Lo straniero [English translation]

With this face of a stranger

I am only a real man

even if to you it will not seem like it.

I have clear eyes like the sea

capable only of dreaming

while by now I no longer dream.

Half pirate, half artist

a tramp, a musician

who steals almost as much as he gives.

With this mouth that will drink

from every fountain it will see

and perhaps it will never stop.

With this face of a stranger

I've went through my life

without knowing where to go.

It was the summer sun

and a thousand women in love

to ripen my age.

I openly caused pain

and sometimes I also suffered

but without ever crying.

And it is known that my soul

will end up in purgatory

unless there is a miracle.

With this face of a stranger

on an abandoned ship

I arrived to you.

Now you are a prisoner

of this splendid chimera,

of this ageless love.

You will be queen and you will reign,

the things that you will dream

will become reality.

Our love will last

for a short eternity

for as long as death will not come.

Our love will last

for a short eternity

for as long as death will not come.

• Artist:Georges Moustaki