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Curami, curami, curami Prendimi in cura da te, prendimi in cura da te Curami, curami, curami Che ti venga voglia di me, che ti venga voglia di me Curami, curami, curami Verranno al contrattacco con elmi ed armi nuove Verranno al contrattacco, ma intanto adesso Curami, curami, curami Curami, curami, curami Curami Curami Solo una terapia Solo una terapia Solo una terapia Solo una terapia... Verranno al contrattacco con elmi ed armi nuove Verranno al contrattacco, ma intanto adesso Curami, curami, curami Curami, curami, curami Curami Curami Curami Curami Curami © 1986 CCCP After university, singer Giovanni Lindo Ferretti worked for five years as a psychiatric aide in a mental hospital. Ferretti said of the experience, "Those five years provided me with an attitude of acceptance of life in its complexity and the suffering you can't avoid. After so much psychic and physical discomfort, the fact that I became a punk singer seemed plausible to me. One of my crazies, when I went back to visit him, hugged me and told me 'It was about time you came over to our side!'." |
Cure me, cure me, cure me, take me under your care, take me under your care, cure me, cure me, cure me, may it come to you to want me, may it come to you to want me, cure me, cure me, cure me. They’ll come to the counterattack with helmets and new arms. They’ll come to the counterattack, but instead, now, cure me, cure me, cure me. Cure me, cure me, cure me. Cure me, cure me. Only a therapy, only a therapy, only a therapy, only a therapy . . . They’ll come to the counterattack with helmets and new arms. They’ll come to the counterattack, but instead, now, cure me, cure me, cure me. Cure me, cure me, cure me. Cure me, cure me, cure me, cure me. English translation © 2025 Dennis Criteser 1964-1985 Affinità -divergenze fra il compagno Togliatti e noi - Del conseguimento della maggiore età (Affinities and divergences between Comrade Togliatti and us - of attaining the age of majority) was CCCP's first full solo album (following a pair of EPs), released in 1986 on the Attack Punk Records label. The album met with both critical and commercial success, and is #12 on the Rolling Stones list of best Italian albums. The title refers to a December 31, 1962 editorial in the daily Renmin ribao, an organ of the Chinese Communist Party, which criticized the Italian Communist Party led by Palmiro Togliatti, whose portrait is in the background of the album cover. |
I began exploring Italian popular songs as part of learning Italian. Here are my translations for some of my favorite "canzoni" by Italian singers, songwriters, and bands whose work I admire. It's a work in progress that can serve as a curated introduction to Italian popular music, with an emphasis on the 1950s through the 1990s. If you speak Italian, send me a message if you see lyrics I've misunderstood.
