Magia means "magic" in Italian. While it might seem like a common word, its repeated use and central theme in the song elevate its significance.
Eros Ramazzotti uses "magia" to describe life itself, emphasizing its wonder and the incredible journey of growing up. He sings, "Perché la vita è una magia" (Because life is magic), transforming a simple word into a profound statement about the beauty and mystery of existence, especially when viewed through the eyes of a child.
"Magia" is Eros Ramazzotti singing to his child, and through that child to anyone still growing up.
The opening verses paint the world as a hard, cynical place that turns its back the moment you take a wrong step and always makes you pay for it. Against that, the chorus is a plea not to armour yourself against love, because parent and child are more alike than the child yet knows.
The middle of the song is pure parenthood: remembering the moment of birth while listening to the child's heartbeat (a nod to the album's title, Battito Infinito), watching the uncertain first steps and then the applause, and seeing his younger self in the child now growing up.
The advice stays deliberately unglamorous: training the soul takes practice, settling for less is its own kind of death, conquer the world but stay free, and let other people's gossip roll off you. Underneath it all sits the refrain that gives the song its title: life itself is a kind of magic, and the closing thought that makes it a father's song rather than a lecture — that the child's life is, in part, his own too.