Serena Brancale returns to the 2026 Sanremo Festival with “Qui con me”, a cinematic and romantic ballad that marks a turning point compared to the enthralling rhythm of “Baccalà”, the song that had made her famous the previous year.
With this song, the Apulian singer shows off her entire vocal range and talks about herself with unprecedented depth. The song is a love letter to his mother Maria De Filippis, an Italian-Venezuelan musician and teacher who passed away suddenly in 2020 due to an illness. A pain that Serena carried within herself for six years, before finding the courage to share it with the public: «The lyrics of “Qui con me” are my letter to a mother who is no longer here, they are words that I weighed carefully».
The complete text of “Qui con me” – Serena Brancale
There’s a song playing on the radio
And that speaks about us.
Of that love that will always remain, will never pass.
And when I think of you I feel that shiver coming through my heart,
In this silence I hear your voice,
Calm, anger, thirst, hunger and will not change
That complicity that I looked for in your eyes as a child and that will always remain with me
He will accompany.
What if I took you away from those stars
To erase your goodbye from my skin
I would climb the earth and the sky
Even the entire universe
To still have you here with me.
And I talk to you as if you were next to me
Two drops of water are never lost in the sea,
And then look at me, how much I look like you
In the hands, in the love that
You put yourself into things every time
And every day was always worth celebrating
I’m like that too
We are so similar
We are so similar
What if I took you away from those stars
To erase your goodbye from my skin
I would climb the earth and the sky
Even the entire universe
To still have you here with me
What if I took you away from those stars
I would hold you tight too now and forever
I would climb the earth and the sky
Even the entire universe
To still have you here with me
How much life time steals
Beyond the limits I feel you
I know you are still here with me.
With me, with me.
