Asturias

Asturias if I could
If I knew how to sing to you
Asturias green with mountains
And black with minerals
I am a man from the south
Dust, sun, fatigue, and hunger
Hunger for bread and horizons
Hunger

Under the dried skin
Solid rivers of blood
And the suffocated heart
Without veins to relieve you
The blind eyes, the eyes
Blind from looking at you so much
Without seeing you distant Asturias
Daughter of my own mother
Twice you had
The opportunity to gamble
Life in a game
And both times you gambled it
Who will knock down that tree?
From Asturias already without foliage?
Naked, dry, nailed
With its intimate root
That runs throughout Spain
Tensing us with courage
Look workers of the world
Its silhouette being outlined
Against that impassive sky
Vertical, unbreakable
Firm on firm rock
Alive wound its flesh
Millions of fists shout
Their anger through the air
Millions of hearts
Beat against your prisons
Prepare your final leap
Livid cowardly death
Prepare your final leap
For Asturias is waiting for you
(Alone in the middle of the earth)
(Daughter of my own mother)