FOX TROT 1945

Italian song interpreted by many singers: Natalino Otto, Nicola Arigliano, Gianni Morandi, Gabriella Ferri, Johnny Dorelli, Don Backy

The song tells about the search for a lost love, but it also represents the feelings of existential loss that struck many Italians waking up to their broken country in the aftermath of the Second World War. It was made famous recently by the 2011 electroswing cover by Simona Molinari.

Here is the original, written in 1945, with Italian lyrics and English translation.

In Cerca di Te (Looking for You)

Sola me ne vo per la città
passo tra la folla che non sa
che non vede il mio dolore
cercando te, sognando te, che più non ho.

Ogni viso guardo e non sei tu
ogni voce ascolto non sei tu
Dove sei perduto amore?
Ti rivedrò, ti troverò, ti seguirò.

Io cerco invano di dimenticar
il primo amore non si può scordar
è scritto un nome, un nome solo in fondo al cuor
t'ho conosciuto ed ora so che sei l'amor,
il vero amor, il grande amor.

Lyric Translation: Looking for You

Through these city's streets I walk alone
Slipping through the bustling crowds unknown
None can see my aching pain inside
Searching, longing you were by my side.

Every face I look, but it's not you
Every voice I listen, it's not you
Where are you, the love I knew?
If only I could catch a glimpse of you,

I will find you and I will follow
I'll seek in vain this pain to swallow.
My first love, how could I forget
That name is written, engraved and set

At the bottom of my beating heart
When we touched, I knew that it was love
My one true love, forever my great love.

Art Featured:

Edward Burne-Jones "Sleeping Beauty"
Sofia Carmina Coppola "Maryna Linchuk"
Vincent Van Gogh "Café Terrace at Night"
Bassono Studios "Ninette de Valois"
Sandro Botticelli "Primavera"
John Collier "Lady Godiva"
Dante Gabriel Rossetti "Bea Beatrix"
Michelangelo "Pietà"