Era Magico
Negrita Lyrics

The Italian song "Era Magico" (It was magical) by Negrita speaks of a nostalgic memory from the past that got shattered by a present condition of illness. The singer recalls how as a child he was like Robin Hood, never crying despite being hurt, and everything in life was magical. However, the memory gets disrupted as the current state of vomiting clouds his mind. The song notes how fragile and fleeting these magical moments in life are and how health can quickly come and take it all away.

The second verse depicts how the singer got hurt again, this time through electricity. The source of the injury was a radio that resembled one like theirs. The radio, a symbol of the present, amplifies the point of losing the magical past. It is interesting to note that despite the injury, the child speaker still did not cry.

The chorus repeats how things used to be magical, but now he is vomiting, representing how the beauty of one's past is now disrupted by their current conditions of illness. The third verse unfolds how the singer was once a person who loved and never betrayed anybody. It further emphasizes how the past was the essence of everything good and innocent, representing purity that the present cannot replicate. The song ends with the same chorus, highlighting the contrast of the past and the painful present.