Paroles et traduction Eugenio Bennato - Io te cerco scusa

Io te cerco scusa

Io te cerco scusa ′e chello c'aggio fatto
Pecché nun sapevo pecché ero distratto
Scusa ′ e tutto o mmale ca tu aviste allora
Scusa pure si io nunn'ero nato ancora

Scusa 'e chillu munno ca s′è perduto
Addò tu currive comm′a na criatura
Sott'a luce d′o sole senza stanchezza
Sott'a luce d′e stelle senza paura

Scusa 'e chillu suonno de marenaro
Ca pe′ primmo ascette da Gibilterra
Pe' tenta' la sorte e asci′ pe′ mare
Pe' guarda′ luntano e scupri' na terra

Scusa ′e chella scienza che navigava
Sempre cchiù luntano fino a chella terra
Pecché nun sapeva che ce truvava
Pecché nun sapeva che purtava a guerra

Ma tutt'a furtuna de Francia e Spagna
Nunn′è niente a ffronte 'e chella bellezza
E nun po' bastare pe′ riscattarla
Tutto l′oro d'o munno, tutt′a ricchezza

E cu Nina, Pinta e Santa Maria
Arrivava o viento d'a civiltà
Ca purtava a pace e a libertà
E io te cerco scusa ′e chella bugia

Chesta nun sarrà na canzone d'ammore
Pecché na carezza nun c′è mai stata
Però certamente ce trase o core
Pecché è na canzone de 'nnammurato

'Nnammurato ′e na favola luntana
′E 'na donna ca nun ha cunusciuto
′Nnammurato 'e chella bellezza indiana
C′appartene a nu munno ca s'è perdut

Io te cerco scusa ′e chello c'aggio fatto
Pecché nun sapevo pecché ero distratto
Scusa ' e tutto o mmale ca tu aviste allora
Scusa pure si io nunn′ero nato ancora

I seek your forgiveness

I seek your forgiveness for what I have done
Because I did not know why I was distracted
I apologize for all the wrong that you have suffered
I apologize even though I was not yet born

I apologize for that world that has been lost
Where you lived like an animal
Under the sunlight without weariness
Under the starlight without fear

I apologize for that sailor's dream
Who first embarked from Gibraltar
To tempt fate and put to sea
To look far away and discover a land

I apologize for that science that sailed
Ever further until that land
Because it did not know what would be there
Because it did not know that it would bring war

But all the wealth of France and Spain
Is nothing compared to its beauty
And cannot suffice to pay for it
All the gold in the world, all the riches

And with Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria
Came the wind of civilization
That brought peace and freedom
And I seek your forgiveness for that lie

This will not be a love song
Because there has never been a caress
But surely my heart is in it
Because it is a lover's song

In love with a distant fable
With a woman that I have never known
In love with that Indian beauty
Who belongs to a world that is gone

I seek your forgiveness for what I have done
Because I did not know why I was distracted
I apologize for all the wrong that you have suffered
I apologize even though I was not yet born