The late Luciano Pavarotti left us with a beautiful legacy of songs rivaling the great Enrique Caruso.
This is Rondine al Nido, Return to the Nest. A heart-broken man - triste solo (sad and alone) - watches the sparrows in the primavera (spring) drink-in the air as they fly. Free and liberated their spirits soar with the joy of life. This is their return to the nest.
Only love (solo amore) flies away - se fugida (my Italian is sketchy) and it never returns - torna ni piu. And we can hope in vain (espere in vano), but it never returns.
Then, in an emotional conceit, turning the simile toward his sorrow, he cries...
...Mia picina (my little one) - the love of his life - she has flown away like the sparrow. Never to return again.
For anyone who has lost someone they loved dearly, this stirs deep emotions of loving lost, as longing soars - but of love never to return.
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