Rapide [English translation]

You can wait hours, asking me

To not go out to "Love"1,

or maybe was it another club?

I'm a bit weird:

I love you only when the both of us come

So why do you smear me around?

Tell me, what the fuck do you know about me?

Now I'll go have fun,

it's a common thing to do,

sleeping with other people

Maybe I won't be there

Friday in Loreto2, if you call I won't be there

Do you love me? Tell me no

Cheating makes you happy? Please, don't say no

Now that I don't have a thing I will defend myself

From the trust I didn't have and I still don't

Tell me, what's up? I can see them fall,

They're rapids, dammed in your iris

That I will climb, I will climb, you will climb, I will climb

How? I don't know

Tell me, why you made me get out

of a Mercedes? Take a train to

Nowhere i know, tonight I will forgive myself

And in your rapids I won't fall3

What will you do, if behind

you will leave Milan? Who will take,

the white room at the first floor?

Don't think about it,

the memory's worse than Hades4

I remember those afternoons at the lake,

smoking and singing softly

I wonder if you'll come back,

even with my thousand woes

I wonder if you'll come back,

with your usual pair of Nikes

Tell me, what's up? I can see them fall,

They're rapids, dammed in your iris

That I will climb, I will climb, you will climb, I will climb

How? I don't know

Tell me, why you made me get out

of a Mercedes? Take a train to

Nowhere i know, tonight I will forgive myself

And in your rapids I won't fall

If I ask you to come over for my birthday you say that, you've put a tombstone over my last text,

How many trips we had to go

Tickets bought at the last minute

Left over that table

Now believe me if I have no more fear to tell you

That I've parked my car in front of God knows whose house,

It was nothing I swear,

But how can it be called a future?

Tell me, what's up? I can see them fall,

They're rapids, dammed in your iris

That I will climb, I will climb, you will climb, I will climb

How? I don't know

Tell me, why you made me get out

of a Mercedes? Take a train to

Nowhere i know, tonight I will forgive myself

And in your rapids I won't fall

In your rapids I won't fall

1. A gay bar in Milan. This is likely the first time in his career that the singer/songwriter explicitely assesses the sexual orientation of his partner.2. Piazzale Loreto, a square in Milan, notorious for being both the heart of the local movida and the place where Benito Mussolini, her lover Claretta Petacci and other prominent regime hierarchs were hung upside down from the roof of a gas station and publicly pilloried on August 29, 1945, the day after being executed.3. Can also mean "And for your rapids (i.e. his ex's eyes) I won't fall"4. Hell in Ancient Greek mythology.