Le tasche piene di sassi

The song was written by Jovanotti and Franco Santarnecchi, under the music production of Michele Canova.^[2] The singer explained that the meaning of the song is dedicate to his mother Viola Cardinali.^[3][4]

The music video for the song, directed by Maki Gherzi was released on March 24, 2011, through the singer's YouTube channel. Jovanotti explained that the video is inspired by Bob Fosse's film Lenny:^[5]

"It is a song that offers different possible readings, and making a video with only one visual point of view would have been limiting. It is a purely emotional song and so it was not at all easy to make a video. Then as sometimes happens, suddenly an idea came up that was interesting to us. Going around the net one night I happened to see Lenny, the Bob Fosse film, again. [...] Fosse in his cinema manages to portray the contrast and reciprocity between intimacy and stage. We decided to 'quote' the atmosphere of Lenny, the cinematography, even the shots. [...] I tell a story, not necessarily a comic story, a dramatic story, a biographical story ... a story. The viewer who will see the video will not hear what I am saying and will not even see me singing, but will see a man alone, in the dark, lit only by a bull's eye telling a story to an audience in semi-darkness, telling a story that is life, telling perhaps his life, perhaps telling the lives of those in the audience."