As its title implies, part of it is a parody of Patrick Hernandez's 1978 disco hit "Born to Be Alive", featuring the lyrics to "Esci dalla tua terra" (translatable as "Walk out of your land"), a 1973 Christian pop worship song by missionary Gigi Cocquio, about Abraham.

Rocco Tanica), acting out the role of a seminarian talking to a group of people from a small church community, reminding them that subscriptions for an upcoming chestnut-gathering trip to the fictional "Filzetta Valley" (named after a type of cured pork meat from Milan, but located somewhere within Southern Italy in the context of the song, according to Tanica's feigned Southern Italian dialectal accent) are being taken by "Father Egidio" in the parish, and warning "the usual smart alecks" that "no mass, no trip".

Cesàreo) playing the guitar intro from "Born to Be Alive", over which Conforti (in the same voice as earlier) says: "Among other things, it is useless to rehearse the choir on Wednesday evening if on Sunday the only people singing are the usual three – sorry for using this word – morons!"

This is followed by the chorus lyrics to Cocquio's song ["Esci dalla tua terra e va' dove ti porterò" and "Parola di Jahvè", i.e. "Walk out of your land and go where I shall bring you" / "Jehovah's word"] (sung by multi-instrumentalist Paolo Panigada (a.k.a.

As a coda, Conforti talks again with no music (in the same role as above) and says the following: "And one last thing: those little 13/14-year-old ladies who come into the oratory all made-up like cabaret singers should know that this is neither the place nor the occasion to devote themselves to certain activities, because we are here to grow up, to become adults, to build a community and become one another's neighbor.

The B-side to the original 12" single is another medley, consisting of the songs "World Class Player" and "John Holmes (Una vita per il cinema) [Shidzu version]".

[1] "World Class Player" is a literal English translation (sung by Elio in his usually exaggerated, totally non-English Italian accent) of "Giocatore mondiale", the band's signature tune for Quasi gol ["Almost a goal"], a 1990 radio show by Gialappa's Band (the comedic trio's first recurring show, where they provided their own humorous commentary to football matches in the 1990 FIFA World Cup, complete with sampled voices and comical sound effects).

The back cover is an anonymous Bible illustration in the style of Gustave Doré, depicting Abraham, five other men (one of which, on the far right, is only partly seen because of the way the picture is cropped), a crowd in the background and a football, added in by means of CGI.

The first of two captions next to a small outline drawing, below the main picture, correctly identifies Abraham as the figure on the far left, but the second one jokingly refers to the other five men (plus a single man in the crowd) as members of Elio e le Storie Tese.