Notte prima degli esami [English translation]

I remember four boys

with a guitar

and a piano on their shoulders.

Like the pine trees of Rome

life does not break them.

This night is still ours.

How do secretaries

with glasses

come to marry lawyers?

The bombs of the six

do no harm,

it's only the day that dies,

it's only the day that dies

The exams are near

and you are too far away

from my room.

Your father looks like Dante

and your brother like Ariosto.

Tonight at the usual place

the moon seems strange.

It will be that I don't see you

for a week.

Matura1, if I only passed you before,

my hands on your breast,

your mystery is thick,

and your sin is original

like your American pants

Please, don't stop my hands

on your tense thighs,

shut off like churches,

when you want to confess.

The night before the exams,

night of the police,

certainly someone

got you carried away,

Night of the mothers and the fathers

with baby bottles in their hands,

Night of the grandmothers at the windows

but this night is still ours

Night of the young actors

of cold pizzas and of calzones

Night of dreams of trophies and of champions

Night of tears and prayers

Mathematics will never be my skill

and the planes

flying high over New York and Moscow

But this night is still ours

Claudia, don't tremble,

I could never do you wrong,

if love is love

If they turn on the lights

here on the platform

But how many friends are around

who have the desire to sing?

Perhaps to change yourself

Certainly a bit different

But still with the desire to change

If love is love

If love is love

If love is love

If love is love

If love is love...

1. The name of the final exam