Gipsy Kings - Volare (English translation)

Gipsy Kings – Volare

English translation

English

Translation

To Fly

I think that a dream like that will never return

And it painted my face and my hands in blue,

And suddenly I was swept up by the wind

And made me fly in the endless sky.

To fly, oh, oh,

To sing, oh, oh,

In the blue, painted in blue

Happy to be up there

And happily flying I find myself higher

Higher, higher than the sun

And all the while the world slowly gets far from me,

A sweet music has played only for me

To fly, oh, oh,

To sing, oh, oh,

In the blue, painted in blue

Happy to be up there

I think that a dream like that will never return

And it painted my face and my hands in blue,

And suddenly I was swept up by the wind

And made me fly in the endless sky.

To fly, oh, oh,

To sing, oh, oh,

In the blue, painted in blue

Happy to be up there

To fly, oh, oh,

To sing, oh, oh,

In the blue, painted in blue

Happy to be up there

I think that a dream like that will never return

And it painted my face and my hands in blue,

And suddenly I was swept up by the wind

And made me fly in the endless sky.

To fly, oh, oh,

To sing, oh, oh,

In the blue, painted in blue

Happy to be up there

To fly, oh, oh,

To sing, oh, oh,

In the blue, painted in blue

Happy to be up there

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Aquiles Castro Parejo on 2024-01-16

Author's comments:

The song is a cover of Domenico Modugno's 1958 song 'Nel blu, di pinto di blu', which was known popularly as 'Volare'.
Mondugno's original song was part of the 1958 Eurovision Song Contest as Italy's submission, placing third. Albeit France won with André Claveau's song 'Dors Mon Amour', 'Volare' ended up becoming considerably more popular, generating multiple covers for decades on end, including this one by Gipsy Kings.
Gipsy Kings' version of the song lacks the two latter stanzas of Modugno's original.
The expression "Volare" does not have the Spanish connotation, as it's from the original Italian. "Volare" is not a word in Spanish, though it shares the same root with the word "volaré" (I will fly), but in turn the word as used in the song does not have the tilde in the "e".