Se Bruciasse La Città Lyrics in English Massimo Ranieri

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Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Se Bruciasse La Città by Massimo Ranieri from Italian to English.

My heart never sleeps

It knows you're someone else's now

Your mother keeps saying that

In May you'll marry a man

But if deep inside your heart

There's a boy, it's me

But who said it, and why

I mustn't think of you anymore

Nobody knows who I am

But the first kiss was mine

I go crazy without you

And every night I see you again next to me

If the city was burning

To you, to you, to you I'd run

I'd beat the fire too

To see you again

If the city was burning

I know, I know, you'd look for me

Even after our goodbye

I'm the love for you

My heart never sleeps

To imagine you beside me

This city never burns

There's still a man with you

But if deep inside your heart

There's a boy, it's me

That meadow on the outskirts

Has seen you mine so many times

It's been too long it hasn't known

Where my happiness is

I go crazy without you

And every night I see you again next to me

If the city was burning

To you, to you, to you I'd run

I'd beat the fire too

To see you again

If the city was burning

I know, I know, you'd look for me

Even after our goodbye

I'm the love

For you, for you

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SONG MEANING

Se Bruciasse La Città paints the picture of a restless young man who cannot accept that the girl he loves is about to marry someone else. Wide awake while the city sleeps, he reminds her (and himself) that their first kiss, their secret meetings on a grassy suburb, and their shared dreams are still burning inside him. His love is so fierce that he imagines a spectacular scene: if the whole city were in flames, he would sprint straight through the fire just to see her again, convinced that she would instinctively run to him too.

Massimo Ranieri turns this heartbreak into an anthem of bold, cinematic devotion. The lyrics mix raw jealousy, tender nostalgia, and unbreakable hope, capturing that classic Italian passion where love feels larger than life. Even though another man now stands by her side, the singer proclaims that he is — and will always be — the true embodiment of love for her. It is a dramatic, bittersweet promise that no distance, wedding ring, or even a burning city could ever extinguish.

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Massimo Ranieri Se Bruciasse La Città Lyrics