Alice & Battiato I treni di Touzeur multilanguage videos

Alice & Franco Battiato

It was 1984 when Franco Battiato and Alice participated in Eurovision Song Contest with this song.

This Italian song came fifth in the singing competition, but had a good success in Europe.

These were the years in which Battiato and Alice had much success, both individually and as collaborations (Alice often sang the songs composed by Battiato).

This song, like almost all the Italian songs participating in Eurovision not had a big success in Italy, but Battiato made other two versions, one in English and one in Spanish, here they are:

Italian original version I treni di Tozeur:

Nei villaggi di frontiera guardano passar' i treni
le strade deserte di Tozeur
da una casa lontana tua madre mi vede
si ricorda di me delle mie abitudini.

E per un istante ritorna la voglia di vivere
a un'altra velocità
passano ancora lenti i treni per Tozeur.

Nelle chiese abbandonate si preparano rifugi
e nuove astronavi per viaggi interstellari
in una vecchia miniera distese di sale
si ricordo di me come un incantesimo

E per un istante ritorna la voglia di vivere
a un'altra velocità
passano ancora lenti i treni per Tozeur.

Nei villaggi di frontiera guardano passar'
i treni per Tozeur.

English version The trains for Tozeur:

In the frontier villages they
Watch the trains pass by so slowly
And roads are deserted in Tozeur.
From a house far away
Your mother observes me
And she remembers me
For my very special ways
Then for just a moment my longing
To live at another pace begins to waken in me.
Still they pass, still very slowly
the trains for Tozeur.
In the churches, God-forsaken,
Shelters are being prepared and new ships,
For trips among the stars
In an old empty mine,
Vast stretches of salt
And a memory of me
Like into a magic spell;
Then for just a moment my longing
To live at another pace begins to waken in me;
Still they pass, still very slowly
The trains for Tozeur.
In the frontier villages
They watch the trains pass by
For Tozeur

Spanish version Los Trenes De Tozeur lyrics:

En los pueblos fronterizos miran el paso de los trenes,
las rutas desiertas de Tozeur.
Desde un viejo balcòn tu madre me observa
y se acuerda de mi, y de mi forma de ser,
y por un istante retorna mi anhelo de vivir
a distinta velocidad.
Circulan aùn màs despacio los trenes de Tozeur.
En iglesias vacìas hoy construyen los refugios
de las astronaves interplanetarias.
En una mina olvidada, paredes de sal, yo recuerdo mio,
como un màgico encanto
y por un istante retorna mi anhelo de vivir
a distinta velocidad.
Circulan aùn màs despacio los trenes de Tozeur.
Enlos pueblos fronterizos miran el paso
de los trenes de Tozeur.