Translation of the song lyrics Cenizas - Nicolás Jaar

Cenizas (original)

En las cenizas
Vamos a armar
No saber nada
Es mejor
Ya no cabe nada
Pero estamos juntos
Sin noticias
Del otro mundo
Y cada día
Nuestro mundo
Se achica
O se derrumba
Y lo único que
Me han dicho sobre el tema
Es que es el sentido común de una flecha
Y lo único que
Me han dicho
Es que es el sentido común de una flecha
Y porque no responde
El sentido común
No puedo utilizar su lenguaje
Su lenguaje

Cenizas (translation)

Within the ashes, embers dream anew,
Let us devise what ruins cannot bar,
To dwell in unknowing—a shrouded dew—
Is gentler, dearest, than a wound or scar.
Nothing further fits in this burnt-out room,
Yet we remain—our shadows interlace.
No word arrives—a silence thick as gloom—
From realms that veer beyond all time and place.
And every sun that climbs the trembling air,
Our fragile world draws tighter, threads unspooling,
Shrunken as frost on glass, a breathless prayer,
Or crumbling as a ledge in slow undoing.
And only this—the sole tale ever brought—
Was whispered to me on the matter’s core:
‘It is the logic an arrow always sought,’
And only this—in all I have heard before.
Was told to me—
‘It is the logic an arrow always sought.’
And why then does no answer sing or come,
Common sense—
I cannot wield your language, tongue of stone,
Your language—untranslatable, your own.