Naila

And I took her to the river
Thinking she was a single girl
But she had a husband
It was a night in Santiago
And almost out of obligation
The streetlights came on
And the crickets went silent
The light of understanding
Makes me more restrained
And I don’t want to say as a man
The things she told me
Because having a husband
She said she was single
When I took her to the river

It was a moonlit night, Naila cried in front of me
She told me tenderly, that she loved me madly
I asked her why she was crying
And she answered me like this

My caresses aren’t good anymore
I’m not Naila for you anymore
I’ve given myself to another man
I’m not Naila for you anymore

Naila, tell me why you’re leaving me
Fool, you know I love you
Come back to me, don’t look for other paths
I forgive you because without your love
My heart breaks

'I heard it yesterday from the sharp-tongued
That you got married a month ago
And I stayed so calm
Anyone else in my place would have cried
But I crossed my arms and said, said I didn’t care
No shooting myself, no cursing you
No throwing my sighs
At the bars of your balconies
You got married, good luck
Live a hundred years happy
And when you die, God
Don’t hold it against you
That if at the altar, you forgot my name
For the glory of my mother, I hold no grudge
But since your boyfriend is rich, I sell you this prophecy
In the early morning, you’ll dream you were mine
And you’ll remember the afternoon my lips kissed you
And you’ll wake up crying and call yourself a coward
Coward, just like I’m telling you, because that one
That one who was neither your boyfriend, nor your husband, nor your lover
Has been the one who loved you the most and with that
With that, I have enough
And I don’t ask heaven to send you more punishment
Than to be sleeping with another and dreaming of me

Naila, tell me why you’re leaving me
Fool, you know I love you
Come back to me, don’t look for other paths
I forgive you because without your love
My heart breaks