Da Dio
Bresh
How to study this song
Learning “Da Dio” means 65 entries at B1+ — 20 Italian words, 12 adjectives and 33 verb forms, every one taken from what the song actually says. The glossary is the place to begin — caldo, vita and mano are the song’s keywords. This one leans on its verbs: 33 distinct forms against 12 adjectives, so conjugation is where the effort goes. At this level part of the list will already be familiar; the rest is what closes the gap.
The words of this song, in several languages
Every word below is taken from this song and translated by us. Nothing here is the lyric itself — these are the individual words you need in order to follow it.
Vocabulary
| IT | EN | ES | FR | PT | NL | DE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| caldo | heat | calor | chaleur | calor | hitte | Hitze |
| vita | life | vida | vie | vida | leven | Leben |
| mano | hand | mano | main | mão | hand | Hand |
This card holds 17 more words. You meet them when you play the song.
Adjectives
What this song teaches you
Level · B1+
- Vocabulary words
- 20
- Adjectives
- 12
- Word combos
- 16
- Expressions
- 18
- Verb forms
- 33
- Quiz questions
- 35
Background
About the song
«Da Dio» is a single by the Genoese singer-songwriter and rapper Bresh, released on 15 May 2026 by Epic Records, the Sony Music label that has published his albums. It lasts two minutes and fifty-three seconds and is one of the new songs added to «Mediterraneo (Dopo il mare)», the expanded edition of his album «Mediterraneo» that came out on 5 June 2026. According to the Italian Wikipedia entry on the song, the words were written by Bresh himself, whose real name is Andrea Emanuele Brasi, and the music by Brasi together with Luca Ghiazzi and Rocco Biazzi. Ghiazzi, known as Shune, is also the producer, a credit confirmed by the magazine Sorrisi e Canzoni TV in its review of the summer concerts. Shune is Bresh's most regular partner in the studio: the two also signed «Guasto d'amore», the 2023 hit that reached number one in Italy.
The title is an everyday Italian expression. Literally it means "from God" or "like God", but in conversation something that goes or looks da Dio is simply wonderful, perfect, superb. In the song the phrase describes how a woman is dressed, and that detail becomes the narrator's excuse: he had planned to be sensible, but in front of her he could not say no. The Italian Wikipedia page sums up the theme as the ability of life to surprise you once you consciously stop trying to keep everything under control, and the lyric follows that idea from beginning to end.
The song is told in the first person by a man who sees a woman, feels the heat rising and tries to stay calm. He admits he never believed things could turn out the way they did, and tells life to do whatever it likes, because he no longer holds the reins. In the chorus he confesses that he likes her, but that everybody else wants her too, so in practice he should probably keep his distance; he would like to pretend, and he does not want it to be just a single night. He calls her stralunatica, a playful word that seems to merge stralunata, dazed, with lunatica, moody, and explains that she is always lost in daydreams.
The verses play with the idea of being found out. She seems to read his mind, as if she had eyes in the back of her head or a crystal ball; he jokes that the planets and their games have driven him mad, and wonders whether he should enjoy the moment or run away once more. The bridge turns into a list of contradictions — beautiful and distracted, rebellious and wild, crazy and serious, fake and true — before the narrator compares the love of that evening to a guitar solo by Eric Clapton. A Spanish interjection and an English adjective slip into the Italian text, a habit that is common in Italian pop and rap.