Leonard Cohen - Roberto Vecchioni

'è soltanto un albergo a Venezia

È l’albergo di quando mi ami

Quando i figli non c’erano ancora

E io solo baciavo i tuoi seni

Quando i fogli volavano in alto

Quando tutto quel poco era molto

Perché ti amavo

Oh se ti amavo

Quanto ti amavo

E la gente sorride a Venezia

Si ricorda di quando passavi

Coi pensieri che avevano fretta

E le gambe che non le mostravi

E ricorda che c’era anche un uomo

Con due occhi di un altro mattino

Perché ti amava

Oh se ti amava

Quanto di amava

E c'è un vecchio cortile a Venezia

Dove vanno a finire i ricordi

E se hai voglia di quella carezza

Ti ci porto perché sono verdi

Come gli alberi di quella sera

E la luna che c’era e non c’era

Perché mi ami

E non mi ami

Quanto mi ami

Ho imparato che il tempo è bellezza

Ho imparato anche a fare l’amore

Noi due siamo rimasti a Venezia

Siamo quelli di prima e di sempre

Ma è soltanto una scusa Venezia

Ci saremmo capiti ugualmente

Perché ti amo

Oh se ti amo

'is just a hotel in Venice

It is the hotel when you love me

When the children weren't there yet

And I just kissed your breasts

When the papers flew up

When all that little was a lot

Because I loved you

Oh if I loved you

How much I loved you

And people smile in Venice

It remembers when you passed by

With thoughts that were in a hurry

And the legs you didn't show her

And remember that there was also a man

With two eyes from another morning

Because he loved you

Oh if he loved you

How much he loved

And there is an old courtyard in Venice

Where the memories go

And if you feel like that caress

I take you there because they are green

Like the trees of that evening

And the moon that was and was not there

Because you love me

And you don't love me

How much do you love me

I have learned that time is beauty

I also learned to make love

The two of us stayed in Venice

We are the same as before and always

But Venice is only an excuse

We would have understood each other anyway

Because I love you

Oh if I love you