| Nocturno (original) | Nocturno (translation) |
|---|---|
| En una noche amarilla | on a yellow night |
| En la plaza blanca y verde | In the white and green square |
| La mujer de ojos negros | The black-eyed woman |
| Escribía sobre el polvo | She wrote on the dust |
| Traído de un astro cercano | Brought from a nearby star |
| Extraños signos proféticos | strange prophetic signs |
| Como si fuera un oráculo | As if it were an oracle |
| Y que nadie la entendiera | And that nobody understood her |
| Sin que ninguno la viera | without anyone seeing her |
| Porque nadie la veía | Because no one saw her |
| A la mujer de ojos verdes, negros | To the woman with green, black eyes |
| Que ahora está en la azotea | That she is now on the roof |
| De un viejo edificio sucio | Of a dirty old building |
| Viejo edificio ceniza | old cinder building |
| Como el polvo de la luna | Like the dust of the moon |
| Donde ella escribe el futuro | where she writes the future |
| La, la, la, la | The, the, the, the |
| La, la, la | The, the, the |
| Y la mujer de ojos rojos, negros | And the woman with red, black eyes |
| Está volando y te mira | She is flying and she looks at you |
| A través de tu ventana | through your window |
| Y ríe desconsolada, descontrolada llora | And she laughs heartbroken, uncontrollably cries |
