Oh Palermo, ancient city!
Who grows wider under every siege!
Palermo, who outlives everything life brings!
Palermo, big old witness, see me!
Palermo, “wide gulf,” take all of me!
Palermo, take the violence.
Take the betrayal.
Take the divorce.
Take the violation.
Take the discord.
Palermo, take it to the soil.
Palermo, take it!
Palermo, take the worst and best of me.
Palermo, depedestalize me!
Palermo, take it.
Etna, oh subterranean burn, take it!
Palermo, lonely heart grief, take it!
Palermo, pandemic panic, take it!
Palermo, boycott them, in loyalty!
Palermo, don’t fix me, take me!
Palermo, more storied than me, take it!
Palermo, take the times I was too hard and the times I was too soft.
Palermo, take the distance between me and my dreams.
Palermo, I love you, I hate you, Italy!
Palermo, take my fate and destiny!
Palermo, perche piangi sempre!
Gatti palermitani, take me.
Palermo, weigh me down!
Take me beneath!
Take me back, before all the death and despair and false sentiment!
Before the good boys were taught bad things.
Before bad girls turned good too soon.
Palermo, take that time when it all came on too much and too fast and nearly killed my freedom!
Palermo, cowardice, take it!
When I regress into baby idiot, take it!
Empire, take it.
Madness, take it.
Psychic decay, take it.
Silent shame, take it.
Denial, take it.
Forgetting, take it.
Control, take it.
Innocence, take it.
Discesca dei Guidici, please take it!
Tyrrhenian Sea, engulf me. Take the tyrant out of me!
Quattro Canti, tutti e quattro, take me!
All of that unfinished business, please Palermo Goddess, complete it!
Chiostro dei miei segreti, take it!
Palermo, take it.
Corrosive companions, take them!
Take all the dead I’m still entangled with.
Palermo, I’ll bow back and then face forward again!
Per l’amore di dio! Palermo! Harbor me!
Palermo, take it, all the good, bad and ugly that’s ever happened to me.
Come on, Palermo! Don’t leave it all up to me!
Palermo,
older than my sorrow,
take it.
Palermo,
you've carried more,
take it.
Oh Palermo, syncretic chapel,
take it, vi prego, please!
