Cancellarti Per Sempre Lyrics in English by Francesco Renga

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We're similar

I run and you cross every line

Then you get winded and retrace my steps

Always the same ones

We're skies just deep enough

Not to get lost

But now this sea fills our eyes

So we can't see each other anymore

And deeper, between the soul and the surface, the scar is what's left unsaid

It carves into the heart and digs new wounds

While I just want to erase you forever

Or maybe just for an instant

But you unravel my thoughts

And tie my hands

So you love me

But tomorrow's too late

We're the shivers

Under the skin we keep the heartbeats

Love shoots you in the chest and leaves the hidden scars

And deeper down between the soul and the surface, the scar is the price for happiness

Erasing you forever

Or maybe just for an instant

But you unravel my thoughts

And tie my hands

So you love me

But I'd like to erase you forever

So you no longer feel important

But even though we're distant, we're not far apart

So you love me

And we're stories already read

Among a thousand things left unsaid

We're the love that flows fast

But on two different roads

And we're everything and then nothing

We're the end that writes the beginning and it starts with me

To erase you forever

What's left unsaid carves into the heart

Even though we're distant, we're not far apart

So you love me

But I'd like to erase you forever so you no longer feel important

But you unravel my thoughts and tie my hands

So you love me, but tomorrow's too late

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F. RENGA, T. MAIELLO, SALVATI

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cicatrice — scar

Cicatrice translates to "scar". It's a poignant and evocative word that immediately brings to mind lasting marks left by past experiences.

In the song, Francesco Renga uses "cicatrice" to represent the emotional wounds and unspoken truths that remain deep within a person, affecting their heart and creating new pains. He sings, "tra l'anima e la superficie, la cicatrice quello che non si dice" (between the soul and the surface, the scar is what isn't said), highlighting the hidden impact of these emotional marks.

Francesco Renga sings about two people who know each other too well to stay apart and too well to stay together. "Siamo simili" ("We're similar") opens the song on that closeness — same limits, same steps, same old scars — but by the chorus the only way out he can find is forgetting: "Vorrei solamente cancellarti per sempre" ("I just want to erase you forever").

It never lasts. Two lines later he's back in it: "Ma tu sciogli i pensieri e leghi le mani, allora mi ami" ("But you unravel my thoughts and tie my hands, so you love me") — the whole plan collapses the moment she touches him. The song runs on that loop, wanting her gone and wanting her close in the same breath, and it closes exactly where it started: "Ma è tardi domani" ("But tomorrow's too late").

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