Translation of the song lyrics Pare Meu - Sílvia Pérez Cruz

Pare Meu (original)

Pare meu que ja no ets al poble
Pare meu que potser algun dia molt discretament m’estimaves
Pare meu que te’n vas anar pel carrer sense ganes
Pare meu que potser algun dia molt discret estimava
Per la sang que hem corre tant brava per les venes
Per les faccions de la teva cara que se’m esborra…
Com el crit que ofega el meu pit
Pare meu!
Per la cicatriu que et partia sencer el ventre
Pare meu!
Pels teus secrets de la seva, els dits de la mare
Pare meu!
Per les tardes pàl•lides a la cuina de casa
Pare meu!
Pels somnis que devien ser teus
Escolant-se per la pica…
Pare meu pels germans meus
Escolant-se per la pica…
Que et retrobi la memòria
La memòria del pare i del fill
La memòria la gata vella
La memòria, oh, pare meu
Pels fils que em lliguen als teus noms
Les teves mans i el teu crani rotund
I el teu somriure que no m’agradava…
Quan jo només volia anar a collir
Pare meu!
Fonoll passat el pont dels vermells
Pare meu!
Que retrobi intactes les meves condemnes
Pare meu!
Condemnes de nena de set anys
Pare meu!
Trobo intactes pare meu
La teva història i la meva
Pare meu juntes volent—se
La teva història i la meva…
Gall, gallina, poll, pare meu?
Gall, gallina, poll, pare meu?
Com mai no vam poder ser
Com mai no podran ser ara
Com mai no vam poder ser
Com mai no podran ser ara
Com mai no vam poder ser
Com mai no podran ser ara
Com mai no vam poder ser
Com mai no podran ser…
Gall, gallina, poll, pare meu?
Gall, gallina, poll, pare meu?
Pare meu…
Pare meu que ja no ets al poble…

Pare Meu (translation)

My father, you are no longer in the village
Dad, you may have loved me very little
Dad, you wandered off the street
My father who perhaps one day very discreetly loved
Because of the blood we have run so wildly through our veins
Because of the features of your face that are being erased from me…
Like the scream that drowns my chest
It seems to me!
Because of the scar that left your whole belly
It seems to me!
For your secrets of hers, mother's fingers
It seems to me!
Pale afternoons in the kitchen at home
It seems to me!
For the dreams that must have been yours
Draining the sink…
My father for my brothers
Draining the sink…
May your memory be restored
The memory of father and son
The memory of the old cat
Memory, oh my father
For the threads that bind me to your names
Your hands and your round skull
And your smile I didn't like
When I just wanted to go harvest
It seems to me!
Fennel past the bridge of the reds
It seems to me!
May my convictions be found intact
It seems to me!
Sentences of a seven-year-old girl
It seems to me!
I find my father intact
Your story and mine
My father wants to be together
Your story and mine
Rooster, hen, chicken, my father?
Rooster, hen, chicken, my father?
How could we never be
How can they never be now
How could we never be
How can they never be now
How could we never be
How can they never be now
How could we never be
How can they never be…
Rooster, hen, chicken, my father?
Rooster, hen, chicken, my father?
It seems to me
My father, you are no longer in the village…