Serenella

Like perfumes, what a skirt,
how beautiful you are,
what legs, what steps
on the asphalt of Rome.
Serenella,
in this sea breeze, of pines,
in our year
between the war and the year two thousand.
From the conservatory to the university,
the bicycle doesn't work,
and you waiting for me
with your hair down
and I will caress them
sitting at our café.

Serenella,
the radio will broadcast
the song I thought for you,
and maybe it will cross
the ocean far from us.
The Americans will listen to it
who just left yesterday,
and with their flowered shirts
they color our streets
and our spring days
that smell of your hair
and your eyes so beautiful,
wide open to the future
and closed on me.
In nineteen fifty.
In nineteen fifty.

Love, how good we are in the sun,
love, from this year you will be with me.
This year is round,
it's like a ball that I throw straight,
and what a nice effect on my heart.
Serenella,
with money, ties and flowery clothes
and a Vespa to ride together by the sea.
To the sea of this city,
to the waves, to the splashes
that come out of our fountains,
and if there's a bit of wind
you will get wet
while waiting for me
at our café.

Serenella,
the radio will broadcast
this song I thought for you,
and maybe it will cross
the ocean far from us.
The Americans will listen to it
who just left yesterday,
and with their flowered shirts
that color our streets
and our spring days
that smell of your hair
and your eyes so beautiful,
wide open to the future
and closed on me.
In nineteen fifty.

And I love you, I love you strongly in the sun,
this sun that seems close.
Serenella, I want a child
in our spring days.
We will think of it as a song.
Serenella, I take you to the sun.
Serenella, I take you to the sea.
The radio will broadcast
this song I thought for you,
and maybe it will cross
the ocean far from us.
The Americans will listen to it,
who just left yesterday.
Oh Serenella, I take you to the sea.
I take you away.

The Americans will listen to it,
who just left today.
Oh Serenella, I take you to the sea.
I take you away.