Explicación de mi amor

(Alfredo Zitarrosa is the composer of the music and co-author of the lyrics Song)

Suddenly you're not - nothing else happened -
fetal drunkenness that your death leaves me.
With this song that sobs, forgotten by me,
I will roam around your woods.

I would like to explain my love to you, not your absence
or my faults; yesterday you were alive.
If I no longer deserve to sing for you,
I ask you: Do not keep dying.

The past time, that gentle feast,
where you were a hidden box,
a key locked in the wall,
an ear in the shadow, the stealth of no one.

That time and you, what I knew,
what you wanted to be, harpsichord and alcohol,
sensitive and brutal, the past and the piano,
ended up in this silence.

If I no longer deserve to sing for you,
I would like to explain my love to you, even though it's late.
Your time has passed, but I stayed here,
playing for you, in your bells.

Shepherd's horn from a remote country,
smooth stone touched by dawn and sky;
I am like your sea, I will roll eternally
towards you and, from you, to the deepest.

But as long as I search for you in things,
as long as you return without me calling you or forgetting you,
I ask you to cleanse my bitter pain;
please, do not keep dying.

You will be my father, as you were my father,
a gamete in the closed crack of time,
hoarse voice of a already silenced organ,
there you are, long pine box.

The weeping that names your name will be
brief and, man, perhaps you knew it;
but there is so much love demanding my love;
please, do not keep dying.