Non molto lontano da qui [English translation]

My love, not everytime everything goes in the right way,

But it's not just because there was bad weather

That the crop was destroyed.

And it's funny how the time flows

Better than expected: an incumbent panic

Forces us to tame

Our ardent smile, a sudden well-being.

Is happines maybe just a remote hope?

Enjoying the sun in December: not so far from here it snows.

Not so far from here people devises laboured runs,

Anxiously for1 coming back to the starting point, and forgets

The amount of the real issue at stake, and how and when while outside it's raining.

My love, one should not be blamed for not being able to handle his joy

And for not feeling at one's ease in sorrow and resignation.

And it is innatural how sometimes we force ourselves to ignore

The constant weep our our real inclinations:

The margin of error of a never-ceasing removal.

Is happines maybe just a remote hope?

Enjoying the sun in December: not so far from here it snows.

Not so far from here people shows off obscure extravagances

Anxiously wanting to surprise, wearing their masks

And forgets the bravery mask for raising the bid for their relaunch2.

Not so far from here it snows.

Not so far from here it snows.

1. She doesn't explicitely spcecifies if they want to do that or not2. In Italian “rilancio“ means both raising the bid and relaunch themselves, so it is implicitely assumed that each time you relaunch yourself you're doing a bid!

• Artist:Carmen Consoli