GOD ONLY KNOWS THE TIME

Steel bumpers are shining

Under the burning sun

The cactus of Mexican railways

Aren’t very green today

Philadelphia roads are sleeping

Under the snow

But the last child born in Zagabria

Can’t see the difference between you and me

I see the red lights shining

Of my old guitar’s amp

And the voice of its loudspeaker

Come out dirty and foul

Now the neon lights in Venice

Are substituted by electric lamps

But God only knows the time

When my love will turn back to me again

And my art and my song

You know are futile and vain

But God only knows the time

When my love will turn back to me again…..

And Milan’s traffic

Is very thick today

Now my friend Franco‘s stopping work

Thinking of his wife he begins playing his guitar

And the magic Donella’s look

Is lifeless and sad today

I think her new latin lover

Isn’t a good thing for her

New York city’s dreamers

Are walking down in Central Park

And John Lennon’s memory

Moves about a robin’s song

Now the neon lights in Venice

Are substituted by electric lamps

But God only knows the time

When my love will turn back to me again

And my art and my song

You know are futile and vain

But God only knows the time

When my love will turn back to me again…..

Now the bodies cast their shadows

Manikins illuminated by the city light

The children play with their atomic toys

And old people smile through water marked faces

Students talking out of the classrooms

Teachers are in their waiting-rooms

The headmaster smokes his cigar

Looking at his green plants growing

N Now the neon lights in Venice

Are substituted by electric lamps

But God only knows the time

When my love will turn back to me again

And my art and my song

You know are futile and vain

But God only knows the time

When my love will turn back to me again…..