Quando Io Ho Perso Te Lyrics in English Tiziano Ferro

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Cuba, Germany, Mexico, Puerto Rico

Intense photos of things I won't tell you

Lost photos of tears I've shed

Bandages stained with healed-over blood

This time I block, block, block everything

I seal every memory in concrete

I block it and a tear stumbles

Inside an aborted answer

Look at him a bit better, your son

A heartless piece of sh*t yet rich

But maybe better that than a ruined son

Honest even if they've stripped him of everything

The last taste I have of consolation

You hugging me after history homework

But I didn't get it, didn't get it, couldn't breathe

Lovesick, way too rare

When I lost you

I wasn't even half your age

And I lost you

I looked for myself in the tiny pieces left

Of much too little, of emptiness, of happiness

Stained by the memory the next day

In South America, then Madrid or Argentina

Lost in the soul that was fading

And I told myself

'If I fall in love, it'll be with you

If I fall in love

If I fall in love, it'll be with you

With you, with you'

And tonight I go out, go out and hate it

But I always use the same excuse

I block every memory, yet I don't remember

What the warmth of your hug feels like

Not to mention the buzz, the halfway

F*cking caress, I don't remember

I've erased you watching in silence

The blows I took and that's where I lost you

And the last memory of a 'I love you so much'

Tastes like rough paper, like a diary page

I dreamed it, hoped for it, adored you but

I just wanted to die alone

And when I lost you

I wasn't even half your age

And I lost you

I looked for myself in the tiny pieces left

Of much too little, of emptiness, of happiness

Stained by the memory the next day

In South America, then Madrid or Argentina

Lost in the soul that was fading

And I told myself

'If I fall in love, it'll be with you

If I fall in love

If I fall in love, it'll be with you

Of you, of you, it'll be

Of a dog, a nut, a thief

Of whoever of us talked

Of what there was and maybe by now it'll be

Remote past, found only lately

When I lost you

I wasn't even half your age

And I lost you

In the room most abandoned by God, I told myself

'If I fall in love, it'll be with you

If I fall in love

If I fall in love, it'll be with you

With you, with you'

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ebrezza — intoxication / euphoria

Ebrezza translates to "intoxication" or "euphoria". It's a less common word than its synonyms and carries a more poetic and intense connotation.

In the song, Tiziano Ferro uses it to describe the intense, almost intoxicating feeling of a lover's touch, specifically a "carezza" (caress). He laments not remembering the "ebrezza di mezza cazzo di carezza" (the intoxication of half a damn caress), highlighting the depth of his loss and longing for that powerful sensation.

Quando Io Ho Perso Te feels like leafing through a scrapbook that has been dropped, scattered and then hastily taped back together. Tiziano Ferro jumps from Cuba to Germany to Mexico, flashes Polaroids of blood-stained bandages and long-ago hugs after history homework, and then slams the album shut with the word blocco – I block it all out. These restless images paint the portrait of someone who lost a crucial figure in childhood and has spent every passport stamp, every tear and every half-remembered embrace trying to fill that void.

Yet beneath the whirlwind of cities and memories lies a tender confession: “If I ever fall in love, it will be with you.” The song is an elegy to a love that ended far too soon and a vow to carry that love into every future heartbeat. Ferro’s raw Italian lyrics swing between gritty self-reproach and fragile hope, mirroring the way grief ricochets between anger and longing. By the final chorus, the listener understands that forgetting is impossible, but transforming pain into a compass for new love just might be.

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