Lyrics of Pena penita pena - Lolita

Pena penita pena (original)

Si en el firmamento poder yo tuviera
Esa noche negra lo mismo que un pozo
Con un cuchillito de luna lunera
Clavarán los hierros de tu calabozo
Si yo fuera rey de la luz del día
Del viento y del mar
Cordeles de esclava yo me ceñiría
Por tu libertad
Ay, pena, penita, pena…
Ay que penita y que dolor
Que me corre por las venas, pena
Con la fuerza de un ciclón
Es lo mismo que un «nublao»
De tiniebla y pedernal
Es un potro «desbocao»
Que no sabe a donde va
Es un desierto de arena, pena
Es mi gloria y mi pena, ay pena, ay pena
Ay pena, penita, pena…

(translation)

If in the firmament I could have
That black night the same as a well
With a lunera moon knife
They will nail the irons of your dungeon
If I were king of daylight
Of the wind and the sea
Slave cords I would gird myself
for your freedom
Oh, sorrow, sorrow, sorrow...
Oh what a pain and what a pain
That runs through my veins, pity
With the force of a cyclone
It is the same as a "cloud"
Of darkness and flint
It is a "runaway" colt
who doesn't know where he's going
It's a desert of sand, pity
It's my glory and my sorrow, oh sorrow, oh sorrow
Oh pity, pity, pity...