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    Se io fossi un angelo → English translation

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If I was an angel

If I was an angel
Who knows what I would do
Tall, blonde, invisible
How handsome I would be
And what courage I would have
 
Exploit me to the maximum
It's clear what I'd want
A free gypsy
The whole would spin round
 
I'd go to Afghanistan
And further down in South Africa
To speak to America
And if they don't pull me down,
I'd also go and speak to the Russians
 
Angel, if I was an angel
I'd fix them with a biblical gaze
I'll give you two hours, two hours maximum
Then, I would piss on your head
 
On your traffic
On your dollars (dollars)
On your beautiful fabrics
Like missiles, like missiles
 
If I was an angel, I would never be in the processions
In the boxes, with the cribs
I'd be sat smoking a Marlboro (cigarette)
In the fresh air, by the hedges
 
I would be a good angel, I would talk with God
I'd lovingly work him round to my style, my style
I'd speak to him in my style, and I would say
"What would you like to give me?"
"Power over the villains, and what do you do, forgive them"
 
But now you too make mistakes
But after, I wouldn't speak any more
An angel, I wouldn't be an angel any more
If they beat me down with a football
 
At most, I would be a devil
And frankly, this doesn't really suit me
But after hell what is there
Apart from the heat
It's not that different from here
 
Because I feel that, I'm sure that
I know that the angels are millions upon millions
And you can't see them in the sky, but amongst men
They are the most poor and the most alone
Those taken from society
And if amongst the men God was born again
I'd work him round to my style
To my style
To my style...
 
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Se io fossi un angelo

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