Viceversa Lyrics in English Francesco Gabbani

Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Viceversa by Francesco Gabbani from Italian to English.
You don't say it and I don't see it
Is love blind or are we sideways?
A squabble born on a bed
A universal flood
A verdict under the roof
Up with a little down
Silence broken for something big
Simple yet complex
Open books balancing between secrets and compromises
Easy chances for hard concepts
Purest souls in dirtiest flaws
Fragile mixes between reason and emotions
Solitudes and sharing
But if we had to explain
In just a few words
The complex mechanism
That rules the harmony of our love
It'd be enough just to say
Without thinking too hard
That it's you who makes me feel good when I'm hurting, and vice versa
That it's you who makes me feel good when I'm hurting, and vice versa
And having said that, what’s left for us
After a lifetime at the center of the party?
Leads and number ones
Envied by everyone and indispensable to nobody
A mother who says about the father
"I just wanted to achieve
My ideal, an ordinary life"
But love hasn't got anything normal, not even the words
They talk about peace and make revolution
Dictators in the head and partisans in the heart
There's no solution except acceptance
Of abandoning ourselves to emotion
But if we had to explain
In just a few words
The complex mechanism
That rules the harmony of our love
It'd be enough just to say
Without thinking too hard
That it's you who makes me feel good when I'm hurting, and vice versa
That it's you who makes me feel good when I'm hurting, and vice versa
It's the fear behind arrogance
It's the whole universe stuck in a room
It's abundance inside lack
I love you, that's all
It's habit inside surprise
It's a victory right before surrender
It's simply everything we lack and look for
To be able to tell you I love you
But if we had to explain
In just a few words
The complex mechanism
That rules the harmony of our love
It'd be enough just to say
Without thinking too hard
That it's you who makes me feel good when I'm hurting, and vice versa
That it's you who makes me feel good when I'm hurting, and vice versa
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Francesco Gabbani, Luigi De Crescenzo
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SONG MEANING

Francesco Gabbani turns love into a playful puzzle in “Viceversa.” The lyrics juggle contrasts: up with a bit of down, fragile yet strong, dictators in the head and partisans in the heart. Gabbani sings that a relationship is an ever-shifting balance between reason and emotion, solitude and togetherness, abundance and lack. Even when two people argue or feel lost, they remain “books left open,” accepting each other’s bright pages and ink blots alike.

At the song’s core lies a simple revelation: “You make me feel good when I feel bad, and vice versa.” All the philosophical questions, family expectations, and inner revolutions shrink to that one line. “Viceversa” reminds us that love does not need grand explanations; it thrives in mutual care, in letting contradictions coexist, and in choosing, again and again, to be the reason the other person smiles when life gets rough.

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