Il Muro Del Suono Lyrics in English Ligabue

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Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Il Muro Del Suono by Ligabue from Italian to English.

Under the world's forever distracted eyes

Under the sponge strokes of a democracy

There's someone who lived hoping

And someone despairing

And there's someone who still lived dying

There's someone who manages to sleep

No matter how it went

No matter what

Under the world's bored and distracted eyes

The bullet's chambered in fine calligraphy

The justice you're waiting for

Is the same for everybody

But the rulings are a hair late

Lawyers raising the chalice to the sky

Feeling like god

There's someone who can break the sound barrier

While the whole world comments on itself

The match struck in the dark

Sheds more light than we see

There's someone who can break the sound barrier

Under the world's eyes busy elsewhere

Every tale gets rewritten in economics

With pit bulls let loose to maul in the street

And the owners just standing there smoking

Whoever was supposed to pay never paid

The silverware

There's someone who can break the sound barrier

While the whole world comments on itself

The match struck in the dark

Sheds more light than we see

There's someone who can break the sound barrier

Of sound

Under the world's still distracted eyes

Things get flipped downtown and in the suburbs

The vampire doesn't change

Gun at the temple

Doesn't apologize for all that blood

Whoever was supposed to pay never paid

For the famine

Whoever was supposed to pay never paid

The silverware

Whoever was supposed to pay never paid

There's someone who can break the sound barrier

While the whole world comments on itself

The match struck in the dark

Sheds more light than we think

There's someone who can break the sound barrier

Of sound

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Luciano Ligabue

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SONG MEANING

Il Muro Del Suono is Ligabue’s rallying cry against the sleepy indifference that so often cloaks injustice. With cutting imagery – distracted eyes, delayed verdicts, champagne-toasting lawyers – the song paints a world where the powerful keep dodging the bill while ordinary people swing between hope and despair. Over a driving rock groove, Ligabue asks us to notice the loaded gun, the unleashed pit bulls, the vampire that never apologizes, and to recognize how easily we let these scenes scroll past like background noise.

Yet the refrain lights a spark of rebellion: “C’è qualcuno che può rompere il muro del suono” – someone can break the sound barrier, pierce the wall of numbing silence. That “someone” could be any of us. Even a single match struck in the dark, he reminds us, shines brighter than we think. The song is both a protest and a pep talk, urging listeners to raise their voices, expose the wrongs that hide in plain sight, and turn passive commentary into action before the final echo fades.

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Ligabue Il Muro Del Suono Lyrics