Donna selvaggia donna [English translation]

It fills me with enthusiasm

– The enthusiasm that you have inside,

You can't play like that: either too much love or hate, no1.

[You can be] as childish as you want,

But be gentle – a few times more – if you can.

I like very much listening to music, too,

But if I break it up, you think I harden my heart.

Is it possible that

everything [for you] is just either horrible or marvellous, my baby?

Woman, wild woman, I like almost everything of what you do.

Woman, wild woman, you are a fascinating contradiction.

[You can have] most of it, if you want, you cannot [have] everything.

Woman, wild woman, you cannot live on sex alone.

Without make-up you are

more beautiful and younger,

I won't discuss – by the way – your free choices:

But – if I won't wear

those cowboy boots – you cannot despise me.

Woman, wild woman, I like almost everything of what you do.

Woman, wild woman, you are a fascinating contradiction.

[You can have] most of it, if you want, you cannot [have] everything.

Woman, wild woman, you cannot live on sex alone.

1. No, with the inteded meaning of “you can't act like that”

• Artist:Lucio Battisti
• Album:Una donna per amico (1978)