Guccini Francesco
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God is Dead
God is dead (Francesco Guccini)
I saw people my age go away
along the roads that do not lead never to anything
looking for the dream that leads to madness
in search of something they can't find, in the world they already have
along the roads that are wet with wine
inside to the rooms transformed into pills
inside the clouds of smoke of the world made of cities
to be against and swallow our tired civilization, and a god who is dead
at the edges of the streets god he is dead
in the cars rented out in installments god is dead
in the myths of the summer god is dead
They told me that this generation of mine no longer believes
in this which is often masked with faith
in the eternal myths of the homeland and the hero
because the time has now come to deny everything that is false
and that is of bias and habit and fear
a politics that is only about making a career
self-interested respectability
dignity made of emptiness
the hypocrisy of those who always stay with reason and never wrong
and a god who died
in the extermination camps god died
with the myths of the race god died
with the men of the party god and ' dead.
But I think that this generation of mine is prepared
for a new world and for a newly born hope
for a future that it has in its hands, for a revolt without weapons
and that we all now know that if God dies it is for three days and then he rises again
in what we believe God has risen
in what we want God has risen
in the world what will we do God is risen

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