Lyrics of Il Frate - Francesco Guccini

Il Frate - Francesco Guccini
Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Il Frate, artist - Francesco Guccini. Album song L'Isola Non Trovata, in the genre Фолк-рок
Date of issue: 31.12.2006
Record label: EMI Music Italy
Song language: Italian

Il Frate

(original)
Lo chiamavano «Il frate», il nome di tutta una vita
Segno di una fede perduta, di una vocazione finita
Lo vedevi arrivare vestito di stracci e stranezza
Mentre la malizia dei bimbi rideva della sua saggezza…
Dopo un bicchiere di vino, con frasi un po' ironiche e amare
Parlava in tedesco e in latino, parlava di Dio e Schopenhauer
E parlava, parlava, con me che lo stavo a sentire
Mentre la sera d’estate non voleva morire…
Viveva di tutto e di niente, di vino che muove i ricordi
Di carità della gente, di dei e filosofi sordi…
Chiacchiere d’un ubriaco con salti di tempo e di spazio
Storie di sbornie e di amori che non capivano Orazio…
E quelle sere d’estate sapevan di vino e di scienza
Con me che lo stavo a sentire con colta benevolenza
Ma non ho ancora capito, mentre lo stavo a ascoltare
Chi fosse a prendere in giro, chi dei due fosse a imparare…
Ma non ho ancora capito, fra risa per donne e per Dio
Se fosse lui il disperato o il disperato son io…
Ma non ho ancora capito con la mia cultura fasulla
Chi avesse capito la vita, chi non capisse ancor nulla…
(translation)
They called him "Il frate", the name of a whole life
Sign of a lost faith, of a finished vocation
You saw him arrive dressed in rags and strangeness
While the malice of the children laughed at his wisdom ...
After a glass of wine, with somewhat ironic and bitter phrases
He spoke in German and Latin, he spoke of God and Schopenhauer
And he talked, talked, with me who was listening to him
While on a summer evening he didn't want to die ...
He lived on everything and nothing, on wine that moves memories
Of people's charity, of deaf gods and philosophers ...
Chat of a drunkard with jumps of time and space
Stories of hangovers and loves that Horace did not understand ...
And those summer evenings smelled of wine and science
With me who was listening to him with cultured benevolence
But I still didn't understand, as I listened to him
Who was the fool, which of the two was learning ...
But I still haven't understood, between laughter for women and for God
If he was the desperate or the desperate, I am ...
But I still don't get it with my bogus culture
Who had understood life, who still did not understand anything ...
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Artist lyrics: Francesco Guccini