Addio Mio Amore Lyrics in English Tiziano Ferro

Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Addio Mio Amore by Tiziano Ferro from Italian to English.
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You looked in the mirror with others' eyes
To forget how beautiful you were
While you skimmed over life, over problems
You were so beautiful to my eyes of yesterday
So now sixteen years feel like nothing
While I stay down here defeated
I look up at the sky and they show the best images
Of the times when lately I've rarely won
And we walk, we walk
With darkness inside and heart on our face
That if they stare into our eyes
There's nobody, there's no trace
Of life the way it was
And I haven't counted the days for a month
Because forever my job
Is to celebrate waiting
Goodbye my love
How long since we saw each other?
Goodbye my love
From which side do you see
That shard in the soul
That arrow in the heart
That I try to rip out every day
While I distract the world with a smile, but
Goodbye my love
Here we die
Goodbye my love
Goodbye
I didn't want you
And I don't want myself
Love, goodbye, goodbye
I've always asked myself, my love
And I still ask you but I hide
It was 1980, for what f*cking reason, God
Why did you put me in the world?
Gravel then concrete, the path
I dreamed another whole day
That life was something else, we laughed, we desired
But I wasn't there
And we walk, we walk
With the sun off and fire in my face
That if I answered you now
With my love as a threat
Nothing of you would remain
Maybe two tears, then dust
And then the most ruthless void
That until now I've endured
Goodbye my love
How long since we saw each other?
Goodbye my love
From which side do you see
That shard in the soul
That arrow in the heart
That I try to rip out every day
While I distract the world with a smile, but
Goodbye my love
Here we die
Goodbye my love
Goodbye
I didn't want you
And I don't want myself
Love, goodbye, goodbye
You were born from pain that time will stop
And fears are born but we'll survive
And love, love, love that's waiting for you
Because the eternal isn't in a hurry
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye
Goodbye my love
How long since we saw each other?
Goodbye my love
From which side do you see
That shard in the soul
That arrow in the heart
That I try to rip out every day
While I distract the world with a smile, but
Goodbye my love
Here we die
Goodbye my love
Goodbye
I didn't want you
And I don't want myself
Love, goodbye, goodbye
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SONG MEANING

Addio Mio Amore feels like reading the pages of a secret diary while a powerful ballad plays in the background. In the verses, Tiziano Ferro watches a past lover who once “looked in the mirror with other people’s eyes” and forgot her own beauty. He stacks vivid images—sixteen-year-old memories, shattered smiles, a skyline of lost battles—to show how love, time, and self-doubt wrap around each other. The repeated goodbye is not only to a partner but also to the pieces of himself that never felt worthy, a farewell screamed into the night sky even while he keeps the world distracted with a grin.

Despite the raw heartbreak, the song is never hopeless. Beneath the grief are sparks of resilience: “Love, love, love that waits” and the belief that “the eternal is in no hurry.” Ferro’s lyrics remind learners that Italian pop can dive deep into existential questions—Why were we born? Can pain ever pause time?—yet still rise with a chorus that sticks in your head. “Addio Mio Amore” is both a tear-stained goodbye letter and a promise that new mornings eventually arrive, making it a perfect track for practicing reflective vocabulary and passionate pronunciation.

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