Com'è triste Venezia [English translation]

How sad Venice is

Only a year since

How sad Venice is

If love no longer is.

We try to find words

That no will say

And if one wishes to cry

One can no longer.

How sad Venice is

If on the boat there is

Only one gondolier1

That looks towards you.

And it doesn't ask you for anything

For in your eyes

And in your mind

There is only her.

How sad Venice is

Only a year since

How sad Venice is

If love no longer is.

The museums and the churches

Will open for us

But they do not know it

that now you're not here.

How sad Venice is

Only a year since

How sad Venice is

If love no longer is.

It frolicks

In front of the moon

That one day saw you mine

And no longer sees you.

Goodbye seagulls in flight

For one day you greeted

Two black dots on the ground

Goodbye also from her.

How sad Venice is

Only a year since

How sad Venice is

If love no longer is.

1. Person who propels and steers a gondola

• Artist:Charles Aznavour