Pensa [English translation]

There have been men who have written pages

Notes from a life of inestimable courage

Irreplaceable because they denounced

The most corrupt of systems, too often ignored

Men or angels sent to earth to fight a war

Of feuds and families scattered like so many marbles

On an island of blood where, among so many marvels

Between lemon trees and sea-shells, massacres sons and daughters

Of a generation forced not to look

To talk in a low voice, to turn out the light

To comment quietly on each bullet in the air

Each body in a ditch

There have been men, who step by step

Have left a sign with courage and with duty

With dedication against an organised institution

“COSA NOSTRA ”

Your thing .. What is your thing?

What’s ours is the freedom to say

That eyes are made for looking

The mouth for speaking

The ears listen

Not just to music, not just to music

The head turns, adjusts the aim

It reasons

At times it condemns, at times it pardons

Simply

Think

Before you shoot

Think

Before you speak, before you judge, try to think

Think

That you can decide

Wait just a moment

A moment more

With your head between your hands

There have been men who died young

But mindful that their ideas

Would remain for centuries like hyperbole words

Intact and real like little miracles

Ideas of equality ideas of education

Against each man who exercises oppression

against his fellow man and against whoever’s weaker

Against whoever buries his conscience in cement

There have been men who have just carried on

While around them everything burned

Because basically this life has no meaning

If you’re afraid of a bomb or a pointed gun

Men pass by and a song passes by

But no one can stop the conviction

That no, justice isn’t only an illusion

Think

Before you shoot

Think

Before you speak, before you judge

Try to think

Think

That you can decide

Wait a just a moment

A moment more

With your head between your hands

Think

Think

That you can decide

Wait just a moment

A moment more

With your head between your hands

Think