Tu Cosa Fai Questa Sera Lyrics in English by Noemi, Vito Salamanca
Inferno is the Italian word for "hell". It's a powerful and dramatic word that immediately adds emotional weight to the lyrics.
In this song, Noemi sings about the painful push-and-pull of a difficult relationship. She says she would want to stay with her partner "anche se fosse l'inferno" (even if it were hell), powerfully expressing her conflicting desire for a connection she knows is destructive.
Have you ever stayed in a relationship that you knew was a complete disaster from the start? That is exactly the messy dilemma Italian singer Noemi and Vito Salamanca lay out in "Tu Cosa Fai Questa Sera". Right out of the gate, Noemi admits that being together means throwing everything away: "Stare con te è perdere... È perdere tempo" ("Being with you is losing... It's wasting time"). They get stuck in a toxic rhythm of loving each other for sixty seconds just to spend hours fighting ("Amarsi un minuto per odiarsi a lungo"), only realising it was a huge mistake once mid-July rolled around. Yet despite knowing a breakup is long overdue, the chorus spirals into that late-night urge to text an ex: "Tu cosa fai questa sera?" ("What are you doing tonight?").
The lyrics nail that exact tug-of-war where your brain screams one thing and your heart does another. Salamanca drops the contradiction plainly: "Anche se mi manchi spero di non incontrarti / Mai più per una vita intera" ("Even though I miss you, I hope I never run into you ever again for a whole lifetime"). It is dramatically petty, but entirely honest. They trade lines about spinning gossip, cold silences, and smoke-filled sleepless nights where they stand "ai poli opposti" ("at opposite poles"). By the end, they admit it felt nice to play pretend, willingly choosing to stay "anche se fosse l'inferno" ("even if it were hell"). It turns out accepting that "sembrava amore e non era" ("it looked like love and it wasn't") is much easier said than done when the sun goes down.
