Wish you were here

So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from Hell,
blue skies from pain.
Can you tell a green field
from a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?

And did they get you trade
your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war
for a lead role in a cage?

How I wish, how I wish you were here.
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl,
year after year,
running over the same old ground.
What have we found?
The same old fears,
wish you were here.

Così, così pensi di poter distinguere
il paradiso dall'inferno?
Cieli blu dal dolore?
Puoi distinguere un campo verde
da un freddo binario d'acciaio?
Un sorriso da un velo?
Pensi di essere capace di distinguerli?

E ti hanno portato a barattare
i tuoi eroi con dei fantasmi?
Ceneri roventi per degli alberi?
Aria bollente con una fresca brezza?
Una magra consolazione per il cambiamento?
E hai scambiato una parte da comparsa in guerra
con un ruolo di comando in gabbia?

Come vorrei, come vorrei che tu fossi qui.
Siamo solo due anime perse che nuotano in una boccia per i pesci.
Anno dopo anno,
correndo sempre sul solito terreno,
cosa abbiamo trovato?
Le stesse vecchie paure,
vorrei che tu fossi qui.

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Green Day - Boulevard of Broken Dreams

I walk a lonely road
The only one that I have ever known
Don't know where it goes
But it's home to me and I walk alone

I walk this empty street
On the Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Where the city sleeps
and I'm the only one and I walk alone

I walk alone
I walk alone

I walk alone
I walk a...

My shadow's the only one that walks beside me
My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
'Til then I walk alone

Ah-ah, Ah-ah, Ah-ah, Aaah-ah,
Ah-ah, Ah-ah, Ah-ah

I'm walking down the line
That divides me somewhere in my mind
On the border line
Of the edge and where I walk alone

Read between the lines
What's fucked up and everything's alright
Check my vital signs
To know I'm still alive and I walk alone

I walk alone
I walk alone

I walk alone
I walk a...

My shadow's the only one that walks beside me
My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
'Til then I walk alone

Ah-ah, Ah-ah, Ah-ah, Aaah-ah
Ah-ah, Ah-ah

I walk alone
I walk a...

I walk this empty street
On the Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Where the city sleeps
And I'm the only one and I walk a...

My shadow's the only one that walks beside me
My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
'Til then I walk alone...