Fiori sui balconi [English translation]

You know when you want to leave but then you end up staying1

When you say a word so many times that it doesn’t make sense anymore

But now I don’t know anymore

How you drive with the headlights off

I get dragged down

The stairs by my hair

I never remember the dreams

In the morning, I’ve lost them already

It all goes back to usual

I go back to the way I was before

Before I knew you

Shy, mistaken

Not knowing what to do

Not knowing how to do it

I apologize if I want to save the world but in the end I can’t

If I try to look at myself nice and deep, but then here deep down I get lost

But I’ll stay out tonight

Like the flowers on the balconies

And the street through the red light

I don’t care what time it is

If I'm acting dumb or if I really am dumb

From tonight on, I don’t know you

I don’t remember you anymore

Not even you anymore

I’ll remove you at the last sip

I’ll stay out tonight

Like the flowers on the balconies

Drawing stars and hearts on the glass of the last train

You know the days when you don’t sleep and stay for a whole day

All those times that you imagined it and then it happens for real

But sometimes I can’t anymore

Daydreaming

I get dragged down

Like the water over the rooftops

I never remember the reason

In the morning I find myself above and below like before

With my head in the air and my self-esteem down in the basement

Shy, mistaken

Not knowing what to do

Not knowing how to do it

But I’ll stay out tonight

Like the flowers on the balconies

And the street through the red light

I don’t care what time it is

If I'm acting dumb or if I really am dumb

From tonight on, I don’t know you

I don’t remember you anymore

Not even you anymore

I’ll remove you at the last sip

I’ll stay out tonight

Like the flowers on the balconies

Drawing stars and hearts on the glass of the last train

I don’t remember you anymore

Not even you anymore

I’ll remove you at the last sip

I’ll stay out tonight

Like the flowers on the balconies

Drawing stars and hearts on the glass of the last train

1. Literally, “You know when you want to leave but then, in the end, you say, I’ll stay.”

• Artist:Federica Abbate