WE BELIEVE - Fabrizio Clementi

“We Believe” is a reflection on the relationship between humanity, technology, and reality. It tells the story of a world where we believe we can play, sing, write, and even live, while technology slowly replaces our experiences, steals our time, and empties the places and relationships that once gave meaning to our lives. The song ends with the most painful realization: we have built a world full of connections, yet we risk losing touch with ourselves, until we no longer believe in who we truly are. WE BELIEVE [Verse 1] We put the world inside a screen, so we don't have to feel reality, we gave a name to every dream and an algorithm to every truth. Technology is the art of lies, it sells us time while time goes by, it takes the places from our streets, leaving empty spaces filled with cities. [Pre-Chorus] And we believe that we can play, we believe that we can sing, we believe we're writing words someone else has learned to say. [Chorus] And we believe that we create, we believe that we can fly, inside perfect photographs and images that never breathe the truth. And when the noise is finally gone, no one will believe in us anymore… not even ourselves, by then. [Verse 2] We erased the distances without ever learning to get close, we have a thousand friends inside our hands but no one to whom we truly show our souls. Our voices are becoming numbers, our faces turning into identities, we search for a heart inside an algorithm and forget the heart that beats within. [Pre-Chorus] And we believe that we can play, we believe that we can sing, we believe we're writing feelings that a machine can imitate. [Chorus] And we believe that we can dream, we believe that we can think, that all we have to do is ask a machine and we can have it all. And when the noise is finally gone, no one will believe in us anymore… not even ourselves, by then. [Bridge – crescendo] Where did that old road disappear, the one that led us to the sea? Where did the slow time disappear, the time that taught us how to wait? Where is my father's voice? Where is the scent of our old town? We have everything within our hands, but we don't know what we're missing now. [Break – almost whispered] Maybe it's not the machine that lies… maybe it's us who stopped looking at ourselves. [Final Chorus – epic] We thought that we were living, we thought that this was freedom, but we traded all our time for the illusion of eternity. And while the world keeps running, we remain standing here, with a thousand dreams inside a screen and a life that won't come back. We believe that we can play, we believe that we can sing, we still believe that we are someone… but who will believe in us? [Outro] Maybe tomorrow we'll turn it all off, to find what isn't there anymore. And in that silence, finally, maybe we'll become ourselves again.