La Mia Terra Lyrics in English Diodato

Below, I translated the lyrics of the song La Mia Terra by Diodato from Italian to English.
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Rain
Rain falling
Rain falling and beating on my face
Rain falling without warning
It wakes me from the dream
Rain falling from a clear sky
In these tears under a clear sky
There's a fate already written
I've found my land
Land
On this land
For this land we'll wage war
And this land won't have peace except in war
Land of fires and sea
Land of blood and salt
Red with ore
Between sirocco and mistral
And yet my love
It has never broken
This enchanted dream
That keeps us bound with all our love to the land
We didn't defend
And now it's a minefield
Where beautiful flowers grow
War
War smoke
War smoke that colors the sky
Smoke that killed my calm heart
But it's ever darker
Smoke that eats the future
That I try to ward off with every breath
It clings to the drums
On a war rhythm
And yet my love
It has never broken
This enchanted dream
That keeps us bound with all our love to the land
We didn't defend
And now it's a minefield
Where beautiful flowers grow
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SONG MEANING

Picture this: you are basking under a flawless Italian sky when a sudden shower bursts from nowhere, splashing your face and snapping you awake. That surprise downpour is the opening scene of Diodato’s “La Mia Terra,” a song that turns weather into metaphor. The rain becomes tears, the clouds morph into smoke, and before you know it, the peaceful vista has shifted into a battleground. With vivid images of fuochi (fires), salt-stained seas, and winds that whip from every direction, Diodato paints his homeland as both enchanting and wounded ‑ a place so beautiful it hurts.

Yet beneath the storms and war drums lies an unbreakable thread of hope. The singer clings to a “sogno fatato” – a fairytale dream that keeps him and his love tied to the very soil they once failed to protect. Even when that soil turns into a minefield, it still nurtures “fiori bellissimi,” proof that life and beauty can sprout from devastation. In short, “La Mia Terra” is a passionate love letter and a wake-up call at the same time: cherish your land, fight for it if you must, because even in its darkest hour it is capable of breathtaking rebirth.

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