Tango per due [English translation]

A couple, silent

slightly stiff, as if posing, as they dance one evening.

Life is just something left behind, it's not here anymore but it used to.

Very proper, in their Sunday best1, a blurry elegance attained with great effort

today has a different face but I do know about that past.

I know you'd have stories to tell

and memories soften, but do not spoil them

so many things and faces to talk about

"enough to fill more than a novel", as they say.

Stories born from a fleeting "See you tomorrow"

grown over days of "yes" and "no"

lightning in a suburban sky

and the tango that introduced you two was rapid fire.

He: rod, piston, lever, muscles, attitude, garage, sun

She: calm, guitar, sail, secrets, woman, warmth, violets

He: bars, alcohol, nicotine, back-combed hair, tie, bicycle

She: rayon, a young lady, a curly perm.

A couple in front of a glass of a nameless white wine, fizzy anhydride

Life is such a funny thing, yet if you say so, no one laughs.

A couple bound by days, departures and returns, strength and chain

Give me your memories, tell me it was worth it.

Now the lights are off, people are leaving, greetings and noise

Tell me you are going to make love, like in the old days

What once was a secret of a meadow or a riverbed, of a shady boulevard

that game, burning and discrete,

always the same and never the same.

Who knows if what one is looking for

what you want and don't want at the same time

is so easy to find,

is on every street, right on our side

lost in so many boxes filled with smells

and corners and curtains I'm not familiar with

imprints of landscapes and colors

a handful of tango that guided you two.

He: rod, piston, lever, muscles, attitude, garage, sun

She: calm, guitar, sail, secrets, woman, warmth, violets

He: bars, alcohol, nicotine, back-combed hair, tie, bicycle

She: rayon, a young lady, she...

1. literally: "Sunday-ized" a made-up word

• Artist:Nina Zilli
• Album:Note Di Viaggio - Capitolo 1: Venite Avanti...