I need a breath

...e lo prenderò, queste due canzoni e i loro testi mi aiuteranno...

I am the one in ten 

A number on a list 

I am the one in ten 

Even though I don`t exist 

Nobody Knows me 

Even though I`m always there 

A statistic, a reminder 

Of a world that doesn`t care 

My arms enfold the dole queue 

Malnutrition dulls my hair 

My eyes are black and lifeless 

With an underprivileged stare 

I`m the beggar on the corner 

Will no-one spare a dime? 

I`m the child that never learns to read 

`Cause no-one spared the time 

I`m the murderer and the victim 

The licence with the gun 

I`m a sad and bruised old lady 

In an ally in a slum 

I`m a middle aged businessman 

With chronic heart disease 

I`m another teenaged suicide 

In a street that has no trees 

I`m a starving third world mother 

A refugee without a home 

I`m a house wife hooked on Valium 

I`m a Pensioner alone 

I`m a cancer ridden spectre 

Covering the earth 

I`m another hungry baby 

I`m an accident of birth. 

In a manner of speaking
I just want to say
That I could never forget the way
You told me everything
By saying nothing

In a manner of speaking
I don't understand
How love in silence becomes reprimand
But the way that I feel about you
Is beyond words

O give me the words
Give me the words
That tell me nothing
O give me the words
Give me the words
That tell me everything

In a manner of speaking
Semantics won't do
In this life that we live, we only make do
And the way that we feel
Might have to be sacrified

So in a manner of speaking
I just want to say
That just like you I should find a way
To tell you everything
By saying nothing.

O give me the words
Give me the words
That tell me nothing
O give me the words
Give me the words
Give me the words