Il peso della valigia [English translation]

You came all this way to get here

and you had to leave as a child

with a little cardboard suitcase

that you started to fill

two leaves from that clearing already no longer there

fake lipsticks and a box of jewels

and the suitcase started to get heavy

you still had to leave

and the eyes reached the color of the sky

by dint of looking at it

and with those eyes what you were seeing

no one can know

and sun rain snow storm

on the suitcase and in your head

and legs for going

and mouth for kissing

You came all this way to get here

and at every stop there was always somebody

and almost always you tried to talk

but nobody was hearing

and you gave yourself, you took something, who knows

but the words which remained

ended up all in the suitcase

and there they stayed

and your legs were always going

just costantly slower

and your arms were holding barely

the weight of the suitcase

and sun rain snow storm

on the suitcase and in your head

and legs for going

and mouth for kissing

sun rain snow storm

on your hair on you what you saw

and arms for holding and hips for dancing

You came all this way to get here

but maybe now you can rest

a hot bath and something cool

to drink and to eat

I'll open the suitcase while you stay there

and little by little I'll show you

there were just four butterflies

a little harder to die

and sun rain snow storm

on the suitcase and in your head

and legs for going

and mouth for kissing

sun rain snow storm

on your hair on you what you saw

and arms for holding and hips for dancing