Il vitello dai piedi di balsa Lyrics

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Cover art for Il vitello dai piedi di balsa lyrics by Elio E Le Storie Tese

This is a fairytale which takes place inside Elio's mind. There's a grove inhabited by four strange two-legged calves, whose feet are respectively made of balsa wood, sponge, cobalt and tuna cream.

One day, though, the balsa-footed calf makes the mistake of telling the cobalt-footed calf he got word that his feet are not made of real cobalt but of bread, then coated with a thin layer of cobalt, and says the tuna-footed calf told him so.

But the cobalt-footed calf knows for sure he's lying. His sponge-footed friend, who's a detective, helped him uncover the truth. So the balsa-footed calf has to pay for his crime – his feet are amputated to the strains of some obscure, unlistenable song.

At the end of the song, the little Faggot Bear unexpectedly pops out. Now being unable to walk, there's nothing the poor calf can do to stop the merry bear from sodomizing him!

Yet, as the song's reprise shows, there's a moral to this fable...