Giorgio Gaber - La libertà (Freedom), 1972
Giorgio Gaber is a legend of Milanese cabaret and a poet.

LA LIBERTÀ - FREEDOM 

I want to be free, free like a man
I would like to be free as a man
Like a new born man
Who only faces nature

Walking through a wood
With the joy of pursuing an adventure
Always free and full energy
Who makes love as if he were an animal

Reckless like a man
Pleased with his own freedom

Freedom is not standing on a tree
It is not even the flight of a blowfly
Freedom is not a free space
Freedom is participation

I would like to be free as a man
Like a man who needs
to wander with his imagination
And who finds that space
Only in democracy

Who has the right to vote
And that who spends his life delegating
And in being told what to do
He found his new freedom

Freedom is not standing on a tree
It's not even having an opinion
Freedom is not a free space
Freedom is participation

I would like to be free as a man

Like the most evolved man
Who stands on its own intellect
And who challenges nature
With the undisputed power of science

Filled with enthusiasm wanders
Free in the universe
And convinced that the power of thought
Is the only freedom

Freedom is not standing on a tree
It is not even a gesture or an invention
Freedom is not a free space
Freedom is participation

Freedom is not standing on a tree
It is not even the flight of a bluebottle
Freedom is not a free space
Freedom is participation


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