| Llegó rumiando piedras tras caer
| He came ruminating stones after falling
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| Surcada por las cuerdas del serón
| Crossed by the ropes of the serón
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| La lluvia, recogida en puño
| The rain, collected in a fist
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| Demasiada piel
| too much skin
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| Demasiado que perder…
| Too much to lose...
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| Pero todo lo perdió
| But everything was lost
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| Venía mascullando su oración
| She came mumbling her prayer
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| Luciendo el altozano en el costal
| Wearing the lofty in the sack
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| Bullendo -igual que bulle el miedo sujeto al ronzal-;
| Seething -just as fear subject to the halter is seething-;
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| Arrastrando el sinsabor de su sola soledad
| Dragging the distaste of his only loneliness
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| Enséñame tus alas de zorzal
| Show me your thrush wings
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| Aburridas de rezar
| bored of praying
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| Entre el brillo y el espanto
| Between the brilliance and the fright
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| Tu aliento de tomillo, tu verdad
| Your thyme breath, your truth
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| Tu mirada de humedad
| your look of moisture
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| Tu dolor de Viernes santo
| Your Good Friday pain
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| Traía, en la ojeras, una luz
| He brought, in the dark circles, a light
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| Brotando de la grieta que pintó
| Springing from the crack that she painted
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| Quería que su romería fuese multitud
| He wanted her pilgrimage to be a crowd
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| Y, el de los brazos en cruz
| And, the one with the crossed arms
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| Nunca, de ella, se acordó
| She never remembered
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| Enséñame esa noche que tendrá
| Show me that night that she will have
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| Una senda que labrar
| A path to work
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| Que me cubra con su manto
| May she cover me with her mantle
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| Que no me despedace al recordar
| That she doesn't tear me to pieces by remembering
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| Que no pude remendar
| that I couldn't mend
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| Tu dolor de Viernes santo
| Your Good Friday pain
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| Y en esta orilla, que chilla de tanto aguantar
| And on this shore, which screams from so much enduring
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| Fue la costilla rota de Adán;
| It was Adam's broken rib;
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| La de la vieja Andalucía rebuscando pan;
| The one from old Andalusia looking for bread;
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| La que ha masticado el sol; | The one that has chewed the sun; |
| la salina de mi sal
| the saline of my salt
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| Enséñame tus alas de zorzal
| Show me your thrush wings
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| Aburridas de rezar
| bored of praying
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| Entre el brillo y el espanto
| Between the brilliance and the fright
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| Tu aliento de tomillo, tu verdad
| Your thyme breath, your truth
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| Tu mirada de humedad
| your look of moisture
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| Tu dolor de Viernes santo
| Your Good Friday pain
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| Enséñame esa noche que tendrá
| Show me that night you will have
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| Una senda que labrar
| A path to work
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| Que me cubra con su manto
| May she cover me with her mantle
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| Que no me despedace al recordar
| That does not tear me apart when remembering
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| Que no pude remendar
| that I couldn't mend
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| Tu dolor de Viernes santo | Your Good Friday pain |