Ma come hai fatto [English translation]

I love you

Like I had never loved before in my life

So deeply that I’m afraid of myself

Of this exorbitant love

Which I feel now for you

I desire you

A new desire which tortures me

Sometimes I wonder

How is it possible

That I go to sleep

Wake up

Come and go

With you in front of me all the time

Within my eyes

Inside my thoughts

In each instant of my life

I need you

Like a boat needs the sea

To be able to float

(Like) the spring needs the Sun

To be able to bloom

(Like) a butterfly needs the flowers

A child needs a hand to lead him

A dog needs an owner

And a kite needs the wind to be able to fly

And I always need you, close to me

In each instant of my life

But how did you manage

To make me fall in love so much?

I look at myself in the mirror

And I wonder

If I’m the one there

But how did you manage

To make of my life

Something that belongs to you

To transform time

In waiting

To meet you again

No, it makes no sense

This life of mine

And the more I think about it

The more it becomes a thread

In your hands

ti voglio bene

But how did you do it?

I don’t even know when it started

I only know that in all my life

It had never happened

(It’s) the first time

I truly mean to say

‘I love you’

Within my eyes

Inside my thoughts

In each instant of my life

Always next to me

But how did you manage

To make of my life something that belongs to you

To transform time in a waiting

To see you again

(It’s) the first time I truly mean it when I say

‘I love you’

• Artist:Domenico Modugno
• Album:Domenico Modugno (1979)