Tiziano International

An English-language blog dedicated to Tiziano Ferro.

“Troppo Buono” from the album L’amore è Una Cosa Semplice

Tiziano is the master of putting emotions into words, and this song is like the ultimate breakup song. And he wrote it after just a short fling! I’d hate to imagine what he’d conjure up after a real breakup! Actually, no, I would love, LOVE to hear it.

Wait, no, I don’t want him to go through to that! Just be happy forever, Tiziano.

Of course, a lot of the anger in this song was inspired by other things as well. He talks about it in the following diary entry from his latest book. As usual, the translation of the song is at the end of the post.

December 3rd 2010

I head towards the new year with too much curiosity to see what will happen. I’m sick, sick of everyone, enough surrogates for interesting people, human intersections gone bad, unsuccessful experiments to create a personality, amorphous hybrids… everyone go home. So, no Christmas present for a future ex and instead a lot of frivolity and a healthy lack of thought.

Lately I like to think of the new album and only that. Really, he didn’t disappoint me, just thinking about it is enough to move me.

I adore this improvised life of an unemployed artist and writer, this life that takes me wherever it wants. For example, on Sunday I go to Porto with Antonella and one of her friends, just like that.

I need to plant better seeds, and the good ones require calmness.

Therefore I devote myself to something I know how to do: dissipating the forces that are eating me up inside, in the four minutes of a song.

A song with which I want to smother the foul monster that threatens me, a song full of resentment towards those who have stomped on my fragility while being fully aware of what they were doing. So, rancor in a song… for the first time.

It’s called, paradoxically, Troppo Buono.

English translation of “Troppo Buono”:

“Too Good”

Half of a lie doesn’t make the truth
So in spite of it all I can’t love you anymore
And I was making a fool of myself
You had your whole life ahead of you, I knew that
 
Half of what I think, it wasn’t just my own choice
Because believing that I love you does not suffice
Even when holding each other tightly
Or talking about it and denying it
 
You’ll look back again on all the good that I and only I have given you
You’ll look back again on how what for you was nothing, was everything to me
And I’ve forever lost a bit of myself
And you know that I’ve been too good
But that I’m tired by now and I can’t do it anymore
 
I’ve made so many mistakes, I too know that well
But I’ve never come to feel so very useless
And in adverse times I saved your life on many occasions
You didn’t notice
 
You’ll look back again on all the good that I and only I have given you
You’ll look back again on how what for you was nothing, was everything to me
And I’ve forever lost a bit of myself
And you know that I’ve been too good
But that I’m tired by now and I can’t do it anymore
 
It’s true it’s difficult to hate you
No one in the world can deny it
Let alone me, today
It’s true it’s difficult to love me
Neither I nor you have managed it
Me all along, you not at all
 
You’ll look back again on all the good that I and only I have given you
You’ll look back again on how what for you was nothing, was everything to me
And I’ve forever lost a bit of myself
And you know that I’ve been too good
But that I’m tired by now and I can’t do it anymore

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