Moonlight Popolare Lyrics in English Mahmood , Massimo Pericolo

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Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Moonlight Popolare by Mahmood from Italian to English.

You talk about your life

As if it were written on the pages of the Quran

Me, just like you

I don't come from Bel Air, I was born here

Ask your friends I paid

What strange thing I did to get

From the little church to the Top 10

With no convertible or dad

Mothers scream in chorus

Sun outside the prisons

Fathers without work

Looking for house arrest

But if you look up from this yard

The moon looks like a sapphire lost in the dark

On the rooftops it

Shines like Shanghai

You see it too

From this neighborhood up

And the more you watch it the more you wanna pray

The moon from public housing

Bridge

Yo, bro, play

Fly away from your city

Anti-trap police

Holy Mary full of crack

Around here I'm more famous than Drake

If my life's a movie, yours is the

I've got an extra gear 'cause the new car's got six

I've got more money than my folks, to all these

And they said I'd lose my mind

But with joints I only burned my hoodie

Everything changed but me

I can read in your face that we look alike

We're always on guard like someone boxing

If you're normal they look at you weird

But I'll make millions like 'North Pole'

They told us ask and you'll be given

But not that the more you give the more they ask

The only light in the dark is a shot

But you're not the only one with a Glock

On the rooftops it

Shines like Shanghai

You see it too

From this neighborhood up

And the more you watch it the more you wanna pray

The moon from public housing

Bridge

Work sucks, bro, I either rap or deal

I get a manicure so I can scratch my d*ck

I did time, you worked your a*s off

But in the end we've both got in our hands a

If they ask what you'll be when you grow up

Answer: it'll be enough to have the balls to

Make the right choices if you pick the wrong places and people

More than a Grammy, I'll hear you from a

Outro

And the more you watch it the more you wanna pray

The moon from public housing

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Alessandro Mahmoud, Alessandro Vanetti

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SONG MEANING

Moonlight Popolare paints a raw yet poetic night-scape of Italy’s working-class housing blocks. Mahmood’s smooth chorus gazes up at a sapphire-bright moon that “brilla come Shanghai,” a gem hanging over mothers shouting outside prisons, jobless fathers under house arrest, and kids deciding whether to rap or hustle. Massimo Pericolo’s verses dive deeper into that same courtyard, firing off snapshots of police sirens, cracked sidewalks, fast fame, and the constant pressure to keep your guard up. The streets may be harsh, but the moon is a shared spotlight that levels everyone, from church basements to the Top 10 charts.

Behind the gritty slang and bravado lies a stubborn hope: if the moon can shine over a casa popolare, then success can rise from it too. The two artists celebrate survival, ambition, and the dream of trading handcuffs for hit records while reminding listeners that the neighborhood’s struggles remain etched in their identity. It is a song about chasing light in the dark, turning balcony dreams into platinum singles, and proving that even the roughest postcode can look up and find something worth praying to.

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Mahmood Moonlight Popolare Lyrics