Sono solo canzonette [English translation]

I remember years ago

peeking inside a bar

I heard a jukebox that was playing

and in the dreams of children

the guitar was a sword

and the ones who didn't believable were a pirate!

and the desire to sing

and the desire to fly

perhaps then was when I got it

perhaps it was only madness

but it was the only way

to always say what I wanted

I could never become

chief executive officer

of the postal or rail services

I could never build a career

on the evening papers

also because I would end up in jail!

Never will anyone give me

their vote to speak

or to decide their future

in my group

they are all not serous people

which cannot be trusted

Look instead the scientists,

the doctors, the lawyers,

the herd of ministers and legislators!

Think that right on this moment

exactly while I am singing

they are working seriously!

for the doubts and the questions

that haunt your mind

but don't worry about them

they are at your service

and always, without hesitation

they will answer you

I don't have any answers

I only make rock'n' roll

if it suits you

I cannot do more than that

The party promoters

have given me another invitation

and they have told me that it ends badly

if I don't also come along

at the general meeting

of the great national holiday!

They said that I can't

refuse now

that I owe my success to them,

that I'm crazy and reckless

that I am an ungrateful

a subversive, a half criminal

But what should be done

I would not seem normal

but the instinct that makes me fly

there is no game or fiction

because the only illusion

is that of reality, of reason

but to those with bad intentions

always on a witch hunt

I say: No! This is not a serious thing

that's it, if you please

but let me vent

don't drive me into a corner

or with all the air in my lungs

I'll shout you: There is no fear!

But what politics, what culture,

they are only little songs

don't drive me into a corner

they're o...

they're o...

they're only little songs!