Come Mai Lyrics in English 883

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Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Come Mai by 883 from Italian to English.

The nights don't end

At dawn in the street

I take them home with me

I turn them into melody

And then I find myself writing

Kilometers of letters

Hoping to see you here again

It's useless to talk about it, you know

You'd never understand

To follow you till dawn and then

See where you go

I feel a bit like a kid but

I know with you it won't end

The dream of feeling inside a movie

And then suddenly

You showed up

I don't know who decided it

You got me more and more

A daily war

With rationality

But it's okay as long as it helps

To get me out

How come, who are you

To do this to me

Whole nights waiting for you

Waiting for you

Tell me how come, who are you

To keep me here

Sitting here in a room

Praying for a yes

If my friends knew

That it's really me

To think they believed

I was almost a god

Because I never stopped

No pointless fling

Killing oneself over love

But for who?

You know, all of a sudden

You showed up

I don't know who decided it

You got me more and more

A daily war

With rationality

But it's okay as long as it helps

To get me out

How come, who are you

To do this to me

Whole nights waiting for you

Waiting for you

Tell me how come, who are you

To keep me here

Sitting here in a room

Praying for a yes

Tell me how come, who are you

To do this to me

Whole nights waiting for you

Waiting for you

Tell me how come, who are you

To keep me here

Sitting here in a room

Praying for a yes

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SONG MEANING

Come Mai is a catchy 90s Italian pop anthem that captures the dizzy rush of falling head-over-heels in love. The narrator wanders through endless nights, turning streetlights and sleepless walks into melodies, only to find himself scribbling kilometers of letters to a girl who has suddenly flipped his world upside down. He feels like a kid inside a movie, torn between romantic daydreams and the voice of cold logic that keeps losing every single battle.

At its heart the song is a playful confession of vulnerability: once seen as a fearless quasi-god by his friends, our hero is now glued to a chair, waiting for a single yes from the woman who bewitched him. The repeated question "Come mai?" (“How come?”) is both wonder and disbelief. How can one person spark sleepless nights, irrational hopes, and a fearless desire to chase sunrise just to know where she goes? It is a celebration of love’s power to overrule reason, turn routine into adventure, and make even the coolest guy pray for just one sign that his feelings are returned.

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