Scontrarsi means "to clash" or "to collide". While it can refer to a physical impact, it's often used metaphorically to describe disagreements or conflicts between people, ideas, or emotions.
In the context of this song, it's used to describe the painful reality of relationships: "Per poi scontrarsi e ricorrere i ricordi ormai ingialliti" (Then to clash and resort to the now yellowed memories). It vividly portrays the moment when the initial passion fades and couples face the harsh realities of life, leading to conflict and a longing for past, idealized moments.
Have you ever felt the difference between a fleeting moment of passion and the hard work of a long-term relationship? MINA's song "Lascia," which means "Let Go" or "Allow," explores this very idea. The lyrics invite you to let your heart "fly away tonight on the great wings of a small poem," suggesting a desire to escape from a difficult reality. It's a call to let your soul take over from your mind, to find comfort even if it's just for a moment.
The song paints a vivid picture of this contrast. It says that loving with passion for one night is "simple," but loving each other in life is "more difficult." The lyrics describe the struggles of a real relationship: clashing with each other, looking back at old, "yellowed" photographs of better times, and fighting against a harsh reality. In the end, there's a powerful conflict: while the heart tries to find comfort, even in a lie, the rational mind "does not forgive the miserable end of a love."
Mina was born Anna Maria Mazzini in Busto Arsizio, Lombardy, in 1940 and grew up in Cremona, which is why Italians still call her "la Tigre di Cremona". She started out in 1958 singing rock and roll in clubs, and within a couple of years she was all over Italian radio and television, with a three-octave voice that could go from a whisper to a roar in one phrase.
She is known for songs like "Tintarella di luna", "Se telefonando", "Grande, grande, grande" and "Parole parole", her talking duet with Alberto Lupo. In 1978 she gave her last public concert at Bussoladomani in Versilia, recorded as "Mina Live '78", and then stopped performing live for good. She moved to Switzerland and kept releasing an album almost every year from the studio, including a best-selling duet album with Adriano Celentano in 1998, and she is the only artist to top the Italian album chart in every decade since the 1960s.