Mahmood & Blanco – Brividi – Lyrics & English Translation (Eurovision 2022)

At the 2022 edition of the Sanremo Music Festival, Mahmood and Blanco captured the hearts of the audience with Brividi (Chills), a powerful ballad about a dying love between two people of an unspecified gender. Having won Sanremo, the song was automatically selected as the Italian entry for Eurovision 2022 in Turin.

Below you can watch their performance on YouTube, follow along with the Italian lyrics and, if you are in doubt about the meaning, check out the English translation at the end of the article.


Mahmood & Blanco – Brividi – Listen on YouTube


Mahmood & Blanco – Brividi – Italian Lyrics

Ho sognato di volare con te
Su una bici di diamanti.
Mi hai detto sei cambiato,
Non vedo più la luce nei tuoi occhi

La tua paura cos’è?
Un mare dove non tocchi mai
Anche se il sesso non è
La via di fuga dal fondo

Dai, non scappare da qui
Non lasciarmi così
Nudo con i brividi
A volte non so esprimermi

E ti vorrei amare, ma sbaglio sempre
E ti vorrei rubare un cielo di perle
E pagherei per andar via,
Accetterei anche una bugia

E ti vorrei amare ma sbaglio sempre
E mi vengono i brividi, brividi, brividi

Tu, che mi svegli il mattino
Tu, che sporchi il letto di vino
Tu, che mi mordi la pelle
Con i tuoi occhi da vipera

E tu, sei il contrario di un angelo
E tu, sei come un pugile all’angolo
E tu scappi da qui, mi lasci così

Nudo con i brividi
A volte non so esprimermi

E ti vorrei amare, ma sbaglio sempre
E ti vorrei rubare un cielo di perle
E pagherei per andar via,
Accetterei anche una bugia

E ti vorrei amare ma sbaglio sempre
E mi vengono i brividi, brividi, brividi

Dimmi che non ho ragione,
Vivo dentro una prigione,
Provo a restarti vicino
Ma scusa se poi mando tutto a puttane

Non so dirti ciò che provo, è un mio limite
Per un ti amo ho mischiato droghe e lacrime
Questo veleno che ci sputiamo ogni giorno
Io non lo voglio più addosso

Lo vedi, sono qui,
Su una bici di diamanti, uno fra tanti
Nudo con i brividi
A volte non so esprimermi

E ti vorrei amare, ma sbaglio sempre
E ti vorrei rubare un cielo di perle
E pagherei per andar via
Accetterei anche una bugia

E ti vorrei amare, ma sbaglio sempre
E mi vengono i brividi, brividi, brividi


Mahmood & Blanco – Brividi – English Translation

I dreamed of flying with you
On a diamond bike.
You told me you changed,
I no longer see the light in your eyes

What is your fear?
A sea where you never touch
Even if sex isn’t
The escape route from the bottom

Come on, don’t run away from here
Don’t leave me like this
Naked and shivering
Sometimes I don’t know how to express myself

And I would like to love you, but I’m always wrong
And I’d like to steal a pearl sky from you
And I would pay to leave,
I would also accept a lie

And I would like to love you but I’m always wrong
And I get chills, chills, chills

You, who wake me up in the morning
You, who soil the bed with wine
You, who bite my skin
With your viper eyes

And you, you are the opposite of an angel
And you, you are like a boxer in the corner
And you run away from here, you leave me like this

Naked and shivering
Sometimes I don’t know how to express myself

And I would like to love you, but I’m always wrong
And I’d like to steal a pearl sky from you
And I would pay to leave,
I would also accept a lie

And I would like to love you but I’m always wrong
And I get chills, chills, chills

Tell me I’m not right
I live inside a prison,
I try to stay close to you
But sorry if I screw everything up

I can’t tell you what I feel, it’s my limit
For an “I love you” I mixed drugs and tears
This poison that we spit on each other every day
I don’t want it on me anymore

You see it, I’m here,
On a diamond bike, one among many
Naked and shivering
Sometimes I don’t know how to express myself

And I would like to love you, but I’m always wrong
And I’d like to steal a pearl sky from you
And I would pay to leave,
I would also accept a lie

And I would like to love you but I’m always wrong
And I get chills, chills, chills


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