Importante

How important do you think you are, so important
How important do you think you are, so important
How important do you think you are, so important
You’ll think it’s awful that I say it

That the day your name’s on an obituary
Beyond the pain it brings to your kin
It’ll weigh as much as a tiny ant
You, who think you’re the ace of the deck

You’re just a crumb from the daily bread
From the big bakery of the fools
Who still think they’re important
I can assure you with certainty

That no one will notice when you’re gone
You’re just a splinter in the frame of a box
Made to decorate the shelf
Don’t dare to dismiss it as nonsense

Nothing will change when you leave
The zebras will still have their stripes
The Himalayas will stay in their place
The rest of the geography will do the same

Each one will carry on with their life
Everyone will strive to measure up
Everyone will want to hang a medal
Some will put their aim to the test

Until they discover some strange planet
And they’ll climb the steps one by one
Just in case we have company there
In the eternal lottery of the years

Some will arrive better and others worse
Black sheep will come to the flock
And the righteous will pay for the sinners
The day will come again, though you ignore it

When spring and its colors
Will be a reality and not just rumors
You’ll still look just as vain
And people with their comings and goings

Will block the avenues again
Whether you want to be there or not
The time to pass never forgets
And I don’t think anything will ever stop it

A leaf will never fall twice
Life will remain a paradox
Matisse’s room just as red
And all the people on one leg

On the tightrope of the days
Just to feed their melancholies
They’ll keep inventing theories
About how pure science is the way

Or if a divine being is what guides them
I’ll tell you the future and I’m no fortune teller
Every atom will go back where it came from
If it’s a battle, it’s a lost one

And you’re gonna be screwed if it doesn’t work for you
Because it won’t matter if you cut it down
Moss will grow on the trunk of life

How important do you think you are, so important
How important do you think you are, so important
How important do you think you are, so important