Quando Sarò Vecchio Lyrics in English Jovanotti

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Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Quando Sarò Vecchio by Jovanotti from Italian to English.

When I'm old I'll be old

Nobody will have to come bust my b*lls anymore

What I'll have done I'll have done

I'll just want to sit and remember the good days

Many I know will be dead

Buried under meters of ingratitude

I'll stay old remembering

That I never thanked enough

Who handed me a rhyming couplet

Who made me feel good for a night

Who told me a nice story

Even if it wasn't true

When I'm old I'll be old

Of those nobody wants around

Because he's seen everything and done everything

And can't stand those whose turn is now

They'll respect me like you respect the time

That separates study from the exam

I hope to be satisfied with my days

Those still hungry will avoid my gaze

At night I'll listen lying down

To the relentless drip of a sink

That marks time like a killer

Like a killer

And then maybe on a Saturday in May

I'll ask a star for a ride

And to all the bullies I'll say again

With me you'll never win

And then on a Sunday morning

Still on my skin your perfume

To all the bullies I'll say loud

With me you'll never win

When I'm old I'll be old

Of inevitable mistakes I'll have made two hundred

And for the ones I made on purpose

I surely won't stand there offering compensation

If I'm not able when it's time

I feel like doing it now that I'm aware

Before hardness separates us

I thank everybody endlessly

When I'm old, period, that's it

The life that's ending will show its a*s

With my soldier's pension

All my future will have been used up

I'll call whoever I want an idiot

I'll say all the books are useless

And that a thousand centuries of history

Aren't worth a single second truly lived

With whoever fought to stay alive

With whoever helped me while I got by

With whoever taught me something that

Shines inside me

And then maybe on a Saturday in May

I'll ask a star for a ride

And to all the bullies I'll say again

With me you'll never win

And then on a Sunday morning

Still on my skin your perfume

To all the bullies I'll say loud

With me you'll never win

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Saturnino Celani, Lorenzo Cherubini, Michele Iorfida, Riccardo Onori, Franco Santarnecchi

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SONG MEANING

Quando Sarò Vecchio paints a vivid, cheeky self-portrait of Jovanotti as a future old man who has nothing left to prove and zero patience for nonsense. He imagines himself sitting back, replaying the “good days” like favorite songs, saluting the friends, strangers, and fleeting encounters that once sparked his creativity. At the same time, he vows to glare at the arrogant, shake his cane at life’s bullies, and keep shouting, “Con me voi non l’avrete vinta mai” (“You’ll never beat me”).

Beneath the playful bravado, the lyrics explore gratitude, regret, and the bittersweet countdown of time. Jovanotti admits he will rack up “two hundred” unavoidable mistakes, yet refuses to apologize for the deliberate ones. He dreams of hitching a ride on a star one May Saturday, still wearing the scent of a lover on a lazy Sunday, and laughing at the idea that books or centuries of history could replace one second truly lived. The song is a rebellious toast to aging: grow old, stay bold, remember the magic moments, and never let the bullies win.

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