‘For Two Like Us’, Olly and Angelina Mango together in the new single: meaning and lyrics

After the success of ‘Devastante’, which to date has achieved over 53 million total streams, the album is released today, Friday 6 September, ‘For Two Like Us’, Olly’s New Single which sees him collaborating for the first time with singer-songwriter Angelina Mango. The song is accompanied by a video clip directed by Simone Peluso. The song, co-written by Olly and the winner of the last Sanremo Festival, was born from a relationship of mutual respect between the two young talents.

‘Per due come noi’, produced by the two artists together with JVLI – talks about relationships and the complexity of the relationships that we all experience, whether it’s love, friendship, family or even short and casual encounters; how we grow and change when we have to deal with a person who is different from us in small things, which are however a mirror of larger divergences. The song is at the same time awareness and acceptance of the fact that every human relationship is unrepeatable and unique but also of how even when experiencing the strongest of feelings sometimes this is not enough to keep two people together.

The lyrics of For Two Like Us

For two like us

There are no fairy tales

Two like us

Will you stop crying? (Come on, stop it)

For two like us

Say hello to your family for me (No, no, no)

And, you know, if I looked at you with my own eyes

You would never leave, ai-ai-ai-ai

But someone like me

He needs to run (Mhm)

To feel alive

And one like you (You)

He settles for the minimum

A note on the fridge (Mhm)

Now that I’m not there

And you feel tiny

The bed seems very big

But you know that

Come on, you know it

For two like us

That they love each other

That they love each other strangely

We grew up together

Between two like us

There is no winner or loser

There are those who lie and those who admit

Don’t pretend nothing’s happening, nothing’s happening, nothing’s happening, no

Don’t pretend nothing is happening, no

If you want I swear

If you want I’ll shout it out to you

Even under the flood

There is no one like us

It was nice to see you again after a while

You were waiting for me among the people in line

You are more grown up than before

But with the usual self-esteem problems

We have a job, a house, a past

That we no longer know

I see you want to apologize to me

And if we start again

But you know me and you know

That someone like me

He never comes back again

Rather, it moves forward on broken glass

I turn around and I see you (I turn around and I see you)

And if I think about it I smile (And if I think about it I smile)

Because I understood it (But what did you understand?)

I don’t need to have you around anymore

You know it so well

You know it so well

That two like us

That they love each other

That they love each other strangely

We grew up together

Between two like us

There is no winner or loser

There are those who lie and those who admit

Don’t pretend nothing’s happening, nothing’s happening, nothing’s happening, no

Don’t pretend nothing is happening, no

If you want I swear (Oh)

If you want I’ll shout it to you (Oh)

Even under the flood

There is no one like us, no

There is no one, no

And I swear to you

But yes, I swear to you

There is no one