La frontiera [English translation]

A voice, louder than the other, talked from the balcony

A crowd, larger than the other, decided what do do

And the time came when this country had a single color

A line, straighter than the other, closed the border

Two dancers injured their feet on a barbed wire

With one leg, more crippled than the other, we tried to flee

With a skin of a different color we mixed our veins

Found, beaten and brought onto a snow field

And our blood, falling, seemed to have the same color

It was for fear of the execution or for pain

That, with an arm colder than the other, I held my love tight

She told me "You're cold, there's still warmth between my legs"

We started making love in front of the soldiers

She said, shivering "Let them see the way they were born,

Let them see how human beings were born"

With the eyes in each other's eyes we went to look

At two sheets of ice left by the blizzard

Suddenly blown by the first beams of spring

The soldier, blinder than the other, started to aim

And the one, more one-armed than the other, was ready to shoot

But the mutest soldier of all began to speak:

"Stop, lower your rifles, look at them well,

They're complaining to each other, they're all contorted,

Now they're falling to the ground, look at them, they're dead"

The eagle saw the serpent slithering on the snow

The soldiers, in a single line, were gone

While we had just arrived, just been reborn