Devi ridere - Fabio Concato

Se ti accorgi d’esser vecchio

Che hai i capelli color neve

Che ti servono gli occhiali ed un bastone per portarti in giro

Uomo, devi ridere, devi ridere

E pensa alle cartucce che hai sparato

E non soltanto in quelle guerre

Che han voluto farti fare senza chiederti il permesso

Vecchio, devi ridere, devi ridere

Devi ridere di te

E non pensare ai tuoi duecento acciacchi

Che non puoi piegarti, che non puoi bere e fumare piu'

In fondo ad ottant?

anni ci hai tirato

Con i vizi che volevi tu

E adesso con l’amaro in bocca dici:

«Non mi riconosco piu'!»

Vecchio fortunato hai compagnia

Hai un lavoro da sbrigare alle ore che ti pare

Sei impegnato e quindi

Devi ridere, devi ridere, devi ridere

Bestemmi come un pazzo quando parli di pensione

Quando leggi sul giornale che e' scoppiata l’inflazione

Devi ridere, per non piangere

Devi ridere di noi

Se ancora te la prendi cosi a cuore

Vorra' dire certamente che poi

Tanto vecchio non sei;

La tua fortuna immensa e' che il cervello

Non vuole abbandonarti mai

E allora non dar retta a quegli acciacchi

Pensa ancora a quel che hai

If you realize you are old

That you have snow-colored hair

That you need glasses and a cane to carry you around

Man, you have to laugh, you have to laugh

And think about the cartridges you fired

And not just in those wars

That they wanted you to do without asking your permission

Old man, you have to laugh, you have to laugh

You have to laugh at yourself

And don't think about your two hundred ailments

That you can't bend over, that you can't drink and smoke anymore

At the bottom of eighty?

years you pulled us

With the vices you wanted

And now with a bitter taste in your mouth you say:

"I don't recognize myself anymore!"

Lucky old man you have company

You have a job to do at any time you want

You are busy and so

You have to laugh, you have to laugh, you have to laugh

You swear like a madman when you talk about retirement

When you read in the newspaper that inflation has broken out

You have to laugh, not to cry

You have to laugh at us

If you still take it so close to heart

It will certainly mean that later

You are not that old;

Your immense luck is that the brain

He never wants to leave you

So don't listen to those ailments

Think again about what you have