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 this
That the day your name’s in an obituary
Beyond the pain it brings to your kin
It’ll weigh as much as an 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 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 call it 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 test their aim
Until they discover some strange planet
And they’ll climb the steps one by one
Just in case we have company there

And in the eternal lottery of the years
Some will arrive better and others worse
Black sheep will join the flock
And the righteous will pay for the sinners

The day will come again even if you ignore it
When spring and its colors
Will be a reality and not just rumors
It’ll still look just as vain

And people with their comings and goings
Will clog 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 melancholy
They’ll keep inventing theories

About whether pure science is the way
Or if a divine being is guiding 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 cause
And you’re gonna screw yourself if it doesn’t work
Because it won’t matter if you cut it
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