Translation of the song lyrics Canción Mixteca - Lila Downs

Canción Mixteca (original)

Que lejos estoy del suelo donde he nacido!
Inmensa nostalgia invade mi pensamiento;
Y al ver me tan solo y triste qual hoja al viento
Quisiera llorar, quisiera morir de sentimiento
Oh tierra del sol!, suspiro por verte
Ahora que lejos yo vivo sin luz, sin amor;
Y al verme tan solo y triste cual hoja al viento
Quisiera llorar, quisiera morir de sentimiento

Canción Mixteca (translation)

How distant I am from the earth that once cradled my birth!
An oceanic longing seeps into the chambers of my mind;
And finding myself alone, forlorn, a stray leaf in the stormwind's girth,
I yearn to weep, to let my soul be drowned by sorrow's tide;
O sun-scorched land!—I breathe my hunger just to see you,
Now that my dwelling is exile—unlit, unloved, remote;
And finding myself alone, forlorn, a stray leaf in the stormwind's girth,
I yearn to weep, to let my soul be drowned by sorrow's tide