Ti Vorrei Sollevare ("I’d Like to Lift You Up") is a heartfelt promise to pick someone up when life feels heavy. Elisa paints vivid pictures of springtime light, golden sunsets, and weightless hearts to show how a single connection can transform darkness into hope. Each line bursts with the rush of new feelings: silence broken by love, a soul awakened, and the wish to console the other person before time sweeps them both away.
Beyond simple comfort, the song dreams big. Elisa invites her companion to “viaggiare su ali di carta”—to travel on paper wings—where imagination is their ticket and the wind becomes a playful guide. Under star-filled skies they ask the timeless question, “Cos’è l’amore?” and find their answer in holding each other close. The result is an uplifting anthem about rescuing one another, daring to dream together, and discovering that love’s truest power is shared strength and wonder.
Elisa, born Elisa Toffoli in 1977 in Trieste in northeastern Italy, is one of the country's most acclaimed singer-songwriters. She grew up in the border town of Monfalcone, in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region, where hearing many languages early on shaped her rare gift for singing across them.
She debuted in 1997 with the album Pipes & Flowers and, unusually for an Italian artist, built her early career writing and singing mostly in English. Her breakthrough came in 2001, when she won the Sanremo Music Festival with "Luce (Tramonti a nord est)", her first song in Italian, co-written with Zucchero. The song became her first number one at home and remains one of the most beloved Italian pop ballads of its era.