Lyrics of El Puente De Los Suspiros - Mercedes Sosa, Lucho Gonzalez

El Puente De Los Suspiros (original)

Puentecito escondido
Entre follajes y entre añoranzas
Puentecito tendido
Sobre la herida
De una quebrada
Retoña el pensamiento
Tus maderas
Se aferra el corazon
A tus balaustres
Puentecito dormido
Y entre murmullos
En la querencia
Abrazado a recuerdos
Barrancos y escalinatas
Puente de los suspiros
Quiero que guardes
En tu grato silencio
Mi confidencia
Es mi puente un poeta
Que me espera
Con su quieta madera
Cada tarde
Y suspira y suspiro
Me recibe y le dejo
Solo sobre su herida
Su quebrada
Y las viejas consejas
Van cantando
De la injusta distancia
Del amante
Sus arrestos vencidos
Vencidos por los ficus
De enterradas raices
En su amada
Es mi puente un poeta
Que me espera
Con su quieta madera
Cada tarde
Y suspira y suspiro
Me recibe y le dejo
Solo sobre su herida
Su quebrada
Y las viejas consejas
Van contando
De la injusta distancia
Del amante
Sus arrestos vencidos
Vencidos por los ficus
De enterradas raices
En su amada
Puentecito dormido …

(translation)

little hidden bridge
Between foliage and longing
Little bridge laid
about the wound
of a broken
sprout the thought
your woods
the heart clings
to your balusters
sleeping bridge
and between murmurs
in the love
Embraced by memories
Ravines and stairs
bridge of sighs
I want you to save
in your pleasant silence
my confidence
a poet is my bridge
what awaits me
With its still wood
Every afternoon
And sigh and sigh
He receives me and I leave him
Alone about his wound
your broken
And the old advice
They are singing
of the unfair distance
of the lover
The arrests of him expired
Vanquished by the ficus
of buried roots
in his beloved
a poet is my bridge
what awaits me
With its still wood
Every afternoon
And sigh and sigh
He receives me and I leave him
Alone about his wound
your broken
And the old advice
They are counting
of the unfair distance
of the lover
The arrests of him expired
Vanquished by the ficus
of buried roots
in his beloved
Sleeping bridge...