Il Nilo nel Naviglio [English translation]

I feel the sunrise touching me behind the neck, on my head

Inside this pink sweater I can't give myself an answer

You say it's better if I change sweater and personality

But your smile is the only thing that can fuck me

Let it go for now, don't call back

Call back, call back, call back anymore

It doesn't hurt, hurt, hurt anymore anyway

I'm staying here, I'm wasting another night, I'm looking for the Nile1 in the Naviglio2

It's seven o'clock here, you call in after, I won't answer, smoking by the poolside

You said "Let's run away to China", but

Where am I going if you're not close to me anymore,

If the Nile is no longer there?

I'm sleeping in my car to get alcohol out of my head

The Lacoste sweater is the only thing of yours that I still have

But now you're forgetting my child-like actions

When at night we always mistook the Naviglio for the Nile

I'm old, but I don't feel old

You remember that I was born in September3 but

I'm staying here, I'm wasting another night, I'm looking for the Nile in the Naviglio

It's seven o'clock here, you call in after, I won't answer

Smoking by the poolside

You said "Let's run away to China", but

Where am I going if you're not close to me anymore,

If the Nile is no longer there?

Don't call, call, call, call anymore, it doesn't hurt, hurt, hurt, hurt anymore anyway

Feels like I'm drowning, sinking, sinking going down

I don't want to swim, swim anymore here in the neighborhood

I'm staying here, I'm wasting another night, I'm looking for the Nile in the Naviglio

It's seven o'clock here, you call in after, I won't answer

Smoking by the poolside

You said "Let's run away to China", but

Where am I going if you're not close to me anymore,

If the Nile is no longer there?

Don't call, call, call, call anymore

It doesn't hurt, hurt, hurt, hurt anymore anyway

Feels like I'm drowning, sinking, sinking going down

I don't want to swim, swim anymore here in the neighborhood

If the Nile is no longer there

1. Possible self-reference; Mahmood's father is Egyptian.2. A naviglio was a navigable canal built around Milan, where Mahmood was born.3. Self-reference; Mahmood was indeed born in September.

• Artist:Mahmood
• Album:Gioventù bruciata (2019)