Anima mia [English translation]

Anima mia: hard-hearted girl—we loved you.

We did not always understand you.

Anima mia: return to the village.

Nothing has changed at your house including your bed.

Barefoot like the child who comes from far away,

she leaves behind her twenty years for almost nothing.

Like those old suns that flee rain,

her heart seeks an asylum—a paradise.

Much like those melodies that some call crazy—

those that lack nothing but lyrics—

like a shadow she followed that stranger.

What does she have to lose—one more summer?

Her body exhausted from too many caresses,

and in her eyes the fear of tomorrow,

she is one of those who, for lack of tenderness,

does not shake her head to say no.

Anima mia: hard-hearted girl—we loved you.

We did not always understand you.

Anima mia: return to the village.

Nothing has changed at your house including your bed.

She knows well that, behind the closed shutters,

are those who have never known how to love her.

This man you follow is your last chance

because, after him, say goodbye to your childhood.

Anima mia: hard-hearted girl—we loved you.

We did not always understand you.

Anima mia: return to the village.

Nothing has changed at your house including your bed.

Anima mia: hard-hearted girl—we loved you.

We did not always understand you.

Anima mia: return to the village.

Nothing has changed at your house including your bed.

• Artist:Dalida
• Album:Il venait d'avoir 18 Ans (1973)