A Parlare Da Zero Lyrics in English Tiziano Ferro

Below, I translated the lyrics of the song A Parlare Da Zero by Tiziano Ferro from Italian to English.
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I apologize to everybody who's absent
But I don't care about you anymore
Since the tide erased
my drawings on a rock
facing my sea
when I was a kid
in front of a tear
when I didn't understand myself
And they're not wounds
It's a laughing slice of moon
about this birthday in February
about what I already knew
I'm counting failed caresses
so that huge wounds can close
And I ask God every day
to show me
even just one tiny story
So I close my eyes and then I see
the chapters of an ancient book
and I don't know who I am anymore, I don't know the words
but you teach me to really count
and to speak from zero
I still hadn't learned to run at your age
but when my dad looked at me proud
I smiled like you do with me
I'm counting failed caresses
so that huge wounds can close
And I ask God every day
to show me
even just one tiny story
So I close my eyes and then I see
the chapters of an ancient book
and I don't know who I am anymore, I don't know the words
but you teach me to really count
and to talk
as if all the fears
showed up to celebrate
my boldest agony
that I was dying but nobody dies here
until it's over
I'm counting failed caresses
so that huge wounds can close
And I ask God every day
to show me
even just one tiny story
So I close my eyes and then I see
the chapters of an ancient book
and I don't know who I am anymore, I don't know the words
but you teach me to really count
and to speak from zero
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SONG MEANING

“A Parlare Da Zero” feels like opening an old photo album that smells of salt water. Tiziano Ferro takes us back to the seaside of his childhood, where waves once erased the drawings he sketched on the rocks. Those vanished doodles become a symbol of the big and small disappointments that life eventually sweeps away. Over gentle piano chords, he apologizes to the people who are no longer part of his story, counts the “failed caresses” that never healed his wounds, and begs the universe for even the tiniest tale that can give him fresh hope.

The secret to that fresh start arrives in the shape of a child – his own. While the singer confesses that he no longer remembers who he is or the right words to say, his son teaches him how to “count for real” and “speak from zero.” Fatherhood becomes a powerful reset button: fears line up like party guests, sorrow shows it is survivable, and a brand-new language of love is learned one syllable at a time. In short, the song is a tender reminder that letting go of old pain and beginning again is possible when we see the world through a child’s wide-open eyes.

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