A Mi Pago
Pepe Guerra
To My Homeland
There's a place with a calm river
Peaceful like a sweet dawn
Where the singing of the birds
Unintentionally makes me even more native
On the bank of that river I'm thinking
That one day quietly I'll leave
I'll stop being a singer but how beautiful
Because forever I'll be fertile land
(And the day that death falls in love
With my song that was never very beautiful
I just want my guitar to fall silent
In the musical land where I dreamed)
I who always stayed up all night on the roads
With the yearning I was born with to travel
To walk with my childhood I brought with me
The landscape that once saw me born
In my pilgrim journey I saw homelands
Beautiful homelands that made me understand
That there's nothing bluer than the longing
That as a child I carry inside me
(And the day that death falls in love
With my song that was never very beautiful
I just want my guitar to fall silent
In the musical land where I dreamed)
