Translation of the song lyrics Luz de Luna - The Chieftains, Ry Cooder, Chavela Vargas

Luz de Luna (original)

Yo quiero luz de luna
Para mi noche triste
Para soñar divina
La ilusión que me trajiste
Para sentirte mía, mía tú
Como ninguna
Pues desde que te fuiste
No he tenido luz de luna
Pues desde que te fuiste
No he tenido luz de luna
Si ya no vuelves nunca
Provincianita mía
A mi senda querida
Que está triste y está fría
En vez de en mi almohada
Lloraré sobre mi tumba
Pues desde que te fuiste
No he tenido luz de luna
Pues desde que te fuiste
No he tenido luz de luna
Yo siento tus amarras
Como garfios, como garras
Que me ahogan en la playa
De la farra y el dolor
Y siento tus cadenas a rastras
En mi noche callada
Que sea plenilunada
Y azul como ninguna
Pues desde que te fuiste
No he tenido luz de luna
Pues desde que te fuiste
No he tenido
Luz de luna

Luz de Luna (translation)

I hunger for moonlight’s grace,
To gentle my sorrow-shrouded eve,
To cradle within my dreams, celestial,
The vision your presence once did weave.
To taste you wholly mine—yes, mine—
As no other’s soul entwined,
For since the hour you vanished,
No silvery moonlight has shone for me.
For since the hour you vanished,
No silvery moonlight has shone for me.
If you should never wander home again,
My country maiden, woven from dusk,
Along my well-worn, cherished trail,
Now bleak and shivering with dusk,
Instead of finding peace on my pillow,
I shall weep above my own tombstone,
For since the hour you vanished,
No silvery moonlight has shone for me.
For since the hour you vanished,
No silvery moonlight has shone for me.
Your bonds I feel encircle me,
Like talons, like barbed iron hooks,
Drowning me where the surf and sorrow meet,
On the brine of revel and wound,
And your chains drag—a shadow trailing—
Through my night, so hushed, so keen,
Would that it bloomed with plenilune,
Blue as no other blue has been,
For since the hour you vanished,
No silvery moonlight has shone for me.
For since the hour you vanished,
I have not known
Moonlight’s touch.