Il timido ubriaco

"Il timido ubriaco" is a 2000 song by Max Gazzè.

Overview

Composed by Gazzè with his brother Francesco, the song entered the 50th edition of the Sanremo Music Festival.
The song is built on a complex structure alternating binary verses, hendecasyllable, and ternary verses, based on "the repetition and variation of hyper-recurrent rhymes and lemmas" with "a plastic geometry that emphasises the idea of circularity and redundancy". The lyrics are inspired by the tradition of courtly love.
The song has been described as "a little masterpiece", and "really absurd, geometric, angular, immediate and inaccessible at the same time".