Malaunità (Bad Unity)

we are the children of the sun and of the snow
we are heaven, we are these stones
an anger in the body from a long time ago,
that are burning in our hands for over a century

time of a wind that disturbs the leaves
time of a sea that moves the waves
times of the past, times of today
times that dry and time that wet

hands that write and dirty the story
infamous and murderers who rise in glory
hands that steal our lands and our women
and that demand the taxes of a war

war that kills women and children
and that has reduced our people to hunger
people of love, educated and brilliant
first "brigands" and then emigrants
Hey! are you my brother?

so why kill my people
and put my land on fire
Hey! and so you're my brother?
and don't talk to me about this flag
because I've nothing to do with it

you Piedmont's man, an half French
were ruined by debts and expenses
and have become a great man and a king
with the money of the Neapolitan banks

you did not know neither honor nor decency
you thought only of your self-interest
you said that I was the denial of God [1]
while you stole all my blood

you have been good to invent a war
with the excuse that we are all brothers
and without even a declaration
chased out who was the rightful owner

you have taken away certainties and hopes
in exchange of misery and ignorance
then you left us a great ballast:
ndrangheta, , trash and camorra

[1] William Ewart Gladstone,the english Prime Minister said in 1851 that the Bourbon government was like the "denial of God",he said that after visiting the neapoletan prison but Gladstone, having returned to Naples between 1888 and 1889, would have confessed that he had never been in any jail and had written the two missives on behalf of Lord Palmerston.