La Cigarra (feat. Lila Downs)

Applause for Lila Downs
Olé!
Mariachi!

Don't sing to me anymore, cicada
Let your droning end
Your song here in my soul
Stabs me like a dagger
Knowing that when you sing (go ahead)
You're proclaiming your death

Sailor, sailor (that)
Tell me if it's true that you know
Because I can't distinguish
If in the depths of the seas
There's another color darker
Than the color of my sorrows

Oh, la-la-la
Oh, la-la-la
There's another color darker
Than the color of my sorrows (ole)

A little dove flying
With a wounded chest
Almost about to cry
Told me very distressed
I'm tired of searching
For a love that's reciprocated

Under the shade of a tree
And to the rhythm of my guitar
I joyfully sing this huapango
Because life is ending
And I want to die singing
Like the cicada dies

Oh, la-ray (that's it, Lila)
Oh, la-ra-la (ole)
Oh, la-ra-la-ra-lay
And I want to die singing
Like the cicada dies