UN BEL VIAGGIO Lyrics in English Articolo 31
Impreziosisce comes from the verb impreziosire, meaning to enrich or make something precious. It's a sophisticated and less common verb that adds a touch of elegance to the lyrics.
In the song, it's used in the line "Un uomo è come il vino, il tempo lo impreziosisce" (A man is like wine, time enriches him). This metaphor beautifully conveys the idea that, like fine wine, a person can become more valuable and refined with age and experience, rather than simply getting older.
UN BEL VIAGGIO is Articolo 31 looking back at a friendship that survived everything.
The verses open in old photographs. Two kids from a poisonous neighbourhood, broke and full of plans, treating a place roofed in cheap asbestos as if it were a mine full of rough diamonds. Baggy clothes, close friends, and a vision they did not need anything to see. What they did not want was the ordinary Italian story their parents had in mind: the steady paycheck, the first girl who sticks around, a home set up too early.
Then they made it, and it turned out to be a job. The middle of the song is honest about what that did to them. Feeling alone keeping the whole thing running, high fives without looking each other in the face, holding a winning team together long after it stopped being fun, until someone finally says enough and walks off with the ball. They admit they wrote the manual on turning a partner into a rival, and on measuring success by how much worse things are going for the other one.
The last verse is the repair. They really did hate each other. One laughed when the other got left. One missed the other's mother's funeral. A good man ages like wine and a bad one just turns sour, they say, so pride can go. They were two idiots who work better as a pair, the kind of friends who care about each other even while they are at war, like brothers.
The chorus carries the whole song. We never wanted to grow up, and then it happened all at once, and you do all the things you swore you never would. You cannot even die young now, because there is a family depending on you. Anxiety and stress, yes. But it is a beautiful trip.
