"Life Goes On" is a song by Italian singer Elisa, included in her album Pearl Days.
The Italian version of the song, "Una poesia anche per te", was released on April 15, 2005 as the only single from her fifth studio album Pearl Days.
The song was written and composed by Elisa with production by Glen Ballard,[1] in English with the title "Life Goes On", as part of the first edition of Pearl Days in 2004.
[2] The change from the English to the Italian version is not a literal translation of the lyrics, despite the fact that the two songs have the same instrumental base and there is a correspondence of some stanzas; the reason lies in the dedication of the Italian version of the song to the singer's grandfather, as she herself recounted in an interview with La Repubblica:"I made the decision following the death of my grandfather two months ago.
An incredible man who managed to walk back from Germany after being imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camps, and who always taught us a lot of things.