Explicación de mi amor

Explanation of my love

Explicación de mi amor

(Alfredo Zitarrosa is the composer of the music and co-author of the lyrics Song)(Alfredo Zitarrosa es el compositor de la música y el coautor de la letra Canción)

Suddenly you're not - nothing else happened -De golpe no estás -nada más sucedió-
fetal drunkenness that your death leaves me.borrachera fetal que tu muerte me deja.
With this song that sobs, forgotten by me,Con esta canción que solloza, olvidada de mí,
I will roam around your woods.rondaré tus maderas.

I would like to explain my love to you, not your absenceQuisiera explicarte mi amor, no tu ausencia
or my faults; yesterday you were alive.o mis culpas; ayer tú vivías.
If I no longer deserve to sing for you,Si ya no merezco cantar para ti,
I ask you: Do not keep dying.yo te pido: No sigas muriendo.

The past time, that gentle feast,El tiempo pasado, ese suave festín,
where you were a hidden box,donde fuiste una caja escondida,
a key locked in the wall,un clave encerrado en el muro,
an ear in the shadow, the stealth of no one.una oreja en la sombra, el sigilo de nadie.

That time and you, what I knew,Ese tiempo y tú, lo que yo conocí,
what you wanted to be, harpsichord and alcohol,lo que quisiste ser, clavicordio y alcohol,
sensitive and brutal, the past and the piano,sensitivo y brutal, el pasado y el piano,
ended up in this silence.acabaron en este silencio.

If I no longer deserve to sing for you,Si ya no merezco cantar para ti,
I would like to explain my love to you, even though it's late.yo quisiera explicarte mi amor, aunque es tarde.
Your time has passed, but I stayed here,Tu tiempo pasó, pero yo me quedé aquí,
playing for you, in your bells.tañendo por ti, en tus campanas.

Shepherd's horn from a remote country,Cuerno de pastor de un remoto país,
smooth stone touched by dawn and sky;piedra lisa que el alba y el cielo tocaron;
I am like your sea, I will roll eternallysoy como tu mar, rodaré eternamente
towards you and, from you, to the deepest.hacia ti y, desde ti, a lo más hondo.

But as long as I search for you in things,Mas mientras te busque en las cosas,
as long as you return without me calling you or forgetting you,en tanto regreses sin que yo te llame o te olvide,
I ask you to cleanse my bitter pain;te pido que limpies mi amargo dolor;
please, do not keep dying.por favor, que no sigas muriendo.

You will be my father, as you were my father,Mi padre serás, como fuiste mi padre,
a gamete in the closed crack of time,un gameto en la grieta cerrada del tiempo,
hoarse voice of a already silenced organ,voz ronca de un órgano ya enmudecido,
there you are, long pine box.ahí estás, larga caja de pino.

The weeping that names your name will beEl llanto que nombre tu nombre será
brief and, man, perhaps you knew it;breve y, hombre, tal vez lo sabías;
but there is so much love demanding my love;pero es tanto amor exigiendo mi amor;
please, do not keep dying.por favor, no te sigas muriendo.