D’improvviso [English translation]

Afternoons in the courtyard

with a motionless sun and the railings.

I can still remember the cold, your rosy cheeks and my sweater.

We used try to sound like grown-ups 1

but nothing grew as big as our dreams.

Just another cigarette and here we wait for a train that never comes.

A hundred thousand lives ago [we were] inseparable, now where are you, what are you doing?

Suddenly I think of you, suddenly I think...

that I'd like to feel you, even for a moment, I'd like to hold you as I have always done,

I'd like to look at you without a word, leaving behind everything we don't need.

Although here's not that bad and even if it's not Christmas, I'd like to

feel you, even for a moment, to know it's important to you too.

Just like abandoned monuments, alone in the middle of a square

the dust of life has covered any beauty

A hundred thousand lives ago [we were] inseparable, now where are you, what are you doing?

Suddenly I think of you, suddenly I think...

that I'd like to feel you, even for a moment, I'd like to hold you as I have always done,

I'd like to look at you without a word, leaving behind everything we don't need.

Although here's not that bad and even if it's not Christmas, I'd like to

feel you, even for a moment, to know that...

Years go by, like an out-of-time dance, and you're with me, you're with me.

I'd like to feel you, even for a moment, I'd like to hold you

as I have always done,

I'd like to look at you without a word, leaving behind everything we don't need.

Although here's not that bad and even if it's not Christmas, I'd like to

feel you, even for a moment, to know it's important for you too...

it's important to you too,

it's important to you too.

1. also: to play house