Io donna, Io persona [English translation]

I've been a cover-girl

In magazines for single men

Worried about holding

The breasts pushed well out

With a brandy between my legs

And a motorbike behind the back

At first I was happy

Then I was sorry

I woman, I am a person

Dejected as an object

Like a bed doll

I do not want to be a slave

And not even being a mistress

I want to be only

A woman, a person

I was an exemplary mother

Six children to be raised

An abortion every two years

And I shut up to bear

If my man beat me

The neighbors admired me

I vented my hate and my love

on my children...

I woman, I am a person

Dejected as an object

Like a bed doll

I do not want to be a slave

And not even being a mistress

I want to be only

A woman, a person

I was an austere widow

Always strong, always black

I have been an example for everyone

I never went out at night

So many men looked for me

As long as on a strange night

I opened my door

They called me a slut...

I woman, I am a person

Unsold on the road

But lifted up as a saint

I do not want to be a slave

And not even being a mistress

I want to be only

A woman, a person