We'll only have to do
Like everything was fine
If that's not real
That's ok

We'll only have to pretend
Even if we do without
Even if we do like
Our parents

Like a good little soldier, good disciple
Don't move. Don't raise
Your voice

That's La Dolce Vita
We must forget
This life we don't live
Yet, we promised each other

And here comes doubt and contempt
This is what our lives
Consist of

All it needed was a heart
Broken down
For the flame
To consume

A bit of love would have been enough again
For the flame
To rekindle

But La Dolce Vita
Is it possible that we forget
This life we don't live
Yet, that we promised each other?

Remember, what we wanted
Us, that’s love
Not bitterness and boredom
Remember, what we did
Us, that's love
Not this series of concessions

By way of love, here are we, side by side
So close but so distant
From each other

I live, you live with no joy, with no scream
I watch our slow
Death throes

Remember what we wanted so much
We would just have to believe in this again

Remember what we wanted so much
We would only have to want this again

Remember what we wanted so much
This was La Dolce Vita
Yet, we promised each other