Ti penso [English translation]

I think of you as if I had inside

my silence your warm voice

I think of you as if from the wind

you fell on me without noise

and as if in the wind

after consuming some tenderness

we two started to fly.

I think of you when evening comes

because the twilight makes me fantasise

I lay down I look towards the sky

looking for the roof of your white shoulders

as if that sky could give me

the good reason not to feel unwell

as if feeling unwell depended on my will.

And I think of you, I think of you

even though it's senseless to engage you again1

but I think of you, nevertheless

even just for those looks2 you left in the depths of me.

I think of you because I don't claim

as many do to forget

and I think of you because in my mouth

I still have the taste3 of your laughs

as if by swallowing that smile of yours

I could still manage to be infected with it

but I find myself laughing alone, now that I think of you.

I think of you, even though it's senseless

to engage you again but I think of you,

nevertheless even just for those looks

you left in the depths of me.

Maybe I'm stealing moments to my life

maybe it's not even right to be so

only your face guards all the time I lost

but after all how would I have lived without you.

But I think of you, nevertheless even just for those looks

you left in the depths of me...

1. "Ritornare [a stare] insieme" i.e. to go back to date, to be close, to be a couple. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/stare_insieme2. Literally "eyes", but here means both as the piercing looks stamped the image of the eyes in the bottom of of the other's eyes/mind.3. And the pleasure.

• Artist:Massimo Ranieri