"Life Goes On" | |
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Song by Elisa | |
from the album Pearl Days | |
Language | English |
Released | 14 October 2004 |
Genre | Soft rock |
Length | 5:15 |
Songwriter(s) | Elisa Toffoli |
Producer(s) | Glen Ballard |
"Una poesia anche per te" | ||||
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Single by Elisa | ||||
from the album Pearl Days | ||||
Released | 15 April 2005 | |||
Genre | Soft rock | |||
Length | 5:14 | |||
Songwriter(s) | Elisa Toffoli | |||
Producer(s) | Glen Ballard | |||
Elisa singles chronology | ||||
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"Life Goes On" is a song by Italian singer Elisa, included in her album Pearl Days . The Italian version of the song, "Una poesia anche per te", was released on April 15, 2005 as the only single from her fifth studio album Pearl Days .
The song was written and composed by Elisa with production by Glen Ballard, [1] in English with the title "Life Goes On", as part of the first edition of Pearl Days in 2004. In the re-release of the album in 2005, the song was translated into Italian with the title "Una poesia anche per te", (later renamed "Una poesia anche per te (Life Goes On)"). [2]
The change from the English to the Italian version is not a literal translation of the lyrics, despite the fact that the two songs have the same instrumental base and there is a correspondence of some stanzas; the reason lies in the dedication of the Italian version of the song to the singer's grandfather, [3] as she herself recounted in an interview with La Repubblica :"I made the decision following the death of my grandfather two months ago. An incredible man who managed to walk back from Germany after being imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camps, and who always taught us a lot of things. His was always a message of life, and this is what I wanted to represent." [4]
Reviewing the album, Giulio Nannini of Rockol wrote that in the arrangement "well-calibrated harmonic openings dominate within an arrangement that combines electric liveliness and a soft string section" and that one can appreciate "a wide range of vocal colors and timbres". [5]
Chart (2005) | Peak position |
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Italy (FIMI) [6] | 2 |
Chart (2005) | Peak position |
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Italy (FIMI) [7] | 5 |
"Una poesia anche per te" sold 21,000 copies in Italy in 2005. [8]