Intro

A few years ago my hair turned gray
For the first time I hit the brakes
Uncertain if I was the only fool
Or the last one to truly believe

With the doubt that for my crew it was just a job
Over the years they had children, I only had records and tours
Never grown up like Peter Pan
With labyrinthitis, alone, stuck in the studio
Han Solo, in the graphite
Entered here as a kid
I signed every contract, I trusted
Like a father, just being on stage was enough

Then they were always on vacation
Me alone there struggling
Maybe I treated him like a father
While he treated me like a fool

Why do something new if people already adore you
And in the end they only fall in love with novelty
Almost as if they were saying you're old, out of fashion
This stuff doesn't work if they do it at your age

I paid, I came out like at the bar
The penalty with the savings of a lifetime
At the price of freedom

I had broken even and I wondered what's the point
So why didn't you die young twenty years ago

Start again from less than zero
And finally lift the veil
And really tell you
Not the winning image that people try to sell
Of themselves

I don't want to live on a skyscraper
Just spit back a bit of the poison
And really tell myself the show goes on
Welcome to all those like me

The other Christmas I was down in the basement
Crying on the moving boxes
That when you've seen the world from the top, after
You're trapped at the top
Like a mouse

I don't look like a successful man and a man of value
When the price comes all at once from the writer
Copying yourself frees less pain
Than cutting yourself in the heart
In blood looking for words

It's time for me to get back
Or for me to get back by chance
That among those who had children, no one planned it here
My life is this theater
And when they turn off the lights
I won't even have a regret
If I lived like a real Goonie

And on the street they call me uncle
It's Philadelphia and I'm Rocky
Maybe because instead of a child, God
Gave me two million grandchildren

I listened to my stuff like never before
Sana Pianta, Meglio Prima, Rap n' Roll and DecaDance
I found it genuine but you can feel I was lost
Still mourning the end made by the first band

And what I thought was my true brother
Two kids who from scratch, put together a gang
The friendship that ended as always in life
For women, politics, the smell of vile cash

Start again from less than zero
And finally lift the veil
And really tell you
Not the winning image that people try to sell
Of themselves

I don't want to live on a skyscraper
Just spit back a bit of the poison
And really tell myself the show goes on
Welcome to all those like me

Welcome to all those like me

Welcome