Paolo Conte is a prominent Italian multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter, whose most famous works often evoke his love and admiration of classical American jazz and swing. His most famous song, and arguably one of the most internationally well-known Italian songs of all time, is “Via Con Me” (translation: “Come Away with Me”), a song about romance and runaway lovers that is at once passionate and harrowingly disenchanted.
Lyrics
Via via
Vieni via di qui
Niente più ti lega a questi luoghi
Neanche questi fiori azzurri
Via via
Neanche questo tempo grigio
Pieno di musiche
E di uomini che ti son piaciuti
It’s wonderful
It’s wonderful
It’s wonderful
Good luck my baby
It’s wonderful
It’s wonderful
It’s wonderful
I dream of you
Cips, cips
Doo doo doo doo doo (ci-boom, ci-boom, boom)
Doo doo doo doo doo (ci-boom, ci-boom, boom)
Doo doo doo doo doo
Via via
Vieni via con me
Entri in questo amore buio
Non perderti per niente al mondo
Via via
Non perderti per niente al mondo
Lo spettacolo d’arte varia
Di uno innamorato di te
It’s wonderful
It’s wonderful
It’s wonderful
Good luck my baby
It’s wonderful
It’s wonderful
It’s wonderful
I dream of you
Cips, cips
Doo doo doo doo doo (ci-boom, ci-boom, boom)
Doo doo doo doo doo (ci-boom, ci-boom, boom)
Doo doo doo doo doo
Via via
Vieni via con me
Entra in questo amore buio
Pieno di uomini
Via
Entra e fatti un bagno caldo
C’è un accappatoio azzurro
Fuori piove, è un mondo freddo
Ah, it’s wonderful
It’s wonderful
It’s wonderful
Good luck my baby
It’s wonderful
It’s wonderful
It’s wonderful
I dream of you
Cips, cips
Doo doo doo doo doo (ci-boom, ci-boom, boom)
Doo doo doo doo doo (ci-boom, ci-boom, boom)
Doo doo doo doo doo