Quando finisce un amore [English translation]

When a love affair ends like this, like mine did,

Without a reason or a cause, with nothing

You feel a knot in your throat

You feel a hole in your stomach

You feel a void in your head and you don't understand anything

A friend is not enough and distracting yourself isn't enough

Drinking until your drunk isn't enough

Because now nothing can be enough for you

And at heart you feel there must be a cause

You search everywhere for a reason

But there is never a reason

Why a love affair must end

And you'd like to change your face and change your name

You'd like a change of scene and to change your life

And you'd like to change the world

But you know perfectly well

That it would be no use

Because she is there, because she is there

Because she is there, because she is there

Because she's there in your bones

Because she's there in your mind

Because she's there in your life

And you can't send her out anymore

Not even if you changed your face

Not even if you changed your name

Not even if you got a change of scene

Not even if you changed your life

Not even if you changed the world

But, if I could think it over awhile

I'd know perfectly well that tomorrow will be different

She will not be her

I will not be the same man

Perhaps I will have already forgotten her

If only I could think it over awhile

Yes, if only I could think it over awhile

But I can't, because...

When a love affair ends...

• Artist:Riccardo Cocciante
• Album:Anima (1974)