Inverno: Translations in English and Lyrics - Franco Battiato

The fog rises over the white meadows
Like a cypress in the cemetery
A bell tower that doesn't seem real
Marks the boundary between the earth and the sky

But you who go, but you stay
You will see the snow will go away tomorrow
Past joys will blossom again
With the warm wind of another summer

Even the light seems to die
In the uncertain shadow of a becoming
Where even dawn becomes evening
And the faces look like wax skulls

But you who go, but you stay
Even the snow will die tomorrow
Love will still pass us by
In the hawthorn season

The tired earth under the snow
It sleeps the silence of a heavy sleep
Winter gathers its fatigue
A thousand centuries, from an ancient dawn

What are you, why are you staying?
Another winter will come back tomorrow
More snow will fall to console the fields
More snow will fall on the graveyards