Uomini soli [English translation]

You find them where people

Travel and go to make phone calls

With an aftershave lotion that tastes of rain

And their briefcase

Lost in the 'Corriere della Sera' 1

in the coming and going of a waitress

Why does evening come every day?

Sometimes a man is alone

Because there are strange thoughts in his mind

Because he is afraid of sex

Or because he craves for success

Because he wants to write the novel he keeps inside

Because life has him over a barrel

Or because in a false world

He is a true man

Chorus:

O God of cities and of immensity

If it is true that you exist and tavelled more than we did

Let's see if one can learn this life

And change it a bit, perhaps, before it changes us

Let's see if it's possible that we love ourselves as we are

Not raping ourselves with obsessions and resentments

Because this life knocks down and who has been knocked

Sleeps or dies, or makes love

There are men who are alone for thirst for adventure

Because they studied to become priests

Or because they spent twenty years in jail

Because of mothers who never weaned them

Because of women who flipped them over, and lost them

Or just because they are different

Chorus:

O God of cities and of immensity

If it is true that you exist and tavelled more than we did

Let's see if one can learn these women

And change them a bit for their sake, change them a bit for ours

But, o God of cities and of immensity

Perhaps you exist and have no problems

But down here we are not in heaven and if a man

Loses the thread, he is only a lonely man

1. Il Corriere della Sera is an Italian newspaper.