You will have to pretend

You will have to pretend
as if everything was going well.
What more do you want, what more do you ask,
than for everything to go well.

Your exalted language,
your clean and just country,
the world rich and at peace,
perspectives of a long life.
And it rains when it has to,
and the sun shines when it's needed.

You will have to pretend...

Unsurpassable harvests,
great industrial production,
millions of jobs
which await you if you want to work.
There is a great hunger for culture
and the sky is clear and starry.

You will have to pretend...

There has never been so much unity,
"Unity of Market in the Universal".
The army spinal column!
The one who had always complained
could only say: "What a pity this crisis"
and was silent.

You will have to pretend...