Luna di marmellata [English translation]

A long journey, and a boring one too

we have arrived, tired,

our bags are heavy

and our clothes are creased.

Thank goodness we got here,

in a well-lit hotel

there's a room for us,

for us, who have traveled so much.

I know everything around here by now

and I know the cold feeling of this key in my hand.

And you are getting ready to inhabit

this room as if it was

a house and I wait

while you put in the drawers

your clothes and mine too.

Outside the window

there's a sensational moon

that watches us with sadness.

A jam-moon1 for the two of us

we have a house and kids, both of us,

but we smiled shamelessly

at the prospect of one last love.

1. a pun on honeymoon

• Artist:Paolo Conte