Eppure Soffia Lyrics in English Luca Carboni

Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Eppure Soffia by Luca Carboni from Italian to English.
And the water fills with foam
The sky fills with smoke
The chemical leprosy destroys
Life in the rivers
Birds that barely fly
Sick to death
Cold interest in life
Has barred the doors
A whole island has found
A grave in the sea
Fake progress wanted
To test a bomb
Then rain that quenches thirst
For the living earth
Instead brings it death
Because it's radioactive
Yet the wind still blows
It sprays water on the ships' prows
And whispers songs
Among the leaves it kisses the flowers
It kisses them and doesn't pick them
One day money discovered
World war
It gave its putrid mark
To the beastly instinct
It killed, burned, destroyed
In a sad rosary
And the whole earth wrapped itself
In a black shroud
And soon the hidden key
To new secrets
They'll cover with mud
Even the planets
They'll want to pollute the stars
The war between suns
Crimes against life
They call them mistakes
Yet the wind still blows
It sprays water on the ships' prows
And whispers songs
Among the leaves it kisses the flowers
It kisses them and doesn't pick them
Yet it brushes the countryside
Caresses the mountains on their sides
And tousles the women
Through their hair and races in flight with the birds
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SONG MEANING

“Eppure Soffia” paints a vivid, almost cinematic portrait of a planet under siege by human greed: polluted rivers bubble with chemical foam, radioactive rain poisons the soil, and war turns entire islands into watery graves. Luca Carboni lists these disasters like scenes in an ecological thriller, showing how the cold pursuit of money and “false progress” can scorch, choke, and even nuke the very world that keeps us alive.

Yet—against all odds—the chorus bursts in with a refreshing gust of hope. The wind still blows, playfully spraying water over ship prows, whispering songs through the leaves, and tussling women’s hair as it races birds across the sky. This persistent breeze becomes a symbol of nature’s resilience, reminding us that life will keep trying to bloom, no matter how many toxic scars we carve into the Earth. The song is both a warning and a wink from Mother Nature, urging us to protect her before the last breeze stops blowing.

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