Piazza Grande
Lucio Dalla
Piazza Grande
Saints who pay for my lunch there are none
on the benches in Piazza Grande,
but when I'm hungry for merchants like me there are none here.
I sleep on the grass and have many friends around me,
the lovers in Piazza Grande,
about their troubles, their loves, I know everything, right and wrong.
In my own way, I also need caresses.
In my own way, I also need to dream.
I don't have a real family of my own
and my home is Piazza Grande,
to those who believe in me, I give love as much as I have.
With me, there are no generous women,
I steal love in Piazza Grande,
and luckily there are no bandits like me here.
In my own way, I also need caresses.
I need to pray to God.
But I will never change my life,
my way, what I am, I wanted it.
I don't have white sheets to cover us
under the stars in Piazza Grande,
and if life has no dreams, I have them and I give them to you.
And if there won't be people like me anymore,
I want to die in Piazza Grande,
among the cats that have no master like me around me.