Quale Allegria [English translation]

What happiness

If I've looked for you for a whole life without finding you

Without even having the satisfaction

Of having you to see you go away

What happiness

What happiness

If I can't even picture you in my mind anymore

Without knowing if to fly or to crawl, I mean,

I don't know where to look for you anymore

What happiness

What happiness

Without pretending to be asleep

With your cheek on mine

Knowing instead that tomorrow

"Hi, how are you", a pat on the shoulder and nothing more...

What happiness

What happiness

Changing face a hundred times

To pretend to be a child

To be a child

With a welcoming smile

Laughing, singing, making noise

I mean, pretending it's always Carnival...

Always Carnival

Without happiness

Going out early in the morning

The head full of thoughts

Avoiding the cars,

Newspapers, going back home in a hurry, today's the same as yesterday

Without happiness

Even on trains and airplanes

Or on a stage

Bowing to those in front of you

And there's many and they clap their hands for you.

Without happiness

Together in a bed without peace

Without anything more to invent

Being forced to even hurt each other

To be able to sweetly forgive each other

And go on

With happiness

Pretending that in the end in the whole world

There's people with your same problems

And then starting an evening club

For people with a sunstroke, crazy and a bit dumb

Pretending the challenge is

To get healthy to the grand finale

While Andrea's ready

With a cane and a hundred teeth

Asking you to pay

For his badly eaten meals

The stolen sleep, the forced thefts

For having been killed

Fifteen times down the avenue

For fifteen years on Christmas Eve...