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Nobody wants to be Robin

Why did I come here tonight?
good question,
if I told you I miss your dog, would you believe me?
that in my kitchen I have everything but salt, would you give it to me?
that I have a torn inside my throat which hurts me, hurts me,
ask me another question,
'cause I can't speak.
 
What I have to tell you tonight
doesn't matter,
it's just that looking into your eyes makes me get lost
when the sky is silent, it snows inside me,
if I promised to sleep with you and not to touch you at all, touch you, touch you,
of course,
you want to sleep with the dog,
 
Do you know how many people live with dogs?
and speak to them as if they were humans?
As time goes by, and you watch them leave like trains,
which don't have railroads but wings made out of paper?
and the crowd of loafers, in the street or on Facebook,
that believe they are geniuses, but say bullshit,
as we are left alone by night and cry
and then we sleep with dogs,
 
Also, have you realized we are more alone?
Everyone with the number ten on the back and then we are mistaken,
also, have you realized that in this world of heroes,
nobody wants to be Robin?,
 
And it's true, life is weird, it's like us,
it's a waiting room full of people, from province,
there's a boy in the entrance, looks at me and asks, 'why?'
why do we spend the night, waiting for the alarm to sound?
we fall in love with the first dishonest person
we complicate relationships as crosswords,
and you ask, 'why?'
ask me another question,
'cause I can't speak
 
Do you know how many people smile to life and sing to it?
waiting for Sunday to come,
As time goes by, and you watch them leave like trains,
which don't have railroads but wings made out of paper?
and the crowd of loafers, in the street or on Facebook,
that believe they are geniuses, but say bullshit,
as we are left alone by night and cry
and then we sleep with dogs
 
As we are left alone by night and cry
and then we sleep with dogs,
as we are left alone by night and cry
and then we sleep with dogs,
 
Also, have you realized we are more alone?
everyone with the number ten on the back and then we are mistaken,
also, have you realized that in this world of heroes,
nobody wants to be Robin?,
why did I come here tonight?
why did I come here tonight?
good question.
 
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Nessuno vuole essere Robin

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Poni de CthulhuPoni de Cthulhu
   Wed, 04/04/2018 - 10:24

Yes, you are right. 'People' is actually used as plural: ''people are strange'' is an example. I was just letting myself go through my Spanish grammar in a very instinctive way, (in Spanish, 'gente' is used as a singular pronoun) it's 5 a.m. so I should be sleeping by now, as I can't provide a proper English grammar anymore to my translations, haha.

RezzRezz    Wed, 04/04/2018 - 16:02

Thank you! You're the best :D

Don JuanDon Juan
   Thu, 05/04/2018 - 20:20

The source lyrics have been updated - Lyrics divided into stanzas. Please do the same to your translation.

eminoieminoi    Thu, 30/12/2021 - 21:50

"sbagliamo i rigori" means "we're missing the penalty shots".

It's a reference to football, like the "ten on our backs". The number 10 is usually worn by the most gifted player in a football team (the director of play so to speak, the playmaker). So the line means we all think we're the protagonists in the team but then we miss the penalty shots.

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