Le vie dei colori [English translation]

Oh, my beauty

I'm going away

And I'm not taking you with me

It's a journey that

Everyone makes only with themselves

Because it's not like you go somewhere close by

Because you don't have a destiny

A brick wants to be a house

A morning wants to become a church

And the fool inside me

Who asks himself what it is

Wants to become something

And it'll be a road without an end

Under a sword or on a rope

To look for my Far West

To find the Holy Grail

A race across the border

I'll take a light

For you out there

When I walk

The paths of colours

I'll climb the rocks in the wind

On the trails of those who won or lost

I'll wander on my odyssey

In the idea of you, my goddess

Cut your braids and go to the convent

I'll take a voice

For you out there

When I walk

The paths of colours

There was a knight

A black and white prisoner

Without a dream or a secret

Without faith or heresy

Without the wings of a steed

Without the waves of a sailing boat

If destiny turns around what I spent

I wouldn't be strong for your weight

To fly in a rodeo

To be worth something in a tournament

Of death and be your husband

I'll take peace

For you out there

When I walk

The paths of colours

There was a knight

A black and white prisoner

Without a place or a path

Without the devil or God

Without a sparrowhawk's sky

Without the cry of a warrior

I leave you without losing you

And I lose you a little bit

Even if then

Leaving you is losing myself a bit-

Oh, my beauty, oh, honey, goodbye

I'm away

With an immense

Thought of you

And a new sense of myself

There was a yellow knight

Who stole a horse from the cliffs

And a crystal from the meter mines

On the chimneys he drew a coral castle

And the whole neighbourhood went to the ball

Choir: It's a party, it's a party

There was a red knight

That rose on the backs of storms

Above the ditch of the city evenings

Behind a sky, animated by fences

Inside the rough seas

Of an ember of immensity

Oh, my beauty, oh, honey, goodbye, oh, my beauty

Choir: It's a party, it's a party

There was a blue knight

That captured the youth of springs

That brought enslaved chimeras

Freed the cranes from the metal of a building site

Towards a prayer site down there

Where you, too, will arrive

Walking on the paths of colours

• Artist:Claudio Baglioni
• Album:Io sono qui (1995)