.
The red dust rose away
And everything shone with untrue light.
The immense plain seemed to arrive
As far as a man's eye could see,
And all around there was nobody
Just the bleak outline of smoke towers.
The two walked, the day was falling
The old man spoke and cried softly.
With an absent soul, with wet eyes
The memory of past myths followed.
The old suffer the ravages of the years
They can't tell truth from dreams,
The old people don't know, in their thinking
Distinguish false from true in dreams.
And the old man said, looking away,
'' Imagine this covered in grain,
Imagine the fruits, imagine the flowers
And he thinks of the voices and thinks of the colors.
And in this plain as far as it gets lost
The trees grew and everything was green,
The rain was falling, the suns marked
The rhythm of man and the seasons. ''
The child stood still, the look was sad,
And his eyes looked at things never seen before,
And then he said to the old man in a dreamy voice
'' I like fairy tales, tell others
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Artist lyrics: Carla Bruni