Translation of the song Bentu 'e Machighine artist Piero Marras

Curre a tancare sa janna dere’

Rush and close the door right now,

curre a tancare

rush and close it

gai custu sole non fachet a tempus

so that this sunlight won’t have time

a si’ch'andare.

to leave.

Est una notte de focu mannu mannu,

It’s a night of big, big fire,

nàramilu tue it'apo in coro hoc’annu;

tell me what’s in my heart this year;

fàchemi intèndere sas umbras brinchetande

let me hear the shadows hopping

chi no’che semus a beru ammachiande.

that we’re really going crazy.

Intrami in su sàmbene bentu 'e machìghine,

Get into my blood, wind of madness

Intrami in su sàmbene bentu 'e machìghine,

Get into my blood, wind of madness

Bentu 'e machine.

Wind of madness

Mi so intendende che mérula chin mérula,

I’m feeling like a blackbird with blackbirds,

mi so intendende che mérula chin mérula,

I’m feeling like a blackbird with blackbirds,

mérula maca a su lampu 'e beranu,

a crazy blackbird in the summer lightning,

mérula chi cantat a su sole rimitanu.

a blackbird singing to a wretch sun.

Intrami in su sàmbene bentu 'e machìghine

Get into my blood, wind of madness

Intrami in su sàmbene bentu 'e machìghine

Get into my blood, wind of madness

Bentu 'e machine.

Wind of madness

Curre a tancare sa janna derè

Rush and close the door right now,

curre a tancare,

rush and close it

gai custu sole non fachet a tempus

so that this sunlight won’t have time

a si’ch'andare.

to leave.

Sonu luchente, sulitu 'e beranu,

Glaring sound, summer flute,

mùsica in conca totu su manzanu,

music in my head all morning,

sonu luchente, sonu bàrbaru che astore,

glaring sound, as barbarous as a goshawk,

ìntrami in sos ocros, chi non bia prus su sole.

get into my eyes, let me not see the sun now.

Intrami in su sàmbene bentu 'e machìghine

Get into my blood, wind of madness

Intrami in su sàmbene bentu 'e machìghine

Get into my blood, wind of madness

Bentu 'e machine.

Wind of madness

Brinchetande, brinchetande, brinchetande…

Hopping, hopping, hopping, hopping…

Intrami in su sàmbene bentu 'e machìghine

Get into my blood, wind of madness

Intrami in su sàmbene bentu 'e machìghine

Get into my blood, wind of madness

Bentu 'e machine.

Wind of madness

Curre a tancare sa janna dere’

Rush and close the door right now,

curre a tancare,

rush and close it

gai custu sole non fachet a tempus

so that this sunlight won’t have time

a si’ch'andare.

to leave.