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Credo nella bugia quando un bambino si nasconde quando sdraiato timido in mezzo all'erba non fa niente di male accarezza il suo corpo e dolcemente si masturba è cosi naturale ma poi non lo può dire dunque Credo nella bugia quando un bambino si difende con tutti i suoi divieti non può far meglio la sua unica arma è salvare se stesso con l'aiuto di un imbroglio non è un fatto di forma è in cerca della sua normalità. Com'è strana la nostra morale se un fatto naturale diventa la tua prima oscenità. Com'è strana la nostra apprensione ci vuole un'invenzione non è per stravaganza o per follia viva la bugia. Credo nella bugia quando un bambino non si arrende trova con la finzione la sua misura sfugge ad ogni giudizio per non esser costretto a fare un torto alla natura la bugia che bel vizio vorrei essere sincero come lui. Non è per stravaganza o per follia viva la bugia. © 1974 - Giorgio Gaber (music, lyrics) and Sandro Luporini (lyrics) |
I believe in the lie. When a young boy hides himself, when stretched out timid in the middle of the grass he does nothing bad, he caresses his body and sweetly masturbates, it’s so natural, but then he can’t say it, therefore I believe in the lie. When a young boy defends himself, with all of his restrictions he can’t do better, his only weapon is to save himself with the aid of a deception. It’s not a matter of form, it’s in search of his normality. How strange our morality if a natural fact becomes your first obscenity. How strange our apprehension, it takes an invention, it’s not for extravagance or for folly. Long live the lie. I believe in the lie. When a young boy doesn’t surrender, he finds with fiction his measure, he flees every judgment to not be constrained to commit a wrong against nature. The lie, what a fine vice. I would like to be sincere like he is. It’s not for extravagance or for folly, long live the lie. English translation © 2024 Dennis Criteser Anche per oggi non si vola (Even for Today One Doesn't Fly) is a live double album that collects the songs and monologues of Gaber's 1974-1975 theater season. Some of the songs on the album reflect a sense that the urgent need for social and political change felt in the late 1960s was being lost to an attitude preferring comfort and ease. |
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.
