| Passo a rallentatore questa nostra soria d’amore | I traverse, as through honeyed dusk, the slow decay of our love’s chronicle, |
| Piango e resto senza fiato | I weep, breath drawn thin as frost on glass, |
| Dove ho sbagliato… dove ho sbagliato | Where did my hand falter… where did my hand falter |
| Passo a rallentatore questa nostra soria d’amore | I traverse, as through honeyed dusk, the slow decay of our love’s chronicle, |
| Piango e resto senza fiato | I weep, breath drawn thin as frost on glass, |
| Dove ho sbagliato… dove ho sbagliato | Where did my hand falter… where did my hand falter |
| Faccio mente locale | I summon phantoms of memory to the hearth, |
| Se ti ho fatto mai del male | Did I ever, with careless word, leave you wounded? |
| Se le ali ti ho mai tappato | Did I, in my folly, ever bind your wings with leaden thread? |
| Dove ho sbagliato… dove ho sbagliato | Where did my hand falter… where did my hand falter |
| Ti facevo stirare, ti facevo lavare | I set you to the yoke of iron and water, |
| Dico ti ho mai vietato di fare un bucato | Yet tell me, did I ever bar you from the river of linen? |
| Dove ho sbagliato… dove ho sbagliato | Where did my hand falter… where did my hand falter |
| Era tua la letizia di gettar l’immondizia | Was it your secret delight to cast waste into the abyssal night, |
| Tua è l’immensa emozione fare il cambio stagione | Yours the shivering rapture of the season’s turning, wardrobe reborn, |
| Che senso avrà questo sole al tramonto | What meaning broods in this sun’s crimson descent, |
| Se torno a casa e non trovo pronto | If I return to a house grown cold, the table bare as winter branches, |
| Che senso avrà la rugiada al mattino | What meaning lies in dawn’s trembling dew, |
| Senza mutande dentro al comodino | With the drawer’s silence – your underthings gone, |
| Che senso avrà quella mia lavatrice | What purpose lingers in the old drum’s patient churning, |
| Senza di lei che ritira le robbe | With no one to gather the garments, |
| E le stende felice | And peg them to the wind with a smile like spring rain |
| Forse ho sbagliato a comprartelo il Bimby | Perhaps my error: gifting you that silver Bimby, |
| Eri gelosa ho capito mia bamby | Jealousy flickered in your gaze, my childlike Bamby, I saw, |
| Forse ti ha offeso la lavastoviglie | Perhaps the dishwasher’s hum bruised your pride, |
| Tu con le mani fai più meraviglie | For in your hands, miracles outshone machinery |
| Forse ho sbagliato se non ti ho mai detto | Perhaps my failing was silence, never confessing |
| Che per me c’era un unico oggetto | That for me the world held but one cherished token, |
| E quello eri te. te…te | And it was you. you…you |