Really, the headline says it all: Leviathan rap. In Italian.
It’s by Mondo Marcio (autotranslated Wiki page/original Italian), and I TOTALLY have to learn the language now.
For more about the Italian edition, published by Einaudi, click here.
Needless to say, anyone translating any lines from this will win my undying gratitude.
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June 1st, 2010 18:34
That is so cool Scott-la! It must make you so proud and ecstatic to know that people love leviathan soooo much!
June 1st, 2010 19:16
I am sooooooo going to learn the language for this reason only!!! Thanks for posting the vid Scott-La
June 1st, 2010 20:31
That is so awesome Scott-la!!!!
To bad i don’t speak much Italian. 
June 1st, 2010 20:58
Gosh now i really wish i was fluent in italian. . . I know some italian but he talks to fast for me to get exactly what he’s saying.
June 1st, 2010 22:48
Sounds awsome!!! I wish I knew what he was saying!!!
June 1st, 2010 23:42
That’s really awesome! Makes me wish I knew Italian…
June 2nd, 2010 00:24
woah. Better get to translating as soon as I get out of my writing class…
June 2nd, 2010 01:34
Dang. I should see if I can take Italian at my school. I’m pretty sure there’s a course in it. Awe. Some! Never thought I’d see rap and literature go hand in hand.
June 2nd, 2010 01:34
And I want the lyrics to that song!
June 2nd, 2010 02:17
my grandparents are immagrants from italy. maybe they can tell me what it says =)
June 2nd, 2010 03:41
If only he’d post the lyrics, I might be able to translate some. Maybe.
June 2nd, 2010 04:41
Artist: Mondo Marcio (Rotten World)
Song: Leviatano (Leviathan)
Believe me, we are in a fork
if I look to the horizon
a war is coming
the sky is so dark
I want another future
Don’t you see that you are running on a yarn?
bro, sometime we should have an alternative past
because the sky is so dark
I want another future
I can bring you
back into the years
and make you fly
like a leviathan
I can tell you
all about my dramas
we can run
away from Milan
Maybe you didn’t notice
that the life is a jungle
it’s like a performance
every time more absurd
by now it’s natural
to make a selection
there is nothing we can do
Darwin was right
we are only people
but so complicated
a lot of different stories
but, at the end, all are the same
I haven’t more an S
printed on the chest
I tried to fly
but I found a cold land
I can bring you
back into the years
when, maybe, the sky wasn’t so dark
I can tell you about heroes and deceives
but can you give me another future?
I can bring you
back into the years
and make you fly
like a leviathan
I can tell you
all about my dramas
we can run
away from Milan
I see machines, monsters, bro I’m going crazy
good boy, stay away from me or I catch you with a lazo
I haven’t space
I jump from the terrace
before making an herb tea and going in space
I stood
I stood alone
look at the mixture
but leave that argoument
I’m not a rising star
I am a shining sun
a storyteller about terrible stories
the thing that the first piece of shit push you to buy
2010, it’s hard to think
It’s true that I have closed the curtains
I read and I can travel
In the first world war, I was there
in another future
this one isn’t so dark
I don’t know if my name is so resistant to don’t go crazy
we need another world
not another rotten world
I can bring you
back into the years
and make you fly
like a leviathan
I can tell you
all about my drama
we can run
away from Milan
Because
Believe me, we are in a fork
if I look to the horizon
there is a war coming
the sky is so dark
I want another future
Don’t you see that you are running on a yarn?
we need an alternative past
because the sky is so dark
I want another future
I can bring you
back into the years
and make you fly
like a leviathan
I can tell you
all about my dramas
we can run
away from Milan
I can bring you
back into the years
and make you fly
like a leviathan
I can tell you
all about my dramas
we can run
away from Milan
I can bring you
back into the years
and make you fly
like a leviathan
I can tell you
all about my dramas
we can run
away from Milan
June 2nd, 2010 04:59
Giovanni -
w00t! Thanks so much.
-s
June 2nd, 2010 10:06
Wow…good job the people who made it, and thanks Giovanni-la for translating!
June 2nd, 2010 21:04
i just posted the lyrics on youtube! this is amazing! thanks giovanni!
June 2nd, 2010 22:11
sounds so great, their language is so much prettier…and this rap is better than a LOT that i’ve heard in america, lol.
June 2nd, 2010 22:21
Very cool, I was actually getting ready to ask my mom to help me translate it, so cool and their rap is waayyy better than american rap.
June 3rd, 2010 01:28
I’m glad I was able to help!
June 3rd, 2010 09:20
Haha you are so awesome Giovanni!!!! The only thing i got out of it when i was listening was “like a leviathan”. Lol. Awesome. And it’s so much nicer and AWESOMER than most rap in america. I like it.
June 3rd, 2010 09:35
Also noticing Scott-la that you got the 13th comment
June 3rd, 2010 09:44
I hate to be a whiner Scott-la, but do you know when we’re going to be able to see the Behemoth cover?
June 4th, 2010 04:32
I hate American rap -_-
June 4th, 2010 05:50
haha, thanks Giovanni!
that rap is awesome! ;D
June 4th, 2010 10:24
Yeah, I was listening to it again, and I actually understood a bit of it because I’m taking Spanish, and some of the words are similar. It was good to cross-check what I thought they were with Giovanni-la’s lyrics.
June 4th, 2010 22:03
hahaha! amazing. I speak spanish so I was able to pick out words here and there but mostly I was in awe that there is a leviathan rap lol
June 4th, 2010 22:06
!!! como un leviatano!!!!
June 4th, 2010 22:34
im not really that into rap but if yall say it sounds awsome then it is.
wooooooooooot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! im graduating today!!!!!!!!!!
June 5th, 2010 03:25
The rap is really good, even though I don’t listen to rap all that often. It would be funny if American rappers wrote songs about books too. I doubt they would do this well.
Congrats, kim-la
June 6th, 2010 02:34
Had I that kind of talent, there would have been an American rap about it as well! Leviathan was an amazing book! I can’t wait for the next one!!!
June 7th, 2010 02:37
Yay, thanks Giovanni, ur awesome like that!
June 7th, 2010 06:42
Just wondering why they did a rap…?
It’s cool and all but what made them do it?
June 7th, 2010 23:42
@Ash-la. Hmmm i was kind of wondering the same thing. It’s awesome that they did it but i was wondering why. I guess the world may never know. Maybe they just really liked the book!
June 8th, 2010 02:54
I think it’s a way to approach young people to reading.
June 10th, 2010 12:00
Thanks for taking the time to discuss this, I feel strongly about it and love learning more on this topic. If possible, as you gain expertise, would you mind updating your blog with more information? It is extremely helpful and beneficial to your readers.
עוזרת.
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June 10th, 2010 18:51
Yeah like the US posters in the librarys with popular actors reading books. That makes since.
July 13th, 2010 23:09
Credimi siamo a un bivio
se guardo all’orizzonte c’è una guerra in arrivo
il cielo è cosi scuro
vorrei un’altro futuro
non vedi che corri su un filo
a volte ci vorrebbe un passato alternativo
perchè il cielo è cosi scuro
vorrei un’altro futuro..
Ti posso portare indietro negli anni
o farti volare come un leviatano
io ti posso parlare di tutti i miei drammi
possiamo scappare via da Milano..
Se non l’hai notato la vita è una giungla
è come una recita è sempre più assurda
ormai è naturale fare selezione
non c’è niente da fare, Darwin aveva ragione
siamo solo persone, ma cosi complesse
tante storie diverse, ma infondo le stesse
io non ho più una “esse” stampata sul petto
ho provato a volare ma ho trovato il suolo freddo
ti posso portare indietro negli anni
quando forse non c’era un cielo cosi scuro
io ti posso parlare di eroi e di inganni
ma tu mi puoi dare un’altro futuro
perchè..
Ti posso portare indietro negli anni
o farti volare come un leviatano
io ti posso parlare di tutti i miei drammi
possiamo scappare via da Milano..
Vedo macchine e mostri frà sto diventando pazzo
bravo ragazzo stammi lontano o ti prendo a lazzo
non ho spazio, faccio un salto dal terrazzo
prima di farmi una tisana e andare nello spazio
solo rimasto, sono il solo, il solo rimasto
guarda l’impasto, ma non toccare quel tasto
non sono più un astro nascente, sono un sole che splende
narratore di storie tremende, quello che il primo stronzo ti vende
sei portato a comprare, nel 2010 è dura pensare
è vero io ormai ho chiuso le tende, leggo e riesco a viaggiare
vedi io nella prima guerra mondiale c’ero
mi serve un’altro futuro, questo qua è cosi scuro
non sono più sicuro, che il mio nome sia cosi duraturo
da non uscire pazzo, serve un’altro futuro
non un’altro Mondo Marcio..
Ti posso portare indietro negli anni
o farti volare come un leviatano
io ti posso parlare di tutti i miei drammi
possiamo scappare via da Milano..
Credimi siamo a un bivio
se guardo all’orizzonte c’è una guerra in arrivo
il cielo è cosi scuro
vorrei un’altro futuro
non vedi che corri su un filo
a volte ci vorrebbe un passato alternativo
perchè il cielo è cosi scuro
vorrei un’altro futuro..
Ti posso portare indietro negli anni
o farti volare come un leviatano
io ti posso parlare di tutti i miei drammi
possiamo scappare via da Milano!! [x 3]
Heeheehee….
July 22nd, 2010 07:56
dude, i gotta say, this is like the ONLY rap song that i have ever enjoyed. then again, thats probably because its about one of my favorite books ever written, so i might be biased
August 4th, 2010 01:41
That sounds so pretty, it’s so smooth. Better than English.
Italian rocks.
August 9th, 2010 05:56
I bookmarked your site. Thanks for all the reading material. I enjoy reading here!
August 11th, 2010 06:56
I feel i need to know what happens to eachugg ultra tall boots and every Midnighter till there lives come tp a stop!!
November 23rd, 2010 11:39
Im at university of phoenix studying art and I really want to be an actress one day. I like my greek sisters (shout out hey!) and i am a bit of a wild animal…