1976 Italy: Al Bano & Romina Power - We'll live it all again (7th place at Eurovision Song Contest)

Описание: Performed by: Al Bano & Romina Power
Music by: Detto Mariano
Lyrics by: Romina Power, Albano Carrisi
Conductor: Maurizio Fabrizio
Language: English & Italian
Placing: 7th (69 points)
Other versions: Italian, French, Spanish, English/Italian/French, English/Spanish

"We'll Live It All Again" was the Italian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1976, performed in Italian and English by Al Bano & Romina Power. Along with 1984's "I treni di Tozeur", 1991's "Comme è ddoce 'o mare" and 2011's "Follia d'amore", this was the country's only ever entry not to be sung entirely in Italian, until their return in 2011. Bano and Power also recorded the song in Spanish and French, entitled "Viviremos todo de nuevo" and "T'aimer encore une fois" respectively. The latter was a chart hit in France. In 1982, they re-recorded "We'll Live It All Again" for their Spanish language album Felicidad, then with new lyrics and retitled "Vivirlo otra vez".

The song is a love duet sung from the perspective of a married couple addressing each other. They recall their first kiss and their early relationship and later sing about their pride at having a daughter together. They tell each other that they would each "live it all again" and if this were the case, "I'd always choose you again".

The song was performed thirteenth on the night (following Spain's Braulio with "Sobran las palabras" and preceding Austria's Waterloo & Robinson with "My Little World)". At the close of voting, it had received 69 points, placing 7th in a field of 18.

It was succeeded as Italian representative at the 1977 Contest by Mia Martini with "Libera". Al Bano and Romina Power returned to the Contest in 1985 with "Magic Oh Magic".

Al Bano and Romina Power are an Italian pop music duo formed in 1975 by then-married couple Albano Carrisi and Romina Power. They were highly successful in Italy and mainland Europe throughout the 1980s and the early 1990s. Their best known international hits include "Felicità", "Sharazan", "Tu, soltanto tu (Mi hai fatto innamorare)", "Ci sarà", "Sempre sempre", and "Libertà!". The duo primarily recorded in Italian but have also released a great number of records in Spanish and French. They participated twice in Eurovision Song Contest to a moderate success and performed five times at Sanremo Music Festival, winning in 1984 with the song "Ci sarà". The couple also shot seven films, based on their songs, between 1967 and 1984. The two separated and divorced in 1999, but reunited professionally in 2013.

Lyrics:

We'll live it all again (lo rivivrei)
I remember your face, when the first time we kissed
How you started to blush, what you said when you touched my hand
And the drives to the beach with the sand on my feet
What we drew on the shore – it's as if it were yesterday

Mi ricordo quei giorni, fino all'alba l'amore
Le tue bambole antiche sorridevano insieme a te
E i tuoi corti vestiti, come prati fioriti
Che, distesi nel vento, mi ridavano la libertà

I'd live it all again, anch'io lo rivivrei
Anch'io lo rivivrei, we'll live it all again

When we had our first babe, how we found her new games
How she smiled when she saw me, and the first time she called you dad
All the good times we had, although some – they were bad
Through the laughter and pain, but the feeling was always there

Mi ricordo quegli anni, quante giuste canzoni
Quante maschere in giro e tu sola vicino a me
Solitudine in due e cent'anni son pochi
Se vivessi di nuovo, io te sempre risceglierei

I'd live it all again, anch'io lo rivivrei
Anch'io lo rivivrei, we'll live it all again

I remember your face, when the first time we kissed
How you started to blush, what you said when you touched my hand
E i tuoi corti vestiti come prati fioriti
Che distesi nel vento mi ridavano la libertà

ENGLISH:

We'll live it all again (I'd live it again)
I remember your face, when the first time we kissed
How you started to blush, what you said when you touched my hand
And the drives to the beach with the sand on my feet
What we drew on the shore – it's as if it were yesterday

I remember those days, love until dawn
Your antique dolls smiled together with you
And your short dresses, like flourishing meadows
That, waving in the wind, gave me back my freedom

I'd live it all again, I'd live it again as well
I'd live it again as well, we'll live it all again

When we had our first babe, how we found her new games
How she smiled when she saw me, and the first time she called you dad
All the good times we had, although some – they were bad
Through the laughter and pain, but the feeling was always there

I remember those years, just how many songs
How many masks around, and only you near me
Loneliness in two and one hundred years are few
If I lived again, I'd always choose you again

I'd live it all again, I'd live it again as well
I'd live it again as well, we'll live it all again

I remember your face, when the first time we kissed