Siamo al guinzaglio del capitale
1970 · Cedi GLP81024 · Florence, Italy
- Artist
- Leoncarlo Settimelli
- Title
- Siamo al guinzaglio del capitale
- Release
- Ogni giorno in piazza
- Year
- 1970
- Label
- Cedi # GLP81024
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- Italian
- Country
- Florence, Italy
- Songwriter
- Bozzi, Nissim (Canzoniere Pisano)
- Genre
- Folk · Contemporary Italian Folk Music
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Lyrics
English: You, who for eight hours / Have monitored the same device, / Pulled the same lever, / Waited for the same signal— / You, who for eight hours / Have been intent on pressing the same button— / Leave the factory half-dazed, / A single, relentless noise splitting your brain; / And all of this is but one link / In the chain to which you are bound. // Your boss wants you as a worker / In his factory, at every moment; / He has even built a small apartment / For you, right next to the workplace; / There is a nursery for your children, / And company training courses for the older ones— / But should you go on strike, it spells disaster: / You lose your job, you lose your home, / And your child loses their place in the training program; / And if you seek another job, / Another home, another hive, / You are hounded away, treated worse than a dog; / You live branded as a 'dissident,' / An 'undesirable element'— / You are finished, yet it changes nothing: / Production remains unaffected. // We are on the leash of capital; / You can no longer truly live, nor can you think— / We are on the leash of capital, / Not even free to love. / The rope may be long, but it is an illusion; / We must break out of this prison— / The rope may be long, but in Asia and Angola / They pull it tighter, until it’s at your throat. // Forty million noses pointed / Every evening on the television screen, / Forty million anonymous souls / Drifting through the aisles of supermarkets, / Clinging to the…
Notes
Track A3 (Parte I), with a "free" saxophone intervention by Mario Schiano; a Canzoniere Pisano song of 1969 (credited on the LP to Bozzi and Nissim), not on the Canzoniere Pisano's own Dischi del Sole EPs.
Themes
From the release Ogni giorno in piazza
In collections
European Songs · Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]