El Salitre

Nacho Vegas

Saltpeter

They say the storm has subsided
We will try to sleep
On our feet, iodine and bandages
They remember the way
And you want to know if when you wake up
Cut to the bone
Something could have changed
And I don't want to lie

getting here
What else can happen to us?
We can go
And ask the sea
So that he responds to us with roars
So that, tell us the truth

And if the sun has risen and it hasn't, it's not for both of us.
Tell me for whom?
Or if the wind doesn't blow for both of us today
So by whom?
How can I love you well?
If I am my own enemy
And how to start again?
When there is so much yesterday here, in me

and now say
What else can happen to us?
We can go
And ask the sea
So that he responds to us with roars
To tell us the truth

And they can tell you that in love
There must be a loser
that in love
There must be a winner
But listen to me, I was there
And I know there are nothing but survivors
Let them talk, I prefer to hear
things of the sea

getting here
What else can happen to us?
We can go
And ask the sea
and now say
What else can happen to us?
We can go
And ask the sea
So that it responds to us with roars
And tell us the truth
And above all, to be able
Move forward under the same burning sun
With the trials that we still have to lose
With the saltpeter adhered to our skin
Like Jonah in the bowels of the great fish
With algae and stones
With all the water we swallow when swimming
With the lies I had the audacity to swear on