Lyric discussion by Diego8978 

Cover art for Introservi lyrics by Elio E Le Storie Tese

This is the intro to "Servi della gleba", built around the melody of the parent song's chorus and featuring just piano and vocals. It should have been included on the 1992 album "Italyan, Rum Casusu Çikti" – it didn't make the cut eventually, but an "encrypted" (speeded up) version was tacked onto the end as a hidden track. The version presented here is an alternate take that appeared on the band's 1997 greatest hits compilation. A third version is featured on their live double album "Made In Japan".

The narrator is a teenage boy hopelessly in love with a girl who doesn't care about him. One day she kisses him on the cheek, quite near the corner of his mouth, and he mistakenly takes this as a good omen. Then, from his window, he watches as she walks up to one of his friends and nonchalantly sticks her tongue into his mouth. But that apparently does not upset him because, he says, "she assured me she doesn't love him. Actually, I even feel sorry about him because he's being deceived". Poor deluded fool...