Respiro [English translation]

Make it so that I soon sing

the things that you are.

Let me stop the time

that dances between us.

Let it be like breathing

for as long as you are here

my greeting to the day

so that one never lets

the other go.

I would like

that my journey

of a great wanderer

ended with you,

and, for us,

would become like breathing

that having loved each other,

annulled, divided,

chased each other, fulfilled.

I want for it to be like breathing

the love between us

to not bend ourselves inside

to give more of ourselves.

Let it be like breathing

for as long as you are here

my greeting to the day

so that one doesn't let the other go.

I would like

that my journey

of a great wanderer

ended with you,

and, for us,

would become like breathing

that having loved each other,

annulled, divided,

chased each other, fulfilled.

And I would like

that every time

that you’re looking for something

you would look for me

and, for us,

would become like breathing

our song,

would become like breathing

the very same memory of us.

I want for it to be like breathing

the love between us

to not bend ourselves inside,

to give more of ourselves.

Let it be like breathing

for as long as you are here

my greeting to the day

so that one never lets

the other go.

• Artist:Franco Simone