Quando Io Ho Perso Te Lyrics in English Tiziano Ferro

Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Quando Io Ho Perso Te by Tiziano Ferro from Italian to English.
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Cuba, Germany, Mexico, Puerto Rico
Intense photos of things I won't tell you
Lost photos of tears I've shed
Bandages stained with healed-over blood
This time I block, block, block everything
I seal every memory in concrete
I block it and a tear stumbles
Inside an aborted answer
Look at him a bit better, your son
A heartless piece of sh*t yet rich
But maybe better that than a ruined son
Honest even if they've stripped him of everything
The last taste I have of consolation
You hugging me after history homework
But I didn't get it, didn't get it, couldn't breathe
Lovesick, way too rare
When I lost you
I wasn't even half your age
And I lost you
I looked for myself in the tiny pieces left
Of much too little, of emptiness, of happiness
Stained by the memory the next day
In South America, then Madrid or Argentina
Lost in the soul that was fading
And I told myself
'If I fall in love, it'll be with you
If I fall in love
If I fall in love, it'll be with you
With you, with you'
And tonight I go out, go out and hate it
But I always use the same excuse
I block every memory, yet I don't remember
What the warmth of your hug feels like
Not to mention the buzz, the halfway
F*cking caress, I don't remember
I've erased you watching in silence
The blows I took and that's where I lost you
And the last memory of a 'I love you so much'
Tastes like rough paper, like a diary page
I dreamed it, hoped for it, adored you but
I just wanted to die alone
And when I lost you
I wasn't even half your age
And I lost you
I looked for myself in the tiny pieces left
Of much too little, of emptiness, of happiness
Stained by the memory the next day
In South America, then Madrid or Argentina
Lost in the soul that was fading
And I told myself
'If I fall in love, it'll be with you
If I fall in love
If I fall in love, it'll be with you
Of you, of you, it'll be
Of a dog, a nut, a thief
Of whoever of us talked
Of what there was and maybe by now it'll be
Remote past, found only lately
When I lost you
I wasn't even half your age
And I lost you
In the room most abandoned by God, I told myself
'If I fall in love, it'll be with you
If I fall in love
If I fall in love, it'll be with you
With you, with you'
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Quando Io Ho Perso Te feels like leafing through a scrapbook that has been dropped, scattered and then hastily taped back together. Tiziano Ferro jumps from Cuba to Germany to Mexico, flashes Polaroids of blood-stained bandages and long-ago hugs after history homework, and then slams the album shut with the word blocco – I block it all out. These restless images paint the portrait of someone who lost a crucial figure in childhood and has spent every passport stamp, every tear and every half-remembered embrace trying to fill that void.

Yet beneath the whirlwind of cities and memories lies a tender confession: “If I ever fall in love, it will be with you.” The song is an elegy to a love that ended far too soon and a vow to carry that love into every future heartbeat. Ferro’s raw Italian lyrics swing between gritty self-reproach and fragile hope, mirroring the way grief ricochets between anger and longing. By the final chorus, the listener understands that forgetting is impossible, but transforming pain into a compass for new love just might be.

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