Hijo de La Luz Y de La Sombra
Joan Manuel Serrat
Son of Light and Shadow
You are the night, wife, the night in the instant
Greatest of its lunar and feminine power.
You are midnight: the culminating shadow
Where the dream culminates, where love culminates.
I will give on your body when the night throws
Its greedy longing for magnetism and power.
An astral feverish feeling overwhelms me,
Sets my bones on fire with a shiver.
You are the night, wife
You are the night, wife
You are the night, wife
And I am the midday.
The night has ignited like a silent bonfire
Of mineral flames and dark charges.
And around, the shadow beats as if
It were the souls of the wells and the wine diffused.
Ask that you and I lie down on the blanket,
You and I on the moon, you and I on life.
Ask that you and I burn, melting in the throat,
With all the firmament, the trembling earth.
You are the night, wife
You are the night, wife
You are the night, wife
And I am the midday.
Abundant woman, I bury myself in your womb.
Your abundant womb will be my burial.
If my bones were burned with the flame of iron,
They would see that I carry your figure engraved there.
With love on our backs, asleep and awake,
We will continue kissing in the deep son.
Kissing you and me, our dead kiss,
The first inhabitants of the world kiss each other.
You are the night, wife
You are the night, wife
You are the night, wife
And I am the midday.
You are the night, wife
And I am the midday.