Vivere Lyrics in English Andrea Bocelli , Gerardina Trovato

Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Vivere by Andrea Bocelli from Italian to English.
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I live copying yesterday
And I'm always in the middle of trouble
I live and ask you what you are
But, mirror, you never talk
I, who'll never be able to create anything
I love love but not people
I, who'll never be a god
Living, nobody ever taught us
Living, photocopying our past
Living, even if I didn't ask for it
To live, like a song that
Nobody will sing
But if you saw the man
In front of your door
Sleeping wrapped in cardboard
If you listened to the world
One morning
Without the sound of rain
You, who can create with your voice
You think people's thoughts
Then, of God, there's only God
Living, nobody ever taught us
Living, you can't live without a past
Living is beautiful even if you never asked
There'll be a song
Always somebody who'll sing it
Somebody isn't enough for me
Living still looking for the great love
Living like we should never die
Living to then suddenly realize
That deep down this life, you
You haven't lived it
Living still looking for the great love
Living like we should never die
Living to then suddenly realize
That deep down this life, you
You never lived it
I tell you no
I tell you yes
I tell you that
I want to live
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Angelo Anastasio, Celso Valli, Gerardina Trovato, Eugenio Finardi
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SONG MEANING

Vivere ("To Live") is a vibrant dialogue where Andrea Bocelli and Gerardina Trovato look into the mirror and confess their doubts, fears, and stubborn hopes. They admit to “ricopiando yesterday”—copying yesterday—while stumbling through life’s mess, loving love but not always loving people, and wondering why no one ever taught us how to live. The song travels from personal insecurity to social awareness, pausing at the image of a man sleeping in a cardboard box, then soaring back to the power of a single voice that can still create beauty.

Despite the melancholy, the chorus explodes with determination: life is worth singing even when it feels unrequested, half-lived, or borrowed from the past. "Vivere" invites us to chase the grande amore, live as if we might never die, and finally shout “Ho voglia di vivere!”“I want to live!” It is both a gentle reminder and a joyful challenge to craft our own melody before the song is over.

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