Achille Lauro returns with new music. After his summer tour “A Rave Before the Iliade” and before the two event dates “Ragazzi Madre – L'Iliade Live”, his new single “Amore disperato” is released.
The song is a melancholic and acoustic track that Lauro wrote with Federica Abbate and Olly, and it's a desperate love song that sets the backdrop of Rome. The lyrics contain several references to classic Italian cinema.
Lauro presented the song in advance at Suzuki Music Party, the music event conducted by Amadeus, which will air on the Nove channel on September 22nd.
Below is the text and meaning of Achille Lauro's “Amore disperato”.
“Okay, I remember when we wouldn't get up in the morning, and we'd smoke until morning down at Marechiaro. I don't remember how I started, never really started. You never really stop when you start. If freedom is an adolescent error, loving without asking, hating without understanding. What is love? It's not just words. It's a love beyond, a shop on Piazza Sempione.
Now where am I going? Without ma, without se, without you. Desperate love.
You know better than me, you're better than me. I'm not capable. That's a stupid phrase. I'm asking for forgiveness, but you know.
Sometimes it's complicated. It's pointless to defend myself from you.
And if we pass another night, between making love and fighting, what's the difference? We're just me and you.
It's not desire, it's the law of attraction. Life is a photo, a disturbance of attention. And you've been there, you're always like a friend, that small house, that nest. And then, in that shot, an embrace without colors. That song “Sempre e per sempre” by De Gregori. What do others know about living like us? Really, forever and always, wherever we are.
Now where am I going? Without ma, without se, without you. Desperate love.
You know better than me, you're better than me. I'm not capable. That's a stupid phrase. I'm asking for forgiveness, but you know.
Sometimes it's complicated. It's pointless to defend myself from you.
And if we pass another night, between making love and fighting, what's the difference? We're just me and you.
Maybe there's a cure, or maybe not. We need to lose. Maybe not, I won't find you again. You've never asked me. Maybe one day, maybe only one day. A flower to take. That flower, yes, a minute to trample it. Years to grow.
Now where am I going? Without ma, without se, without you. Desperate love.”
The meaning of Achille Lauro's “Amore disperato” is the story of a relationship that goes beyond simple love, transforming into something even deeper and unconditional. It's a reflection on emotions that highlights how fragile a relationship is: small gestures or mistakes can destroy it, making it crumble like a house of cards, despite the effort and commitment to build it.
The song tells the story of an intense, complicated, and full-bodied love through vivid images of nights spent smoking and enjoying freedom between memories of youth and transgression. It's a time when rules seem suspended and life is a sequence of strong and uncontrollable emotions.
The meaning of “Amore disperato” is enriched by references to specific places and moments, such as the “merceria di Piazza Sempione” or the De Gregori song, making it personal and intimate. All the details inserted into the text by Achille Lauro evoke a kind of “film” of the relationship, made up of small moments that are deeply meaningful to him, but incomprehensible to others.
Finally, there is a bitter reflection on time and the fragility of beautiful things. Like a flower that takes years to grow but is only a moment to trample, their relationship seems delicate and always on the verge of breaking.
Achille Lauro will be the protagonist of two unique and unmissable events with the live dates of Ragazzi Madre – L'Iliade Live, which will take place on October 4th at the Unipol Forum in Milan and October 7th at the Palazzo dello Sport in Rome, with the special participation of Boss Doms.
The title of the live events is a reference to Ragazzi Madre: L'Iliade, the film available on Prime Video and released last year, which Lauro rekindles his life and celebrates his first 10 years of career.
Meanwhile, the singer is getting to know the general public better as a judge on the new edition of X Factor. Achille Lauro is part of the new jury along with Manuel Agnelli, Paola Iezzi, and Jake La Furia.