Una mattina d'estate [English translation]

What is it

that makes summer so sweet?

It is so bright in the morning

that I immediately want to go outside.

It is that

you need few garments,

it takes little to amaze me,

it is enough to go out into the sun.

I wish that something as small as that

was always enough for my heart—

the life that heats up

a summer morning.

I know it is so very small

that I can't even explain it.

It is a flower in a glass—

it is a summer morning.

And there is

a smell in the air

that makes me think back

to something beautiful.

What then

if the wind came up a bit?

It already would blow far,

it already would be up in the sky.

I wish that something as small as that

was always enough for my heart—

the life that heats up

a summer morning.

I wish that something as small as that

was always enough for my heart—

the life that heats up

a summer morning.

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I know it is so very small

that I can't even explain it.

It is a flower in a glass—

it is a summer morning.

• Artist:Patty Pravo
• Album:Una donna da sognare (2000)