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Song Nr. 1: Apprentice man• lyrics written in Italian by a group of 8 young people and 12 adults

• translated into English by Salvatore Filella• recorded in Italian by Ivo Zambello

Apprentice man

On the glacier that the sun was burninga day they waited in

front of the mountain top

The old man’s sandwich

and the child’s toast

Tell me old man

you that know a thing or two

to be a man

with the life in his own hands

Must I just eye

Must I just eye

or be able to play, too?

or be able to play, too?

The snow you can see under your feetSuddenly melts and let you surprisedSo things go when they come from above.

If you spoke with clearer wordsthe life that grows in my own hands would be a race without too many falls

The rightness you feel inside you

nobody offers it on a silver plate

You are the one who must catch it

if you want to be happy

Is it really sad to eat everyday

the dust arisen

from the past of a man?

If that is life…thank you so much, good man.

Sad the evening and sad the setting

were coming down the twos from the high mountain

The old man’s sandwich and the

child’s toast

The end