Schegge literally means "splinters" or "shards," the tiny sharp fragments that fly off when something breaks.
In the line "dalle schegge impazzite che arrivano da tutte le parti" the singer compares life’s sudden hurts to wild, flying shards, creating a vivid and uncommon image. Its dramatic meaning and catchy double-G sound make schegge a memorable word to add to your Italian playlist.
Imagine a kiss so powerful it travels from the darkest night to the brightest morning, from sea level to the roof of the world, and back again in the blink of an eye. That is the heart of “Mantieni Il Bacio”: a poetic plea to hold on to a single, perfect moment of love and let it stretch across time and space. Michele Bravi paints sweeping scenery of storms, silence, and cosmic distance, then zooms in on two lips that refuse to part. The song invites us to feel how that small gesture can become a timeless shelter.
Yet this is more than romance; it is a survival manual. Bravi urges us to protect love from jealousy, gossip, and life’s sudden tempests, because “at the end, every time, it is love that saves us from the wound of the world.” By keeping the kiss alive—never letting even a fragment fall like dust—we silence the background noise and discover a place where pain fades and only tu ed io remain. It is a reminder that when days feel forgettable, guarding genuine connection turns an ordinary second into eternity.
Michele Bravi is an Italian singer-songwriter born on December 19, 1994, in Città di Castello, a small town in Italy's Umbria region.
He first became known in 2013, when he won the seventh season of the Italian version of X Factor at just 18 years old, standing out for his delicate, emotionally raw voice. His coronation single, "La vita e la felicità," written by Tiziano Ferro, went straight to number one in Italy, and his debut album followed in 2014.
Since then Bravi has built a career on intimate, introspective pop, returning several times to the Sanremo Music Festival and writing openly about identity, vulnerability, and mental health. His songs often explore the uneasy relationship between the self and the body it lives in.