Teorema is a musical piece performed (in the original version brought to success) by the Italian singer Marco Ferradini, taken from the 1981 Qdisc Schiavo senza catena.
It was composed by Herbert Pagani (lyrics) and Marco Ferradini himself (music).
The song describes the experience of a man, evidently recovering from a particularly strong sentimental disappointment, who reflects, “as a wounded man”, on how he should actually behave, with his woman or with the woman he desires, to obtain her love. The narrator states that he believes that if one behaves too affectionately, warmly, or romantically, it will be detrimental to a relationship; on the contrary,
«Take a woman,
treat her badly,
let me wait for you for hours,
don’t show up when you call her
do it as a favor”
thus you will be successful and will be able to conquer it. The text concludes with the intervention of a second “narrative voice” who contradicts what has been said so far, saying that the first narrator spoke like this only because of the failure of his love relationship, and that there is actually no universal law that indicates how to behave in emotional bonds, apart from being oneself:
«There are no laws in love,
just be who you are.”
