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Nice to meet you, I’m Luigi delle Bicocche,
in the sunlight I work as a construction worker; I break my knuckles.
When I was young, my idol was the actor Dennis Hopper,
who in Easy Rider travelled the world riding a chopper bike.
Instead, I spend my nights in a karaoke bar;
if you want, you can find me there, tempted by videopoker,
but my account languishes and that machine wants my blood:
a perfect plot for Bram Stoker.
You, what do you know about the life of workmen?
I tighten my expenses - goodbye butchers.
I haven’t got moneyboxes like those of a Dubai’s sheik,
and I feel like devolving the otto per mille to SNAI.
I’m the perfect target for loan sharks, but I hold them off,
I don’t play Al Pacino, I’m not addicted to Pachinko,
I don’t scratch, I don’t win, I don’t drink in Bingo rooms.
Little by little, I grow persuaded that…
I’m a hero, because I fight all day long.
I’m a hero, because I fight for my pension.
I’m a hero, because I protect my loved ones from hitmen, from money-lenders.
I’m a hero, because I live through my job.
I’m a hero, amazing every evening.
I’m a hero, and I’ll show you,
I’ll show you what I can do with my superpower.
My salary halved, or I get fired;
at any age, I’m already out of the market.
Were I a former SS, 93 years old, I’d be working in my lawyer’s office.
I come back home exhausted in the evening instead,
I have a furred tongue, like concrete in a cement mixer.
I’m flat broke, I do not score, and my account is in the hole,
so I can stay loyal to my flag.
Come on, go see in jail
how many temporary employees has turned to crime.
When you starve, you make various enemies.
If your name is not Savoia, forget about house arrest.10
You end up in the hands of loan sharks,
you eat what you can find, if you insist on scavenging the trash cans.
Neither Spider-Man nor Rocky nor Rambo nor people like them
would do what I do for my kids.
I’m a hero, because I fight all day long.
I’m a hero, because I fight for my pension.
I’m a hero, because I protect my loved ones from the hands of hitmen, of money-lenders.
I’m a hero, because I live through my job.
I’m a hero, amazing every evening.
I’m a hero, and I’ll show you,
I’ll show you what I can do with my superpower.
To make money, there are various ways:
I could begin committing fraud
and steal money from dead people like a banker in Lodi.
There are people who quit the conservatory to go to Montecitorio:
there, pianists are paid more than Adrien Brody.
I go on and my mind gets clouded,
I’m about to get mad, like in a call center,
I live in room 237, but I won’t cut my family into pieces
because I’m a hero.
I’m a hero, because I fight all day long.
I’m a hero, because I fight for my pension.
I’m a hero, because I protect my loved ones from hitmen, from money-lenders.
I’m a hero, because I live through my job.
I’m a hero, amazing every evening.
I’m a hero, and I’ll show you,
I’ll show you what I can do with my superpower.
