The opening song, "Radici", is about Guccini's family's house in Pavana, on the Tuscan Apennines.

"La locomotiva" (The locomotive) tells the story a failed suicide attack by a 19th-century Bolognese anarchist against a luxury train; the latter song has since then ended many Guccini shows.

"Piccola città" (Small town) is about Guccini's youth in Modena, where his parents had moved after World War II.

"Canzone della bambina portoghese" (The song of the Portuguese girl) is about how we think we understand the reality about us but we never get the essence of things.

It is about a dialog between a child born after an hypothetical atomic disaster and an old man who tries to describe the world how it was before.