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Adelena

Maggie Reilly

Adelena

No Disney World
No world of wonder
I wonder what she's thinking
This special girl grows beautiful
Inside a world that's shrinking

Good night little precious
We can never tell
If you feel the hopeful kisses
There inside your shell

Endless conversations
The voices never heard
Talk Talk Talk
The empty words
Adelena Adelena

Such innocence
In this isolation
Can never be defiled
So present tense
There's no past or future
For a secret child

Endless conversations
Voices never heard
Talk Talk Talk
The empty words
Adelena Adelena

Sometimes we cry
She doesn't speak that language
She doesn't sing that song
One day we'll die
But will she feel the distance?
Oh will she know we're gone?

She wouldn't talk back
We tried to teach her
Wouldn't look up
We just can't reach her
Wouldn't turn around
Alien creature
I take her in my arms
And this is what she feels

No past or future
And this is what she feels
Adelena...
The empty words
Adelena...
Alien creature
Wouldn't talk back
We tried to teach her
Wouldn't turn around
We just can't reach her
Wouldn't turn, wouldn't see
Adelena...

Adelena

No hay Mundo Disney
Ni mundo de maravillas
Me pregunto en qué está pensando
Esta chica especial se vuelve hermosa
Dentro de un mundo que se encoge

Buenas noches pequeña preciosa
Nunca podemos saber
Si sientes los besos llenos de esperanza
Allí dentro de tu caparazón

Conversaciones interminables
Las voces nunca escuchadas
Habla, habla, habla
Las palabras vacías
Adelena, Adelena

Tanta inocencia
En este aislamiento
Nunca puede ser profanada
Tan presente
No hay pasado ni futuro
Para un niño secreto

Conversaciones interminables
Voces nunca escuchadas
Habla, habla, habla
Las palabras vacías
Adelena, Adelena

A veces lloramos
Ella no habla ese idioma
No canta esa canción
Un día moriremos
Pero ¿sentirá la distancia?
¿Oh sabrá que nos hemos ido?

Ella no respondería
Intentamos enseñarle
No levantaba la vista
Simplemente no podemos alcanzarla
No se daba la vuelta
Criatura alienígena
La tomo en mis brazos
Y esto es lo que siente

Sin pasado ni futuro
Y esto es lo que siente
Adelena...
Las palabras vacías
Adelena...
Criatura alienígena
No respondería
Intentamos enseñarle
No se daba la vuelta
Simplemente no podemos alcanzarla
No se giraba, no veía
Adelena...

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