Ciao amore ciao [English translation]

The usual road, white as salt

the wheat to grow, the fields to plough.

Checking every day

if it's raining or the sun is shining

to understand if tomorrow

you'll live or you'll die

and one day saying "enough" and going away.

Goodbye my love

goodbye my love, goodbye my love goodbye.

Goodbye my love,

goodbye my love, goodbye my love goodbye.

Going far far away

to look for another world,

saying goodbye to the backyard,

going away dreaming.

And then a thousand streets grey as smoke

in a world of lights in which you feel you are noone.

Skipping a hundred years in just one day,

from oxcarts in the fields

to airplanes in the sky.

Understanding nothing, and feeling like coming back to you.

Goodbye my love,

goodbye my love, goodbye my love goodbye.

Goodbye my love,

goodbye my love, goodbye my love goodbye.

Not being able to do anything in a world that knows everything

and not having a single penny to go back.

Goodbye my love,

goodbye my love, goodbye my love goodbye.

Goodbye my love,

goodbye my love, goodbye my love goodbye.

• Artist:Luigi Tenco
• Album:Luigi Tenco (1972)