Amico Fragile
Fabrizio De André
Fragile Friend
Evaporated in a red cloud
In one of the many cracks of the night
With a need for attention and love
Too much, if you love me, cry
To be reciprocated
It was worth having fun on summer evenings
With a simple memory
To watch you rent a kilo of era
To retired farmers and their women
And give oceans generously
And more and more waves to the sailors on duty
Until discovering one by one your hiding places
Without regretting my gullibility
Because from the first trench
I was more curious than you
I was much more curious than you
And then surprised by your how are you
Amazed by less common and fiercer places
Like how do you feel friend, fragile friend
If you want I can take care of you an hour a month
She knows that I have lost two children
Madam you are a rather distracted woman
And still killed by your kindness
In the hour when one of my dreams
Second row ballerina
Waved for who knows what future
Her present of huge breasts
And her fresh cesarean
I thought it's nice that where my fingers end
A guitar must somehow begin
And then sitting in the middle of your goodbyes
I felt less tired than you
I was much less tired than you
I could tease the pants of the stranger
Until she opened her mouth wide
I could ask any of my children
To speak badly and loudly of me again
I could trade my guitar and his helmet
For a wooden box that said we will lose
I could ask what your dog's name is
Mine has been called free for a while
I could hire a cannibal a day
To teach me my distance from the stars
I could cross liters and liters of coral
To reach a place called goodbye
And never did it occur to me
To be drunker than you
To be much drunker than you