Occhi da orientale [English translation]

Oriental eyes which narrate emotions

Limpid gaze of April with the sweetest of illusions

Everything written on a face which doesn’t manage to learn

How to keep his/her pain at least between his/her teeth

I’ve fallen in love over five hundred nights already

Of a barely open mouth, of a breathless breath

If this darkness could annihilate the universe

I may be able to look at you without feeling lost

But sleep a little bit more, don’t wake up, not yet

I’m afraid of touching you and ruin everything

No, sleep a little bit more, I don’t know yet myself

How to look at you in the adequate way

Inside your disarming eyes

Eyes of lucid amber between eyelids of violets

Limpid gaze of April, like when the sun comes out

And I’ll be the cloud which will keep you hidden

So that the others won’t realise they’ve lost you

But sleep a little bit more, don’t wake up, not yet

I’m afraid of touching you and ruin everything

No, sleep a little bit more, I don’t know yet myself

How to look at you in the adequate way

Inside your disarming and innocent eyes, devastating

Those eyes of yours which I have in front of me

Keep them shut a few more instants

Oriental eyes which narrate emotions

And what else can I do? I can write songs

Your eyes…

If this music could annihilate the universe

I may be able to look at you without feeling lost

Into your eyes

Scattered

Into your eyes

• Artist:Daniele Silvestri
• Album:Occhi Da Orientale (2000)