Campesina

Country Girl

Campesina

You were born on any given day in a place,Naciste un día cualquiera en un lugar,
Where a tree and a cloud are always there,Donde un árbol y una nube siempre están,
And they meet and thus confront their loneliness.Y se conocen y así confrontan su soledad.

Being a child, your toy becameSiendo niña tu juguete llegó a ser
To transcend your horizon and knowTrascender tu horizonte y conocer
As a teenager, your adolescence was never.De adolescente, tu adolescencia nunca fue.

Country girl and they call happiness to your life,Campesina y a tu vida llaman felicidad,
That happiness measured in your seeing, in your walking,Esa felicidad medida en tu ver, en tu andar,
Seeing your flowery treeEn ver tu árbol de florido
And walking under your cloud.Y bajo tu nube andar.

Your heart woke up one day,Tu corazón un día despertó,
There wasn't much space in which it drowned,No era mucho el espacio en que se ahogó,
You made a mistake in choosing, you didn't have two.Te equivocaste para elegir no tuviste dos.

Between what you desired and what wasEntre lo que deseaste y lo que fue
Between the sun and the night you don't see,Entre el sol y la noche que no ves,
Five lies you brought to the world to ask.Cinco mentiras trajiste al mundo a preguntar.

They buried you commenting on your great happinessTe enterraron comentando tu gran felicidad
That happiness, measured in your seeing, in your walking,Esa felicidad, medida en tu ver, en tu andar,
Close to your flowery tree, I will walk under your cloud.Cerca de tu árbol florido, bajo tu nube he de andar.