No Satisfaction Lyrics in English Ermal Meta

Below, I translated the lyrics of the song No Satisfaction by Ermal Meta from Italian to English.
I live off approval
I sell feelings
I cry and grit my teeth
I came, I saw, and I lost
I dig with my hands in relatives' pockets
You live and don't feel it and you give me advice
I heat up the atmosphere
But I'm alone tonight too
You study just to pass
I just drift along and while I squeeze her hands
That smell of other hands
I can't find anymore
I can't find anymore
In this
No satisfaction
You laugh and look like a hyena
I scream and look like a monkey
You carve every kind of adventure on your back
I cling to any excuse
You don't care about others
There's the door
I can't find anymore
I can't find anymore
In this
No satisfaction
No satisfaction
Outro
We're perfect machines made of words, of lightning bolts
We're machines invented by a slightly animal mind
Where a heartbeat and a roar are both a ritual
For whoever loses and whoever wins
The prize's the same
No satisfaction
No satisfaction
Next one like me, step up
We're there
But what do you want from me?
I can't find anymore
No satisfaction
But what do you want from me?
No satisfaction
But what do you want from me?
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Ermal Meta, Roberto Cardella
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SONG MEANING

No Satisfaction is Ermal Meta’s electrifying confession of a life spent chasing applause yet ending in a void. The narrator piles up his own contradictions: he lives off other people’s approval, sells feelings, cries while gritting his teeth, and still keeps losing. Surrounded by people who seem sure of themselves, he realizes every handshake smells of somebody else’s hand, every victory feels second-hand. The chorus hammers it in: he looks around and finds nothing—only no satisfaction.

Behind the personal angst lies a bigger picture. Meta paints us all as perfect machines of words and lightning, half animal instinct, half social theater, racing through exams, careers, and wild adventures. Whether we roar like winners or whimper like losers, the prize is identical: a hollow echo that keeps asking, What do you want from me? This catchy yet stinging anthem warns that success without authenticity will never calm the restless beat of the heart.

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