Il Testamento Di Tito
Fabrizio De André
Tito's Testament
You shall have no other God but me
Often you made me think
Different people coming from the east
Said that deep down it was the same
They believed in another different from you
They didn't harm me
They believed in another different from you
They didn't harm me
Do not take the name of God in vain
With a knife planted in the side
I cried out my pain and his name
But maybe he was tired, maybe too busy
He didn't listen to my pain
But maybe he was tired, maybe too far away
I truly took his name in vain
Honor your father and honor your mother
And honor even their stick
Kiss the hand that broke your nose
Because you asked for a bite
When my father's heart stopped
I didn't feel pain
When my father's heart stopped
I didn't feel pain
Remember to sanctify the holidays
Easy for us thieves
To enter the temples that regurgitate psalms
Of slaves and their masters
Without ending up tied to the altars
Slaughtered like animals
Without ending up tied to the altars
Slaughtered like animals
The fifth says 'you shall not steal'
And maybe I respected it
Silently emptying the already swollen pockets
Of those who had stolen
But I stole without law in my name
Those others in the name of God
But I stole without law in my name
Those others in the name of God
Do not commit impure acts
That is, do not waste the seed
Fertilize a woman every time you love her
So you will be a man of faith
Then the desire fades and the child remains
And many are killed by hunger
Maybe I confused pleasure and love
But I didn't create pain
The seventh says 'you shall not kill
If you want to be worthy of heaven'
Look at this law of God today
Three times nailed to the wood
Look at the end of that Nazarene
A thief does not die less!
Look at the end of that Nazarene
A thief does not die less!
Do not bear false witness
And help them kill a man
They know by heart the Divine law
But they always forget forgiveness
I perjured on God and my honor
And no, I don't feel pain
I perjured on God and my name
And no, I don't feel pain
Do not covet the belongings of others
Do not covet their wife
Tell it to those, ask the few
Who have a woman and something
In the beds of others already warm with love
I didn't feel pain
Yesterday's envy is not over
Tonight I envy life
But now that evening comes and darkness
Takes the pain from my eyes
And the sun slides beyond the dunes
To violate other nights
I, seeing this man dying
Mother, I feel pain
In the mercy that does not yield to resentment
Mother, I have learned love