| Percal (original) | Percal (translation) |
|---|---|
| Percal… | Percale… |
| ¿Te acuerdas del percal? | Do you remember percale? |
| Tenias quince abriles, | You were fifteen years old, |
| anhelos de sufrir y amar, | longing to suffer and love, |
| de ir al centro, triunfar | to go to the center, succeed |
| y olvidar el percal. | and forget the percale. |
| Percal… | Percale… |
| Camino del percal, | calico road, |
| te fuiste de tu casa… | you left home... |
| Tal vez nos enteramos mal. | Maybe we got it wrong. |
| Solo se que al final | I only know that in the end |
| te olvidaste el percal. | you forgot the percale. |
| La juventud se fue… | Youth is gone... |
| Tu casa ya no está… | Your house is no longer… |
| Y en el ayer tirados | And in yesterday thrown away |
| se han quedado | they have stayed |
| acobardados | chickened out |
| tu percal y mi pasado. | your percale and my past. |
| La juventud se fue… | Youth is gone... |
| Yo ya no espero más… | I don't wait anymore... |
| Mejor dejar perdidos | Better to leave lost |
| los anhelos que no han sido | the longings that have not been |
| y el vestido de percal. | and the percale dress. |
| Llorar… | Mourn… |
| ¿Por qué vas a llorar… | Why are you going to cry... |
| ¿Acaso no has vivido, | Haven't you lived |
| acaso no aprendiste a amar, | Didn't you learn to love, |
| a sufrir, a esperar, | to suffer, to wait, |
| y también a callar? | and also to shut up? |
| Percal… | Percale… |
| Son cosas del percal… | They are percale things... |
| Saber que estás sufriendo | Know that you are suffering |
| saber que sufrirás aún más | knowing that you will suffer even more |
| y saber que al final | and knowing that in the end |
| no olvidaste el percal. | you did not forget the percale. |
| Percal… | Percale… |
| Tristezas del percal. | Percale sadness. |
