Io vorrei... non vorrei... ma se vuoi [English translation]

Where do you go when you find yourself alone again?

Memory, as you know, doesn’t soothe

When she left, for example

I transformed my house into a shrine

And from then it is only today that I stopped being delirious

Who cured me?

I’m scared to say that it’s you

Now we are already closer

I’d like to… wouldn’t want to… unless you want to

How can a rock limit the sea?

Even if I don’t want to

I find myself flying again

The blue sweeps

and the green lands

The harsh falls

and then the climbs

Up in the open sky

and down in the desert

And then up again

with a great leap

Where do you go when you find yourself alone again?

Without wings, as you know, one can’t fly

That day, for example, I found myself

almost lost in that bed so wide

Stalactites on the ceiling, my days with her

I hugged death

I’m scared to say that it was for you

that I woke up

Now there’s only a step between us

I’d like to… wouldn’t want to… unless you want to

How can a rock limit the sea?

Even if I don’t want to

I find myself flying again

The blue sweeps

and the green lands

The harsh falls

and then the climbs

Up in the open sky

and down in the desert

And then up again

with a great leap

• Artist:Lucio Battisti
• Album:Il Mio Canto Libero (1972)