I knew the pain

(In person, it is understood)

And he met me:

We are friends since ever,

I never lost it;

He is much less,

Which indeed feels like finished

If, for a single day,

He does not see me or he does not feel me.

I knew the pain

And it seemed ridiculous to me,

When I give him elbow,

When I say in the face:

"But to whom do you want to be afraid?"

I knew the pain:

And he was the sick child,

The lost girl on the horizon,

The choked dream,

The indifference of the world to hunger,

To poverty, to life ...

The brigand in the corner

Hidden cowardly beaten tumor

God, who was not there

And he swore to be there, if he swore, to be there ... and he was not there

I knew the pain

And I hit him with songs and words

To make him tremble,

To make it pale,

To bring it back to the corner,

So full of barrels,

So stunned packed packed ...

So wretched that at the gong signal

He jumped out of the ring and never again

Never see again

Then I stopped it in a bar,

Who did not even know people;
I stopped him to say:

"With me you can not do anything!"

I knew the pain

And I had pity on him,

Of his solitude,

Of his spider's fingers

To be condemned to his trade

Condemned to his pain;

I looked into his eyes,

Which are rocks and tears

Of broken dreams: breaths interrupted

The last stars of desperate lovers

"Do you want to stop for a moment?" I asked,

Do you want to stop hiding it? Do you want to sit down?

For once listen to me !! listen to me

.... And do not fancy!

You did everything

To disarm my life

And you do not know, you can not know

Which passes me like a thin shadowy shadow,

Just-just touching,

And you have no way out

Because, in the heart learned,

In this wait

Even in one instant,

The emotion of friends who leave,

Children born,

Dreams that run in my present,

I'm alive

And you, my pain,

Does not count a fucking thing

I met you in a winter night

One of those nights that look like one day

But in the midst of the invisible stars and gone

I'm a man ... and you're not a fuckin 'thing