MISTER LEI - ITALIA MESTA
Channel: rosy tancredi
Date: 2012-04-11

Mister Lei - Italia Mesta
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Melancholy Italy

It's time to sing the actions
of a melancholy Italy
which built the wall of Berlin
with the consent of a crooked government,
every right has been erased
only duty remains in this diseased state.
The constitution is the faith of an idiot
who takes knocks with every declaration
if he's lucky otherwise they cheat him
after the insults, fists and sneers.
Popular songs lead to the foolish fashion
of a boorish and contorted culture
belonging to officials, butchers and flunkies
who perfectly understand the art of DIY (do-it-yourself).
The public's habits have changed
but it's the multinationals that have lead it
to chew on sweetened shit
whilst thinking it's ground flour.
The new generation has been digested
and there is no hope left.


Refrain: Tired kites tremble
  Through strange and distant paths
  a child used to pull a string
  but they killed him and innocence is dead.
                   They said grow up, stop dreaming,
                   become an adult and adminster
                   If war or famine should come
                   you'll be all alone.
                   If you don't put on your helmet to go and die
                   so that the fatherland can compensate
                   those who suffer, those who cry for you
                   and who will never have a generous salary.
                   No more words, no more bullshit
                   it's too late, I'm afraid , I'm afraid, I'm afraid,for the  consciences that are
                   outraged, ill, offended, derided, humbled and lost.                          


They say that if the end of the world comes
and no-one has noticed this sick merry-go-round
where even the gods find it hard
to remember bold mythology.
Where the mosque, each faith and church
without any right, perpetuate a tense war.
Poor God, one and alone,
ripped with appalling malice
pulled left and right
we await the comment from some lady minister 
from the new department for "Equal Opportunities"
for each faith but not for humanity.  


Poor "scratch card" Italy
Leonardo Da Vinci is howling in his grave.
Poor Italy torn apart by building sites
by bribes and laws that have made a mess of everything.
Poor Italy, poor world,
the apocalypse presents the bill.