Levante returns to the Sanremo Festival 2026 with It’s youa song that focuses on an absolute feeling, capable of upsetting every balance. This is the third participation since for the Sicilian singer-songwriter Tikibombom in 2020 and Live in 2023. This time he chooses the path of emotional nudity, relying on a song that focuses entirely on the strength of sensations. On the cover evening he will go on stage with Gaia reinterpreting The males by Gianna Nannini, but it is with It’s you that Levante plays its most personal game.
What is “It’s You” about?
The heart of the song is love in its most physical and all-encompassing form. Not an abstract feeling, but something that invades the body: the voice trembles, there is no air, the head spins. Falling in love becomes a concrete, almost overwhelming experience, difficult to translate into simple words. Levante describes love as an act of opening, a space that is created where none existed before. It is an internal movement that forces you to give up control, to let yourself be crossed by emotions that shake and transform.
The meaning of the song
In telling It’s youthe artist spoke of the desire to express love in all its forms, ideally listing the physical and mental sensations that accompany those who feel deeply involved. The song thus becomes a sort of emotional inventory: a journey between perceptions, chills and dizziness.
The strong point of the song is its essentiality. No artifice, no superstructure. A dry, direct writing that leaves room for voice and melody. The refrain, refined and unexpected, amplifies the intensity of the text and restores all the interpretative power of Levante.
It’s you it is signed entirely by Levante, who takes care of the lyrics and music, confirming her identity as a complete singer-songwriter. The song is published by Metatron Publishing, Taiga, Gorilla and Edizioni Curci. With It’s youLevante doesn’t just tell about love. He puts it on stage, makes it vibrate, lets it explode in all its emotional intensity. And on the Ariston stage he promises to transform that fragility into pure strength.
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The lyrics of “Sei tu” by Levante
Ah, I can’t feel my legs.
Ah, where are the arms?
And I can’t breathe,
Yet I’m alive,
I feel myself smiling
And I didn’t decide that.
My sight leaves me a little.
I’m looking for my posture,
I become fear,
My throat is shaking too,
The voice can’t find me,
My hands are deceiving me now.
This is how we fall in love…
Make room where there is no room.
Ah, if I could see you with my own eyes
You would tear away all my amazement.
Ah, if I could dress my skin
Vibrate with my sound,
You would know why I never found the way
To explain what love is
For me.
If love is you.
But I’ve already lost control,
My body no longer follows me.
And my head is spinning, it’s spinning
He turns to fix the thought up to where I am worthy:
The fear of nothing.
To show itself even in miseries,
Then stay and count the rubble.
Ah, if I could see you with my own eyes
You would tear away all my amazement
Ah, if I could dress my skin
Vibrate with my sound
You would know why I never found the way
To explain what love is
…If love is you.
If love is you.
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