Destri Lyrics in English Gazzelle

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Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Destri by Gazzelle from Italian to English.

Suddenly you flew away

Leaving behind a little cloud

At least I deserved a lie, I guess

At least the last cigarette

We're two flowers that grew wrong

On the edge of the ring road

In the shade of a hospital

I already told you once, you reminded me of the sea

Christmas lights, slaps on the ass and the same toothbrush

The stick-shift Panda, burning in a night like a cathedral

And it's not my fault

If all this light, light, light doesn't light you up inside my house anymore

And it's not your fault

If all these right hooks, right hooks, right hooks on the wall don't get us back there

Back to those moments

To when everything was smooth sailing

And it made me feel good

That you mixed Roman and English

I already told you once, you reminded me of the sea

My mother's glasses, four in the morning

The shared Winston Blues, faces like zombies

Waking you up while you sleep, like those f*cking mosquitoes

And it's not my fault

If all this light, light, light doesn't light you up inside my house anymore

And it's not your fault

If all these right hooks, right hooks, right hooks on the wall don't get us back there

Back to those moments

And it's not my fault

If all this light, light, light doesn't light you up inside my house anymore

And it's not your fault

If all these right hooks, right hooks, right hooks on the wall don't get us back there

Back to those moments

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SONG MEANING

**“Destri” catapults us into the messy aftermath of a breakup that happened in a blink. One minute the couple is sharing toothbrushes, cheap cigarettes, and late-night road trips in a vintage Panda; the next, she’s “flown away,” leaving only a puff of smoke and a heart full of questions. Gazzelle paints the lovers as “two flowers grown in the wrong place” – fragile yet stubbornly alive on the edge of a busy highway – and sprinkles the memories with vivid snapshots: Christmas lights, slap-happy jokes, mixed-up Roman-English slang, and 4 a.m. zombie faces.

At the song’s core is a realization that sometimes love slips away without a villain. The singer repeats “non è colpa mia / non è colpa tua” (“it’s not my fault / it’s not your fault”), admitting that neither warm household lights nor angry punches at the wall (“destri”) can rewind time to those carefree days when everything was “a gonfie vele” – smooth sailing. Bittersweet, raw, and oddly romantic, “Destri” is a cinematic flashback to the beautiful chaos of a relationship that burned bright, burned fast, and left its mark on the wallpaper and the heart alike.

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Gazzelle Destri Lyrics