"Life Goes On"
Song by Elisa
from the album Pearl Days
LanguageEnglish
Released14 October 2004 (2004-10-14)
GenrePop rock
Length5:15
Songwriter(s)Elisa Toffoli
Producer(s)Glen Ballard
"Una poesia anche per te"
Single by Elisa
from the album Pearl Days
Released15 April 2005 (2005-04-15)
Length5:14
Songwriter(s)Elisa Toffoli
Producer(s)Glen Ballard
Elisa singles chronology
"The Waves"
(2004)		 "Una poesia anche per te"
(2005)		 "Swan"
(2005)

"Life Goes On" is a power ballad by the Italian singer Elisa, included in her album Pearl Days. The ballad was also released in a not Italian literal translation as "Una poesia anche per te".

Composition

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, 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."[3]

Chart performance

"Una poesia anche per te" was released as a single on 15 April 2005. It sold 21,000 copies in Italy in 2005.[4]

Year Chart Peak
position
2005 Italy 2

Track listing

  1. Una poesia anche per te (Life goes on) - 5:14 - (E. Toffoli)
  2. The Waves - 4:10 - (E. Toffoli)

References

  1. ↑ "Una Poesia Anche Per Te (testo) di Elisa". Rockol (in Italian). Retrieved June 26, 2023.
  2. ↑ Oralndo, Antonio (September 14, 2005). "Elisa la poetessa del pop". Corriere della Sera (in Italian). Retrieved June 26, 2023.
  3. ↑ "Elisa: canto in italiano per mio nonno". La Repubblica (in Italian). April 15, 2005. Retrieved June 26, 2023.
  4. ↑ "Le cifre di vendita" (PDF). Musica e dischi: 9. January 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 May 2015. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
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