Roberto Vecchioni — Parabola song lyrics and translation

The page contains the lyrics and English translation of the song "Parabola" by Roberto Vecchioni.

Lyrics

Con la moglie dal quale ruppe subito
Ma non in tempo per evitare
Che gli nascesse un figlio naturale
Era vecchio, era saggio e non sbagliava
Mai e ben che fosse falsa moneta
Tacque con tutti e lo chiamò poeta
Da sua moglie ebbe poi un figlio vero
Uno che aveva sempre ragione
E per questo ragioniere fu il suo nome
Ragioniere cresceva molto algebrico
Poeta aveva lo sguardo assente
Parlava tanto ma non rendeva niente
Ragazza ragazza perché tu quella sera
Giravi da sola per tutta la brughiera?
Ragazza dovevi restare a casa muta
Adesso c'è chi piange d’averti conosciuta
E poeta le disse: «Margherita, qui c'è la luna
Che ci fa lume vieni a giocare
Inventeremo un fiume»
Come attore non era proprio l’ultimo
E le confuse tutte le idee
Facendo sfoggio di rose e di azalee
E poi corse dal padre subito a dirgli:
«Ho fatto un fiume di primavera
Oltre la valle, dentro la brughiera»
«Che scemenza è mai questa, figlio mio
No non c'è un fiume nella brughiera
Lo so per certo li ho fatti tutti io»
«Io, padre, ti sfido, se tu sei il creatore
Tu prova a levarlo quel fiume dal suo cuore
Io padre ti sfido, se sei l’imperatore
Tu prova a levarci quel fiume e questo amore»
Era vecchio era saggio e non sbagliava mai
Prese da parte il figlio accorto
Gli tolse il libro cassa e lo mandò nell’orto
Là, nell’orto, piangeva margherita
Soffriva tanto che lui la portò al mare
Il mare è facile, c'è poco da inventare
E fu il vecchio a benedir le nozze dicendo:
«Andate figli della terra
Voi siete giusti e non avete guerra»
Poi rivolto all’infame parolaio
Lo cacciò via coi gesto di una mano
La giara vuota non serve più a nessuno
«Per il mondo ch'è mio ti maledico
Avrai vent’anni tutta la vita
Ma non potrai chiamare margherita»

Lyrics translation

With the wife from whom he immediately broke up
But not in time to avoid
That he was born a natural child
He was old, he was wise, and he wasn't wrong.
Never was it a fake coin
He was silent with everyone and called him a poet
By his wife he had a real son
One who was always right
And for this accountant was his name
Accountant grew very algebraic
Poet had his gaze absent
He talked a lot but didn't give anything
Girl girl why you that night
You roamed all over the Moor by yourself?
Girl you had to stay home mute
Now there are those who mourn that they have known you
And the poet said to her, " Margaret, here is the moon
What makes us light come and play
We'll invent a river»
As an actor he wasn't really the last
And the confused all ideas
Showing off roses and azaleas
And then he ran to his father right away to tell him:
"I made a Spring River
Beyond the valley, into the moor»
"What nonsense is this, my son
No there is no river in the moor
I know for a fact I made them all»
"I, Father, challenge you, if you are the creator
You try to get that river out of his heart
I defy you, Father, if you are the emperor
You try to take that river and this love»
He was old, he was wise, and he was never wrong.
Took aside the discerning son
And he took away the book, and sent it into the garden.
There, in the garden, margherita cried
She suffered so much that he took her to the sea
The sea is easy, there is little to invent
And it was the old man who blessed the wedding saying:
"Go Children of the Earth
You are righteous and you have no war»
Then turned to the infamous lyricist
He threw him away with the gesture of one hand
No one needs the empty jar anymore
"For the world that is mine I curse thee
You'll be twenty all your life
But you can't call margherita»