| Life Goes On | |
| Artist: | Elisa |
| Album: | Pearl Days |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Pop rock |
| Producer: | Glen Ballard |
| Una poesia anche per te | |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Elisa |
| Album: | Pearl Days |
| Producer: | Glen Ballard |
| Prev Title: | The Waves |
| Prev Year: | 2004 |
| Next Title: | Swan |
| Next Year: | 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".
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]
"Una poesia anche per te" was released as a single on 15 April 2005. It sold 21,000 copies in Italy in 2005.[4]