Il Mare Immenso ("The Immense Sea") turns a breakup into an epic, almost cinematic voyage. Giusy Ferreri sings from the perspective of someone lost in the night, trying to read the confusing “one-way signs” of a relationship that has run aground. The lovers’ river of feelings once carried them toward a vast, limitless sea, but now the current has stopped; heartbeats fire “shots of pain” instead of passion, and lightning seems to tear the sky apart.
Yet the song is not just about wreckage. In the second verse the narrator chooses solitude as a lifeboat, “painting memories on the walls” and reclaiming the space that love once occupied. The inner sea she carries can drown her sorrow but also gives her fresh, salty air to breathe again. Ferreri’s lyrics blend vulnerability with quiet strength, reminding us that when a stormy romance ends, the tide eventually shifts and new waves are always on the horizon.