Eros Ramazzotti, Claudio Guidetti, Maurizio Fabrizio - Eros Ramazzotti, Adelio Cogliati

(unofficial english version)
HE ARRIVED
AT THE TIME OF WAR
FROM THE WAVES
TOUCHING THE GROUND
HE DISEMBARKED AND ALL AROUND
SAW HIS HUMANITY

SHE LOOKED
INTO THOSE DREAMING EYES
SO ALIVE
SO PENETRATING
AND ALL OF A SUDDEN SHE FELT IN LOVE

SHE FELT AS THOUGH SHE WAS
GROWING WINGS
WHEN AT LAST
HE CLASPED HER HAND
SHE FELT BUTTERFLIES IN HER STOMACH

THAT NIGHT SHE BATHED HER HAPPINESS
WITH HOT TEARS
WHICH SHE LET TRICKLE INTO THE SEA
ADDING SALT TO SALT

SHE
SHE SAID TO HIM
YOU ARE...ARE MY LOVE
I LIVE MY LIFE FOR YOU
BUT HE
HE ANSWERED
I HAVE A SMALL STONE IN MY POCKET
TO MAKE PEACE WHERE THERE IS NONE...SO...
I’LL TAKE IT
WHERE IT TAKES ME
THIS HOPE WHICH I HAVE INSIDE
WHICH WILL NEVER ABANDON ME
I WILL TAKE IT
WITH ALL OF ITS WEIGHT
LITTLE STONE
PERHAPS ONE DAY IT WILL LIE STILL

AND OFF HE WENT
BECAUSE HIS FATE
IS STRONGER THAN ANY WIND
OFF HE WENT, WITH HIS LOAD, LEAVING HER BEHIND
THAT NIGHT THE BREATH SHE
MUSTERED FROM DEEP INSIDE
SO AS TO CRY HIS NAME
REACHED HIGH UP INTO THE SKY