Cuánta Soledad Tengo de Ti
Victor Manuel
How Much Loneliness I Have from You
Bring the red shirt, tralalara, tralalara
From the blood of a companion look
Look maruxina look, look how I come...
If I say that your gaze weighs on me
The dampness in your soul, I say homeland,
Your relentless judgments, so much you have so much you're worth
Breathing to your children even the air.
Time and distance don't change you
You defend yourself from those who love you, I say homeland,
Sometimes just a word is enough to take me
Some cloud that soaks me with nostalgia.
How much loneliness I have from you
My land here and there...
Sometimes I imagine you as a dawn
So nakedly white, immaculate
I invent you as I want you to be
The window always open where the stars come in.
Sometimes scratching your bark
We discover your true stature
Your snows of the orange tree almost eternal
Like the fire of that bonfire where you burn and scorch us.
To the north beyond the horizon
When everything abandons me, I say homeland,
To the north some cherry tree will cast shade
On the ashes that my dreams scattered in the wind.
