Riccardo fogli lyrics malinconia translation

Imagine a dark period of life without love

In search for a night created for drinking,

And all your life is a glass,

And you wait for the daybreak to fall asleep.

And this is melancholy,

It accompanies you on the way,

And leaves you after one hour,

But you know that it will return.

Imagine a friend who must leave

And probably, you will never hear about him any more:

You don't know whether to cry or to laugh,

You don't say anything and you have thousand things to say.

And this is melancholy,

It accompanies you,

It gives you right

But in return who knows what it wants.

And this is melancholy, an hour that goes away,

A year which it is necessary to forget

In loneliness with your sadness in a bar.

Imagine that one day you ask in the street:

“Is this life only one?”

You speak a language which others don't understand.

Even staying in one meter away from your house.

This is melancholy

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