Nonno Holywood

Some things really hurt
You can't just hold them back
There's no way to change
What doesn't sit right with you
They say that with time everything fades away
But when does it fade!?
Why doesn't it fade

And I remember right now
Every time you laughed
Every time you stopped on the street and argued
With people at the intersections
Honking their horns

Grandpa, you left me in a world of piles
Shopping malls instead of the yard
A generation with new conversations
We speak more English than our own dialects
I miss your whistles while you’re taking a piss
I miss the Livorno you used to tell about
Tonight I close my eyes but I won’t sleep
I won’t sleep, I won’t sleep
Tonight I close my eyes but I won’t sleep
I won’t sleep
And I don’t know

How beautiful the countryside is and how nice it is to drink wine
How many women we’ve checked out while rolling down the window
The wealth is in the simple, simple
In simply smiling on a day that’s worth nothing
It feels a bit like the second half
Of a final to forget
Like a taxi at the station you can’t book
We’re hostages of a network that doesn’t catch fish
But catches us

Grandpa, I always dream before I sleep
I try to find a way to understand
We run through the smiles of the right collars
But if we fall down, then it’s our own damn fault
Life now is a bridge that could collapse
Life is a new idol to download
Tonight I close my eyes but I won’t sleep
I won’t sleep, I won’t sleep
Tonight I close my eyes but I won’t sleep
I don’t know

And so
I hold your advice close to me
Because you know it’s never easy here
For those who stand against it, still

And so
For every time I want to hear you
I’ll close my eyes to this reality

Grandpa, you left me in a world of piles
A generation I can’t feel
But deep down we’re stories with a thousand details
Fragile and beautiful among our mistakes
I miss your whistles while you’re taking a piss
I miss the Livorno you used to tell about
Tonight I close my eyes but I won’t sleep
I won’t sleep, I won’t sleep

Tonight I close my eyes but I won’t sleep
I won’t sleep, I won’t sleep
Tonight I close my eyes but I won’t sleep
I won’t sleep
And I don’t know