Il testamento di Tito- Fabrizio De Andrè
// I wanna transpose this into comic form sooner or later, cause it's too meaningful to be left in the dust
// Those are the last words on earth of the good thief Tito, one of the two thieves crucified with Jesus, as imagined by the author
LINK TO THE SONG: IT'S IN ITALIAN
Do not have gods other than me.
often made me think
Other people come from the east
said it was kinda the same
They believed in one that wasn't you
and they did not hurt me
They believed in one that wasn't you
and they did not hurt me
Do not mention the name of God,
do not mention it in vain
with a knife stabbed in my side
I yelled my pain and his name
but maybe he was tired, or too busy
so he didn't heard my suffering
but maybe he was tired, or too far away
I really named him in vain
Honor your father, honor your mother
and honor their stick too
kiss the hand that broke your nose
because you begged it for a morsel
when my father's heart stopped
I didn't feel any sorrow
when my father's heart stopped
I didn't feel any sorrow
Remember to hallow the holidays
easy for us thieves
enter in temples which puke psalms
of slaves and their masters
without ending tied to altars
cut up like beasts
without ending tied to altars
cut up like beasts
The fifth say You shall not steal
and maybe I respected it
emptying, silently, the bulging pouches
of the ones that already stole
but I, lawless, stole in my name,
they stole in the name of the Lord
but I, lawless, stole in my name,
they stole in the name of the Lord
Do not commit activities that aren't pure,
that is do not scatter semen,
Impregnate a woman each time you love her,
so you'll be a devout man
Then the lust vanishes and the kid remains
and many are killed by hunger
Maybe I mistook pleasure for love
but I din't brought any pain
Seventh says Do not kill
if you want to be worthy for the sky
Look today, at this Lord's law
nailed three times in the wood
Look at the fate of that Nazarene
and a thief do not die less
Look at the fate of that Nazarene
and a thief do not die less
Do not bear false witness
and help them kill a man
They know by memory the divine laws
but they always forget absolution
I'd sworn up and down on God and my name
and no, I don't feel any sorrow
I'd sworn up and down on God and my name
and no, I don't feel any sorrow
Do not covet on other's things
Do not covet their wives
Say that to them, ask that to the few
who have a woman and something
In the other's beds already warm of love
I didn't felt any pain
Yesterday's envy is not over yet
Tonight I envy your life
But now that night and darkness arrive
the pain leaves my eyes
and the sun slips down the dunes
to go rape other nights
I by looking this man die,
mother, I feel pain
In pity which doesn't cede to the grudge
mother, I learned love