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Verse 1

I don't sleep at night, my head is bursting

Plan A, plan B, I don't care

A-Class, G-Class, overtaking on the right

Ten grams, twenty grams, smoke by the window

And, sorry, my heart is cold, but my head is hot

Small-town kids, big-city dreams

I know how to sell a record with my face on it

I know how to sell hash if I go back there

They love you as long as you're poor

You make a bit more money than them and they don't approve

Popular, but you're not one of the people anymore

Just because you made it they hate you a bit, hey

I swear, I'm still me when I look back at photos of when I was a kid

We used to make our promises with our little fingers

And a caress can leave you a shiver, a bruise

Here they keep you on the ground, they don't want to see you fly

Helicopter, I pass over the old Aler housing blocks

When you talk about me you're hurting yourself

All my bars are religion

Around here they tattoo my name on themselves

They watched me grow up

Prechorus

One floor, two floors, three floors, then four, I run up the steps

The fifth, then the sixth, then the seventh, eighth, we know life is short

Above these blocks you can't see the sun, under these blocks there's the shade

And for every brother who leaves there's at least one who comes back

Chorus 1

Fifteen floors, where I'm from they're already grown up at fifteen

Fifteen of us out there, fifteen TMAXes, fifteen grams

Fifteen of us in fifteen square metres, but we managed to save ourselves

We managed to save ourselves

Verse 2

I remember myself at fifteen, fifteen little thugs, fifteen snapshots

On the number 15 that went into town, so off to cause trouble

Fifteen traumas, fifteen stitches in my sides

Four kids present at fifteen desks

Fifteen backpacks, fifteen packages

Fifteen grams, so you get off on it

Then when we're older, fifteen hours with the overtime

Fifteen days of holiday in two years

Fifteen slaves, fifteen days and then you run

So the basics, so it studies our spasms, fifteen filthy rags

Fifteen arrests, barely three months ago, fifteen years ahead

Fifteen floors

I didn't win the lottery, but after years of fighting

The whole lot is mine now

Even if I've sorted them out

I want the ones who stood by me instead of the nostalgia

In a year we used to spend, to dress the four of us

What I'm paying now for the dry cleaner's

I turn up at the concerts in a 720

Like presidents with a police escort

Chorus 2

Fifteen floors, where I'm from they're already grown up at fifteen

Fifteen of us out there, fifteen TMAXes, fifteen grams

Fifteen of us in fifteen square metres, but we managed to save ourselves

We managed to save ourselves

Chorus 3

Fifteen floors

Where I'm from they're already grown up at fifteen

Fifteen of us out there, fifteen TMAXes, fifteen grams

Fifteen of us in fifteen square metres, but we managed to save ourselves

We managed to save ourselves

Outro

Fifteen floors

At fifteen

Fifteen grams

We managed to save ourselves

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zarri — thugs / delinquents

Zarri is a slang term, particularly used in some parts of Italy, to refer to young, often rebellious individuals, sometimes associated with a rough or delinquent lifestyle. It's not a common word in everyday Italian, making it interesting and unique to this song's context.

In "15 Piani," Sfera Ebbasta uses zarri to paint a vivid picture of his youth and the environment he grew up in, specifically mentioning "quindici zarri" (fifteen thugs/delinquents). This word helps to convey the raw reality and struggles of his past, adding a layer of authenticity to his storytelling.

Everything in this song hangs off one number. Fifteen is the floor count of a Milan council block, the age you stop being a child there, and the weight in a bag: "Quindici in giro, quindici TMAX, quindici grammi" (Fifteen of us out there, fifteen TMAXes, fifteen grams). The chorus keeps landing on "Quindici in quindici metri quadrati, ma siamo riusciti a salvarci" (Fifteen of us in fifteen square metres, but we managed to save ourselves), and the ma (but) sitting in the middle of it does most of the work. Before it the verse climbs the stairs a floor at a time, "Un piano, due piani, tre piani, poi quattro" (One floor, two floors, three floors, then four), which is a broken lift or a career depending on how you hear it.

The second verse pushes the pun until it hurts, stacking quindici (fifteen) against quindi (so) until arrests, school desks and days of holiday all sound like the same word. What surrounds it is more bruised than boastful. "Ti amano finché sei povero" (They love you as long as you are poor) sits a few bars from a helicopter passing over the old Aler housing blocks, and "Non ho vinto al Lotto, però dopo anni che lotto" (I did not win the lottery, but after years of fighting) is the sharpest line here, because lotto is the lottery and also I fight. Even the flex is bookkeeping: what four of them once spent on clothes in a year is now the dry cleaning bill.

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