Allora Ciao Lyrics in English Shade

Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Allora Ciao by Shade from Italian to English.
Tonight if I come back to you
I hold you and my heart tightens
I was saving a place for you
I stay standing, I don't look
I stare into the void and I don't talk
I think, you know, it's habit or maybe you need me too
Saying it's fine when everything's bad
If it were a sport I'd be the world champ
One second and I'm off again
I'm a late train
And I know it's not easy to erase an image
Like those memories you don't wanna remember
And we don't get each other, or we get each other wrong
Someone like you, like me, as if
I could really give you what you want
I'd text you but I know you'd end up bored
And you die of boredom and I die of us, of us
Tonight if I come back to you
I hold you and my heart tightens
I was saving a place for you
You leave me and won't leave me alone
You know I don't feel like leaving
And saying bye, so bye
Tonight if I come back to you
I hold you and my heart tightens
I swear I haven't thought about what happened
I was picturing our future like we actually had one
After all, our forever lasted less than nothing
Maybe you're fine with that
Someone like you, like me, as if
I wish I could at least ask, "what're you doing tonight?"
But I don't text you 'cause I already know you'll be asleep
Karma comes back but you never come back, never
Tonight if I come back to you
I hold you and my heart tightens
I was saving a place for you
You leave me and won't leave me alone
You know I don't feel like leaving
And saying bye, so bye
Tonight if I come back to you
I hold you and my heart tightens
Till losing sense, wasting time, losing sense of time
Now that the void you left inside
Is even worse than the one left in the bed
But if you call me give me a moment
Even less, you know I'd be there in zero time
If you ask for the moon I'd pull it from the sky but there's no time left, zero
Tonight if I come back to you
I hold you and my heart tightens
I was saving a place for you
You leave me and won't leave me alone
You know I don't feel like leaving
And saying bye, so bye
Tonight if I come back to you
I hold you and my heart tightens
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Allora Ciao is the soundtrack of that messy moment when your head says “move on” but your heart keeps the door wide open. Shade sings as a lover standing outside the ex’s world, late at night, replaying every memory like a movie on loop. He’s a self-declared “world champion” at pretending everything is fine, yet the second he imagines wrapping his arms around her, his chest tightens. The chorus — built on the bittersweet Italian phrase that means “So, goodbye” — swings between wanting to stay for one more hug and forcing himself to walk away.

The song’s energy is playful, but the lyrics drip with contradictions: keeping a seat for someone who never shows, dreaming of a future that already expired, offering to pluck the moon from the sky even when time is up. Shade captures the tug-of-war of post-breakup limbo, where love, nostalgia, and frustration collide. It’s a catchy reminder that sometimes the hardest word to say isn’t “ciao” — it’s “allora,” the little pause that comes right before goodbye.

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