Niente è andato perso [English translation]

Adriano :

standing still between the wind and the car traffic

You don’t see me, the bystanders hide us

Then you’re in front of me with your usual smile

I stay empty-handed, only with my face

But it seems like yesterday, time slips by fast

What are you drinking? And on the table

the photographs of our good days

They’re a memory

stuck in our hair

What are you doing? What are you saying?

You need to be skilled to be happy

and now you laugh and laugh,

glass after glass,

at my words

Mina :

Don’t you see that the space is so big and lasts the time of a moment

Everything is there and nothing got lost

Now look at me, yes!

And dont tell me “It’s all gone now” and that nothing is left,

just a few shards

or the impression of a glance

Talk to me now, yes!

Adriano :

Close your eyes

it’s a barbaric time

The sky falls in snowflakes

and a freezing wind

around the motionless and almost deserted city

Your beauty here is the only thing certain

but take the utopias, for example :

they last a heartbeat

while lies

change clothes

and yet it still confuses me, this apparent calmness

Tell me what we have actually chosen

Cmon! What are you saying? That sometimes it’s the fear to be happy

Then it’s your smile that

climbs the silence

and stops the time

Mina :

Don’t you see that the space is so big and lasts the time of a moment

Everything is there and nothing got lost

Now look at me, yes!

And dont tell me “It’s all gone now” and that nothing is left,

just a few shards

or the impression of a glance

Talk to me now, yes!

Adriano :

For countless times

we tell each other our thoughts

during this night just like many others

when, while laughing, you’ll tell me, as per usual :

“But don’t you see that...”

Mina :

Don’t you see that the space is so big (Adriano: Of course I see it!) and lasts the time of a moment (Adriano: No, you’re the one that says i don’t see it ,but i see it!)

Everything is there and nothing got lost

Now look at me, yes! (Adriano : I’m looking.)

And dont tell me “It’s all gone now” and that nothing is left (Adriano : Yes, of course...)

just a few shards

or the impression of a glance

Talk to me now, yes!

Don’t you see that

(Adriano : I’m looking at you...) the space is so big (Adriano : ...and you’re beautiful) and lasts the time of a moment (Adriano: Yes but, which moment?)

Everything is there and nothing got lost (Adriano : Well, no, this is just what you said.)

Now look at me, yes!

And dont tell me “It’s all gone now” and that nothing is left (Yeah but,it’s not true!),

a few shards

or the impression of a glance (Adriano : What do you mean a few shards? Mina, what are you saying?)

Talk to me now, yes!

• Artist:Mina Celentano
• Album:MINACELENTANO - The Complete Recordings (2021)