E Chiove
Comm'è stretta 'sta via
À 'ggente nun ce cape
Se fa 'na prucessione
Ca cammina chianu chianu
Nun è muorto nisciuno
Nun è 'o santo e nisciuno
Nun se sente 'na voce
E nun sona 'na campana
E intanto 'o core aspetta
Ca s'arapene 'e funtane
E chiove, n'capo 'e criature
Vulesse arravuglià 'sta luna
Cu'na funa
Pe m'a purtà luntano
Pe m'a purtà luntano
Addò 'o cielo che è cielo nun
Se fa mai scuro
E chiove, n'terra c nisciuno
Vulesse cummannà pe
Spremmere 'e dulure
Dinto a 'stu ciummo amaro
Ca nun canosce 'o mare
Pecchè 'o mare è luntano
Eppure sta vicino
Comm'è 'llonga 'sta via
Pecchè nun sponta mai
Se perde dint' 'e 'pprete
'Mmiezo 'e carte arravugliate
Sotto 'a l'evera 'e muro
Ca s'arrampeca e 'ggiura
'E jastemme de'juorne
'E serate senza pane
E intanto 'o core aspetta
Ca s'arapene 'e funtane
E chiove, n'capo 'e criature
Vulesse arravuglià 'sta luna
Cu 'na funa
Pe m'a purta luntano
Pe m'a purta luntano
Addiò 'o cielo che è cielo nun
Se fa mai scuro
E chiove, n'terra e nisciuno
Vulesse cummannà pe spremmere 'e
Dulure
Dinto a 'stu ciummo amaro
Ca nun canosce 'o mare
Pecchè 'o mare è luntano
Eppure sta vicino
Dinto a 'stu ciummo amaro
Ca nun canosce 'o mare
Pecchè 'o mare è luntano
Eppure sta vici
And it rains
How narrow this street is
The people don't fit
It's a procession
That walks slowly
No one is dead
No one is a saint
No voice is heard
And no bell rings
And meanwhile the heart waits
Longing for fountains
And it rains, on top of creatures
They would like to wrap up this moon
With a rope
To take me far away
To take me far away
Where the sky that is never
Gets dark
And it rains, on the ground and no one
Would like to command to
Squeeze the pain
Into this bitter corner
That doesn't know the sea
Because the sea is far away
Yet so close
How long this street is
Why doesn't it ever sprout
It gets lost among the priests
Amidst tangled cards
Under the wall's ivy
That climbs and swears
The echoes of days
Evenings without bread
And meanwhile the heart waits
Longing for fountains
And it rains, on top of creatures
They would like to wrap up this moon
With a rope
To take me far away
To take me far away
Where the sky that is never
Gets dark
And it rains, on the ground and no one
Would like to command to squeeze
The pain
Into this bitter corner
That doesn't know the sea
Because the sea is far away
Yet so close
Into this bitter corner
That doesn't know the sea
Because the sea is far away
Yet so close