Il motore del 2000 [English translation]

The engine of the year 2000 will be beautiful and shiny

it will be fast and quiet, it will be a gentle engine

It'll have a finely-tuned exhaust system and non-polluting smell

a boy or a girl will be able to breathe it in [safely].

But according to our level of competence

no one yet can really tell how

a young man of the year 2000 will be and behave

and this is because no one knows.

The hypothesis is fascinating and also urgent

but from this standpoint

today we know next to nothing.

We know everything about the engine

this shiny engine of tomorrow

but we can't sketch the heart

of that young man of tomorrow.

We know nothing about the young man

waiting on the doorstep

in the wind of the year 2000

we are unable to picture him.