ASTRONAUTI Lyrics in English gIANMARIA
Astronauti means "astronauts" in Italian. It's a striking and unique word that immediately sets a cosmic, introspective tone for the song.
In the context of the lyrics, the word is used to describe two people who are together but isolated, much like astronauts in space. They are
"Astronauti" uses space as a metaphor for a relationship that has drifted apart. The narrator describes floating alone, short of air, in a room stripped of anything alive - no rain, no warmth, nothing left.
He admits that choosing his career over the relationship left him isolated long before the breakup, and that he might have been better off without her.
The chorus imagines two astronauts locked in a dying capsule, each having to choose who survives and who is left behind. It's a dramatic way of saying that staying together the way they are means one of them has to give something up.
The final verses look back at the relationship itself: two people forced together, unsure if any of it was real, who never really let anyone else in. The song ends on the same impossible choice repeated - choose him, choose her - with no easy answer.
