L'amore nero [English translation]

I gave you my heart, one fine day,

and it never came back

In exchange, you gave me bitter herbs

and I chose to eat them.

You took the glare from my eyes:

a mirror to see you better than you really are

In exchange, you gave me the poison

of a dessert filled with thorns.

And I believed, like in a prayer,

that a love is a Spring

I trembled, ice and absinth,

in the black sea of your silence.

And I went in the middle of the desert,

which always wants everything back,

and blackberries on the brambles' branches are just an illusion.

And I went to Lady loan shark,

who always wants everything back,

For a night of wine

I will pay a hundred days of vinegar

But every night I bought a rose

and I spread it on the sidewalk,

And every petal on the ground

turned into a begging hand

and for every step towards the farewell

another thorn under my foot.