Francesco Guccini — Farewell song lyrics and translation

The page contains the lyrics and English translation of the song "Farewell" by Francesco Guccini.

Lyrics

E sorridevi e sapevi sorridere coi tuoi vent' anni portati così,
come si porta un maglione sformato su un paio di jeans;
come si sente la voglia di vivere
che scoppia un giorno e non spieghi il perchè:
un pensiero cullato o un amore che ènato e non sai che cos'è.
Giorni lunghi fra ieri e domani, giorni strani,
giorni a chiedersi tutto cos' era, vedersi ogni sera;
ogni sera passare su a prenderti con quel mio buffo montone orientale,
ogni sera là, a passo di danza, a salire le scale
e sentire i tuoi passi che arrivano, il ticchettare del tuo buonumore,
quando aprivi la porta il sorriso ogni volta mi entrava nel cuore.
Poi giùal bar dove ci si ritrova, nostra alcova,
era tanto potere parlarci, giocare a guardarci,
tra gli amici che ridono e suonano attorno ai tavoli pieni di vino,
religione del tirare tardi e aspettare mattino;
e una notte lasciasti portarti via, solo la nebbia e noi due in sentinella,
la cittàaddormentata non era mai stata cosìtanto bella.
Era facile vivere allora ogni ora,
chitarre e lampi di storie fugaci, di amori rapaci,
e ogni notte inventarsi una fantasia da bravi figli dell' epoca nuova,
ogni notte sembravi chiamare la vita a una prova.
Ma stupiti e felici scoprimmo che era nato qualcosa piùin fondo,
ci sembrava d' avere trovato la chiave segreta del mondo.
Non fu facile volersi bene, restare assieme
o pensare d' avere un domani e stare lontani;
tutti e due a immaginarsi: «Con chi sarà?"In ogni cosa un pensiero costante,
un ricordo lucente e durissimo come il diamante
e a ogni passo lasciare portarci via da un' emozione non piena, non colta:
rivedersi era come rinascere ancora una volta.
Ma ogni storia ha la stessa illusione, sua conclusione,
e il peccato fu creder speciale una storia normale.
Ora il tempo ci usura e ci stritola in ogni giorno che passa correndo,
sembra quasi che ironico scruti e ci guardi irridendo.
E davvero non siamo piùquegli eroi pronti assieme a affrontare ogni impresa;
siamo come due foglie aggrappate su un ramo in attesa.
«The triangle tingles and the trumpet plays slow»…
Farewell, non pensarci e perdonami se ti ho portato via un poco d' estate
con qualcosa di fragile come le storie passate:
forse un tempo poteva commuoverti, ma ora èinutile credo, perchè
ogni volta che piangi e che ridi non piangi e non ridi con me…

Lyrics translation

And you smiled and you knew how to smile with your twenty years carried like this,
how to wear a shapeless sweater on a pair of jeans;
how does the desire to live feel
that breaks out one day and doesn't explain why:
a lulled thought or a love that isborn and you do not know what it is.
Long days between yesterday and tomorrow, Strange Days,
days wondering what it was, seeing each other every night;
every night I come up to pick you up with that funny Oriental RAM of mine,
every night there, dancing, climbing the stairs
and feel your footsteps coming, the ticking of your good mood,
when I opened the door, the smile went into my heart every time.
Then down to the bar where we meet, our alcove,
it was so much being able to talk to us, playing to watch us,
among friends laughing and playing around tables full of wine,
religion of late pull and wait morning;
and one night you let yourself go, only the fog and the two of us in the Sentry,
the sleeping city had never been so beautiful.
It was easy to live then every hour,
guitars and flashes of fleeting stories, of rapacious loves,
and every night come up with a fantasy as good children of the new age,
every night you seemed to call life a test.
But astonished and happy we found out that something had been born deeper,
we thought we'd found the secret key to the world.
It wasn't easy to love each other, to stay together
or think of having a tomorrow and stay away;
both of them thinking, " Who Will he be with?"In everything a constant thought,
a memory as shiny and hard as the diamond
and at every step let us be carried away by an emotion not full, not grasped:
seeing each other again was like being reborn again.
But every story has the same illusion, its conclusion,
and sin was special believing a normal story.
Now time wears us out and crushes us in every day that passes running,
it seems almost ironic to look at and look at us in anger.
And really we are no longer those heroes ready together to face every feat;
we are like two leaves clinging on a branch waiting.
"The triangle tingles and the trumpet plays slow»…
Farewell, don't think about it and forgive me if I took away some summer
with something as fragile as past stories:
maybe it used to move you, but now it's no use, because
every time you cry and laugh don't cry and don't laugh with me…