Kamanchaca

Since I was a child, mother, you taught me and I listened
From a strange blue planet
A hundred light years away
With birds migrating south

Since I was a child, mother, you taught me to discover
In the wind, music
Music of silence
Music is the miracle of living

And you taught me
So differently
Not to cry
And to be brave

The jungle sings to me in another natural language
With a thousand crystal times
Prisoner of the salty sea
In the Andes, God made my home

Since I was a child, mother, you taught me to know
That love can be seen
In the red sunset
To engender life and grow

And they took me
I am lost
The kamanchaca
I want to get out

The kamanchaca
I want to get out