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“Il mondo” meaning

Jimmy Fontana · 1965 · 🇮🇹 Italy · Level A2

Jimmy Fontana's 1965 ballad: love has ended, but the world keeps turning — it never stopped for a moment.

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What the song is about

“Il mondo” (the world) is a 1965 ballad by Jimmy Fontana. After a night of love that has ended — or a love that's over — the singer looks around and realises the world didn't stop: night follows day, the sun rises, life goes on, indifferent to his heart.

It became a classic of 1960s Italian song, covered in many languages, and it has returned again and again in films and adverts. It's a favourite of Italian-language classes for good reason.

The Italian is slow and the vocabulary is basic: the world, night, day, to turn, to stop. Learn “non si è fermato mai” (it never stopped) and you've got the chorus.

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Level A2 · Slow, simple, a big chorus

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