Fabrizio De Andrè Storia di un impiegato (Broken Promises - Full Album)

[They] Fought as if playing

The puppies of May were normal

They had the time

Even for the prison

All that was left was awaiting them outside

The same rage, the same spring

Even if our May

has done without your courage

If the fear to watch has made you

bow your chin

If the fire has spared your cars

(Fiat 1100)

Even if you believe yourself acquitted

You're nevertheless involved

And if you've said:

"Nothing is happening"

The factories will reopen,

Some student will be arrested

Convinced it was a game

Which we'd give up quickly

Try freely to bethink yourself acquitted

You're just as well involved

Even if you've closed your doors on our face

The night when panthers bit our posteriours

Leaving us in good will

Massacring on pavement

Even if now you don't give a damn

You that night, you were.

And if on your quarters

Everything has remained as yesterday

Without barricades, without causalities,

without granades

If you've gulped the "truths" of TV

Even if then you've been acquitted

You're involved just as well.

And if you believe now,

That everything be as before

Because you've voted again

at security, at discipline

Convinced to make away with the fear

to change

We'll come again at your doors

And [we'll] shout even harder

For as much as you bethink yourself acquitted

You're just the same involved. X2

And I counted teeth to pennies

Said: "Thank God, Happy New Year!"

I felt normal

But my 13 years were a bit more than theirs

But it doesn't matter, Now I'll get back to work

They sang the disorder of dreams

Ingrates of the French well being

And they didn't give the air

Of denouncing men on balconies

Of a single May, of a unique country

And I [had] the face used by common sense

I repeat: Let's stop hating each-other

(paraphrasing)

And I'm surprised still to measure myself

on top of them

And now is late, now I'm return to work.