| Between «krapfen» and «boiate» the strange hours have flown by
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| Grasso, the bus follows me along the avenue
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| And dawn is a punch in the face towards which I extend my arms
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| The world breaks out outside Porta San Vitale
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| And in via Petroni they wake up
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| They prepare books and coffee
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| And I dance with Snoopy and with Linus
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| An Argentine tango with caschè!
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| If I were more cat, if I were a little more vagabond
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| I would see in this sun, I would see the dawn and the world inside
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| But the dress has to be dirty and the vest has to be creased:
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| May mom find me clean here at dawn in via Fabbri 43!
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| The musical geniuses announced by the newspapers
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| They officiated and the sacred verses sang
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| Electric go crazy, dreams and illnesses heal
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| They are poets, saints, thaumaturges and vati:
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| With joy and trembling I follow them
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| From the bottom of my city
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| Then closed the threshold I give vent
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| To my ugly desire… I listen to Bach!
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| If only I faced my life as death
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| I would have clowns, janissaries, dwarfs to amaze your court
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| But imperious voices call me and I have to go back because
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| I have a place as an old jester here in via Paolo Fabbri 43!
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| The witty intellectuals cut pieces and manuals
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| Then, exhausted, they take cynicism treatments
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| Their faces are pale and have faint smiles
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| Only if we are talking about structuralism
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| After all, I like them
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| Since I met Descartes:
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| But he thinks if the songs
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| Roland Barthes reviewed them for me!
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| If you were an academic, you were a teacher or a doctor
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| I would honor you in toga with fifteen honorary degrees
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| But at school I was poor in Latin and "pop" is not for me:
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| I'll graduate in singing and wine here in via Paolo Fabbri 43!
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| Jorge Luis Borges promised me the other night
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| To speak personally with the "Persian"
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| But the poet's sky is a bit crowded these days
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| Maybe I'll have a job as an usher or as a scribe:
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| I'll have to polish your mirrors
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| I will transcribe quatrains to Kayyam
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| But a laurel of lesser genius
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| For me, on his honor, he will not fail ...
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| If I had the courage, if I opened the doors completely
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| I'd make Greek fires and turning them for your forehead
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| But you know what I think of the weather and what he thinks of me:
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| Be wise as I am happy here in via Paolo Fabbri 43!
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| The unhappy little girl met with Alice
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| At a summit for popular singing
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| Marinella wasn't there, she lives her life in the dance hall
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| And she has other things on her mind to think about:
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| But my drunks don't change
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| Only now do they drink more
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| And "the friar" certainly does not stop
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| To be a speaker on TV
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| If I were a poet, if I were better and more beautiful
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| I would have French ribbons and frills for your hat
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| But even my heroes are poor, they wonder too many why:
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| Already drunk in the morning they wake me up screaming in via Fabbri 43!
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| The heroes on Kawasaki with colored sweaters
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| Van running on the streets blondes and in a hurry
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| Personally austere, I dress in blue because I hate black
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| And I'm also afraid of riding a bicycle:
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| Discarded at the jet-set lever
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| I don't cry, but I buy the Clarks
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| If I have to emigrate to America
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| Like my grandfather, I take the tram!
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| If everything came out of me, if I opened the gates completely
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| I would make garlands with words to adorn your hair
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| But mothers and morals close me
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| Back to play with me:
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| I have a party, with cats and poets
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| Here at dawn in via Fabbri 43! |