L'amore è un attimo

Infobox ESC entry
song = "L'Amore È Un Attimo"


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year = 1971
country = Italy
artist = Giovanni Calone
as = Massimo Ranieri
with =
language = Italian
languages =
composer = Enrico Polito
lyricist = Giancarlo Bigazzi, Gaetano Savio
conductor =
place = 5th
points = 91
place_semi =
points_semi =
lyrics = [http://www.diggiloo.net/?1971it from Diggiloo Thrush]
clip = "L'amore è un attimo" (English translation: "Love Is A Moment") was the Italian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1971, performed in Italian by Massimo Ranieri.

The song is a ballad, in which Ranieri attempts to write a letter to his lover ending their relationship. He repeats the phrase "You said that the one that can tear us apart will never be born" and also tells her that "life is a storm, stronger than us" in his attempts to rationalise the breakup. It appears that he is as despondent about the end of the relationship as he believes she will be, but no reason for it is offered.

The song was performed eleventh on the night (following Belgium's Jacques Raymond & Lily Castel with Goeiemorgen, Morgen and preceding Sweden's Family Four with Vita Vidder). At the close of voting, it had received 91 points, placing 5th in a field of 18.

It was succeeded as Italian representative at the 1972 Contest by Nicola di Bari with "I giorni dell'arcobaleno".