Paolo Conte
Miscellaneous
You have always known the art of making me happy
a talent, an art is natural to you...
and you always say the truest things at the right moment
you possess gestures and words, and an art...
I close my eyes and think that perhaps it is nothing but a theatrical fiction
and I feel bitter and silent disbelief
of every general audience,
but how many times are they there to watch enthralled
what happens on stage,
art, what art!
So I'm always happy, but always with that fear
I live my day suspended by a thread
and lights and shadows pass by
and flashes of gaze and smiles
and your inhuman light.
But when perhaps out of love - or who knows -
you manage to forget your part
and with human naivety you accept me
and the body shines and is exalted
my applause will always come
on time to give thanks to that art,
´art of lovingâ¦

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