Ideali [English translation]

Rent is too high

Ceilings are too low

Rooms too few, a lot of kids

Public housing, underprivileged children

Selling drugs among

The abandoned buildings

Parents warned us

"Don't take the bus,

Don't hang out with the people there

Those that don't

Have a job

Money sucking parasites

Of our society"

Even we aren't perfect

Italian and my faults

Are they different?

I would call them brothers

Racist Italians

Even among themselves

They would divide the country in crazy pieces

Our fathers' fathers

Have fought to unite us

Don't try to separate us

The government plays with our money

Like they're playing a game of Monopoly

Don't you see

Don't you feel

Don't you think

It's just an ideal

You lost

The day you chose yourself

Over those who need you

Don't accept yourself

As you can accept others

You say that you feel bad

But outside, they die of hunger

Thieves are

Of all races and colors

But these suits in Italy

They're the worst

There are those like you

That make themselves to be an asshole

There are those like me

That go away from here

I'm not an entrepreneur

My business is to survive

But in this country

It is impossible to stay

Graduates in theory

But not in practice

Seeking work

But there is none

Don't you see

Don't you feel

Don't you think

It's just an ideal

You lost

The day you chose yourself

Over those who need you

It's not true

That you can't change anything

Start with yourself

And you'll see the difference

The first step is

Always the most difficult

But once it's done

You'll start winning

Prejudice always

Makes a man less free

Open your mind

And remain poised

Because alone you stay

If you don't have ideals

Like a phoenix in flight

In which you burn the wings

2x:

Don't you see

Don't you feel

Don't you think

It's just an ideal

You lost

The day you chose yourself

Over those who need you

Over those who need you