Vesti La Giubba
Luciano Pavarotti
Put on the Costume
Recite! While caught in delirium
I no longer know what I say and what I do!
Yet it is necessary to make an effort!
Bah, are you perhaps a man?
You are a clown!
Put on the costume and powder your face
People pay and want to laugh here
And if Harlequin steals your Columbine
Laugh, clown, and everyone will applaud!
Turn the spasms and the tears into jests
The sobbing and the pain into a grimace
Laugh, clown, at your broken love
Laugh at the pain that poisons your heart!
