Reginella

Reginella

I loved you
you loved me too
but now we don't love each other anymore
but sometimes distractedly I think of you...
It's one without the moon
without you and without my star
I haven't sung it anymore
your song Reginella...

I told you something stupid
maybe to wrong you
when I shouted that it had lasted too long...
I found my heart in the hospital
half dead
then it got up but remained lame
for life...

You said you were from Naples
but you had never been there
and if we went out you always had on
something a bit revealing...

Even those names I made up
when I said them
it wasn't to call you but to sigh them...
I didn't even buy a cat for you
or a captive bird
a companion of secrets
to imprison them
I made the nets
but not a beautiful cage...

I know Regine'
that you loved me
maybe more than me
and what remains of you
above the bed of our dinners
wasn't much
it was you Regine'...

But why did you give a bit of yourself
to each of the other women
how much of yourself will you give to men
to keep me awake...

Who knows if you really loved me
in the time you loved me
but you stopped loving me one day...
and I set everything on fire with you
but it was extinguished by tears
from the regretful crying
that rained around
my announcement broken
sad widower of you...

You know Regine'
that I loved you
and I never told you
I made a song for you
and at least this belongs to you
like a piece of me...
Regine'... Reginella...

Dance beautiful Regine'
as long as you want to dance
even if your king
can't see you
he will come looking for you in the past
and they say he walks away
dancing at the bottom of the sea
Regine'... Reginella...
Regine'... Reginella...
Regine'... Reginella...