Andrea Bocelli – L’Incontro

Andrea Bocelli sings L’Incontro from the CD Cieli di Toscana on CBS June 26, 2002. The Brooklyn Youth Chorus accompanies him in this amazing song. The poem he recites before singing means: Like a giant, Proud and happy I embrace my little one; The small, tender body, innocent, Fragile and alive, like a little lost bird I press against my chest, Quiet and sure, half asleep, For some instant,almost sweetly, My destiny appears as if in a dream. Thus I see myself old and resigned, Seated there beside the fireplace; Anxiously awaiting a child In the evening, to hear him suddenly return with the gift of a smile, A word, a kindness And like a promise that consoles The immense joy of a caress… Then I awake and have already forgotten, But within my enraptured soul I notice that the newborn child Is already worth more than my own life.