8 months ago, I translated this song as a request for the SnowCalmth blog. As sort of a test, I left out 2 phrases to see what the response of Vadim would be. The lyrics of this song are not shared anywhere online.
What I didn’t expect at that time was to get over half a year later a response of my 13-year-old godson with not just the 2 phrases but also with my translation completely redone to a better standard than my own translation. As his mother told me yesterday, Aleksander had been sitting for the past 2 weeks for many hours with a dictionary and headphones on to figure out which Italian words were said. While Aleksander doesn’t speak a word of Italian, he was able to piece it together by sheer determination. I’m over 3 times his age and I can recognize how much of a feat this is. Even if he may be different than others, he gives me hope that the world could be better in the future. So proud of him. It is why here is his final translation.
Information
Artist: Piero Mazzocchetti
Featuring: Dreams Guys
Country: Italy
Copyright: CP and Partners Music/Flender Produzioni
Translated by: Aleksander Dovganyuk-Krym & Alessandro R.
English Subtitled Music Video
Our English translation
If everything around burns,
I can’t stay here motionless
in this inanimate dryness.
Millions are the drops in the sea.
Together they form an immensity.
History is written.
For we are what we do.
No war,
no tears,
where hearts and dreams are free.
No war!
No more tears ever again.
I don’t know how to get used to it,
to certain scenes on TV.
As if they’re now just current events, a normality.
Millions and millions of hands,
a chain of souls.
Millions of voices
that unite and shout over and over:
No war,
no tears,
where hearts and dreams are free.
No war!
We are those drops,
that are able to change the world.
And we don’t need to be heroes.
No war,
no tears,
where hearts and dreams are free.
No war,
no tears,
where hearts and dreams are free.
No war.
No tears.
Italian lyrics transcribed
Se intorno tutto brucia
Io non riesco a stare qui immobile
In questa aridità inanime
Milioni son le gocce nel mare
Formano insieme un’ immensità
La storia si scrive
Perche’ noi siamo quello che facciamo
No war no tears
Dove I cuori e I sogni sono liberi
No war!
Mai più lacrime
Io che non so abituarmi
A certe scene alla tv
Come se ormai fosse solo attualità normalità
Milioni di milioni di mani
Una catena di anime
Milioni di voci
Che si uniscono e gridano ancora e sempre
No war no tears
Dove I cuori e I sogni sono liberi
No war
Noi quella goccia siamo noi
Per cambiare il mondo
Noi e non serve essere eroi
No war no tears
Dove I cuori e I sogni sono liberi
No war no tears
Dove I cuori e I sogni sono liberi
- Piero Mazzocchetti e Dreams Guys – No War (Milioni di Cuori) [Italian to English translation] - March 1, 2023
- SH – #NOWAR [Italian to English translation] - January 19, 2023