LEARN LYRICS

La Rondine paints the bittersweet panorama of a love that has flown away like a swallow, leaving the singer hovering between sky and ground. Mango’s lyrics mix delicate nature images—wind from the North, a half-shared moon, a “wrong sky”—with the personal ache of unfinished dreams. The narrator clings to private visions he refuses to “sell,” yet he cannot help wondering if the next message from his lost lover will be a goodbye or a sign of hope.

At its heart, the song captures that suspended feeling after a breakup: you are mid-flight, still lifted by memories but already stepping into an empty space. The swallow symbolizes both the freedom and the fleetingness of love, while lines like “sei il mio volo a metà” (“you are my half-flight”) underline how incomplete life feels without the other. Despite the sorrow, there is a tender acceptance—an understanding that some loves live on only in the sky of our dreams, forever circling yet never quite landing.