Musica Italiana: “Evidentemente” by Negramaro

As I mentioned in my last post, I want to start a series of posts looking at songs by Italian artists, and this is the first post in the series. The goals are to help people discover these great Italian songs and to help people learn Italian in a fun and entertaining way. I will show a video for the song from Youtube, list the original Italian lyrics, and then provide my quick translation. Fluent Every Year posted on this method, and it reminded me of how I started using this method to learn better Italian and to become more familiar with some great Italian musicians. Hopefully this method will work for you as well!

The first song I want to look at is “Evidentemente” by Negramaro. These guys have become my favorite Italian band, and this is one of my favorite songs off of their 000577 album. Here is the video:

Here are the original lyrics in Italian:

Occhi non ne ho
Per credere
Frasi stupide
Riflettere
Prendi tutto il tempo che io non ho
Evidentemente non ti basterá
Devi dirmelo
Non t’amo piú
Che bisogno c’é
Di insistere?
Prendi tutto il tempo che io non ho
Evidentemente non ti basto
Michelle Michelle, m’ami o no?
Michelle Michelle, m’ami o no?
Occhi non ne ho
Per credere
Frasi stupide
Riflettere
Riflettere
Prendi tutto il tempo che io non ho
Evidentemente non ti basto
Michelle Michelle, m’ami o no?
Michelle Michelle, m’ami o no?
Resto indifferente
Michelle Michelle, m’ami o no?
Michelle Michelle, m’ami o no?
(from LyricsMode, with some edits by me)

And my (rough) translation:

I don’t have eyes
to believe
Stupid phrases (or sentences)
Reflect…
You take all the time I do not have
Evidently it’s not enough for you
You have to tell me
I don’t love you anymore
(Note: to me, this sounds more like “non temo piü” ie I’m not afraid anymore)
What need is there
to insist?
You take all the time I do not have
Evidently I’m not enough for you
Michelle Michelle, do you love me or not?
I don’t have eyes
to believe
Stupid phrases
Reflect…
Reflect…
You take all the time I do not have
Evidently I’m not enough for you
Michelle Michelle, do you love me or not?
I rest, indifferent
Michelle Michelle, do you love me or not?

Let me know if you agree or disagree with the translation. Enjoy!