Togliamoci la voglia [English translation]

What is it that you don’t have and you’d like to have?

What is it that wants you and you let it go?

What is it that touches you and you can’t touch it?

What is it that holds you back, while you have to take the leap?

Let’s scratch our itch tonight,

let’s listen to this moment;

and if you don’t think about it, it’ll be more intense;

if something is left, it’ll be left here.1

Let’s scratch our itch tonight;

I’d forgive myself anyway;

to me, it happens [when I’m] with you,

to me, it happens [when I’m] with you.

What is it that begins and you need to go?

What is it that’s downhill if you want to go up?2

What’s wrong with feeling fine? (Fine)

Like, me and you now, and everybody out. (Everybody)3

What’s important?, keep it in mind.

Like me and you, we don’t give a fuck about the rest.

Let’s scratch our itch tonight,

let’s listen to this moment;

and if you don’t think about it, it’ll be more intense;

if something is left, it’s left here.

Let’s scratch our itch tonight;

I’d forgive myself anyway;

to me, it happens with you,

to me, it happens with you.

Let’s not pretend that it’s not normal

when you can feel everything, when everything matters;

to me, it happens with you,

to me, it happens with you.

Let’s not pretend, you know it hurts us;

when you’re in it, then, where do you want to go?

To me, it happens with you.

To me, it happens with you…

[It’s with you] that I stay up all night long as if it was the first time I’m doing it,

that I laugh heartily, that I’m tactful.

It’s with you that I don’t hear the alarm clock,

that I’m in a hurry,

that I understand that ‛home’ is someone waiting for you.

It’s with you that I’m not hungry,

that I’m thirsty,

that I don’t know what to do anymore.

And now, let’s scratch our itch,

let’s take off our clothes;4

it takes a lot of courage to be happy.

To me, it happens with you…

Let’s scratch our itch tonight,

let’s listen to this moment;

and if you don’t think about it, it’ll be more intense;

if something is left, it’s left here.

Let’s scratch our itch tonight;

I’d forgive myself anyway;

to me, it happens with you,

to me, it happens with you.

Tonight, we’re burning hard:5

headlights over a cliff,

the sea knocking on the rocks,

and the wind lashing - a whip.6

It’s with you that I don’t see stars falling but being born,

that I come to loving small talk,

that I understand a bit of gossip,

that I don’t think about premises,

that I [want to] have you at all costs.

To me, it happens with you.

To me, it happens with you.

To me, it happens with you.

1. This may also mean ‟it’s left behind” or ‟it stays” or ‟it remains [between us]”.2. in discesa {downhill} = easy to do; getting worse.3. This expresses a wish - in the form of a command - for all the other people to leave them alone.4. togliersi la voglia {take one’s desire off} = to indulge a whim, to scratch an itch.5. Or ‟Let’s burn hard tonight”.6. Literally ‟the wind [is] sharp/biting - razor”.

• Artist:Raige & Giulia Luzi
• Album:Alex - Sanremo Edition / Togliamoci la voglia