LYRICS GAME

At a quarter past eight on an August Wednesday

I'm finally leaving this place

After thirty years locked up on Asinara

What's a few hours in a coffin

Because in the end a coffin's not such a bad place

You just need to know yourself and be able to settle

And in that, humbly

I've always been great

Because to live I don't need anything, just

Air

Only

Air

I told you: 'sooner or later I'll screw you all!'

They laughed, they thought I was kidding

'Nobody ever leaves here standing up'

As if that could discourage me

And then over time they saw me waste away little by little

I lost the weight, I lost my teeth, I look like a rat

I gnawed every moment of life I'd been given

And I nurtured my sweetest far-fetched plans

In the air

In the Air

And the others always protesting, avenging some wrong

They told me, disgusted, 'you're virtually dead!'

Your mouth's only good for breathing

I thought: 'isn't that the trick? inhale, exhale'

Inhale, exhale: that's what I can do

And when I'm lucky I feel the sea's dampness

I know death, and if it hasn't beaten me yet

It's because I've spent a lifetime living just for one hour

Of air

One hour of Air

Slow breath

I wait for the wind

My moment will come