Cuando Baja La Marea

My love, on this slow summer afternoon
Your memory is a faded photograph the hours are blurring
How difficult it is to draw your features, a half-day after leaving
My love, if your eyes were black figs, if your teeth were lemon wedges
I don't remember the arch of your eyebrows
I can barely even talk about anything other than your smell

The mind, when the tide recedes
Out of pure survival instinct
Tries to cauterize every trace
That is left behind with the passage of love

The mind, when the tide recedes
Showing the structure of the pain
It activates a defense mechanism
For the heart to not drown

(Air) I'm short of breath
(On this lazy summer afternoon) I can't seem to describe you
(Your memory is a gray photo) barely outlined
(That the hours are blurring) oh, no

(My love) I try to draw
(Your features, but I can hardly do it now) no matter how hard I try
(How difficult it is to recognize) with all we love
(That you've barely left a mark on me)

Air, now, as the tide recedes
And the shipwreck is now total, what a shame