Translation of the song lyrics Maldita Dulzura - Vetusta Morla

Maldita Dulzura (original)

Hablemos de ruina y espina
Hablemos de polvo y herida
De mi miedo a las alturas
Lo que quieras, pero hablemos
De todo menos del tiempo
Que se escurre entre los dedos
Hablemos para no oírnos
Bebamos para no vernos
Y hablando pasan los días
Que nos quedan para irnos
Yo al bucle de tu olvido
Tú al redil de mis instintos
Maldita dulzura la tuya
Maldita dulzura la tuya
Maldita dulzura la tuya
Me hablas de ruina y espina
Me clavas el polvo en la herida
Me culpas de las alturas
Que ves desde tus zapatos
No quieres hablar del tiempo
Aunque esté de nuestro lado
Y hablas para no oírme
Y bebes para no verme
Y yo callo y río y bebo
No doy tregua ni consuelo
Y no es por maldad, lo juro
Es que me divierte el juego
Maldita dulzura la mía
Maldita dulzura la mía
Maldita dulzura la mía
Maldita dulzura la nuestra

Maldita Dulzura (translation)

Let us speak of ruin’s thorny crown,
Of dust that drifts and wounds that do not close,
Of my vertigo at the unscaled height,
Name your desire, but let us keep the words alive,
Of all things—speak, just not of time,
That sifts away like silt between our fingers,
Let us talk so silence cannot haunt us,
Let us drink till sight grows blurred and false,
And through our talking, days glide past like shadows,
All that remains before we take our leave,
I spiral in the orbit of your forgetting,
You graze the fold of my feral longing,
Accursed is the sweetness born of you,
Accursed is the sweetness born of you,
Accursed is the sweetness born of you,
You conjure ruin’s thorn anew for me,
You press the dust into my open wound,
You blame these heights upon my trembling,
The heights you spy from within your own gait,
You shy from speaking of the hourglass,
Even when its sand is spilling for us,
And speak, merely to keep my voice at bay,
And drink, so you need not behold my face,
And I fall silent, laugh, and raise my glass,
I offer neither truce nor gentle solace,
It is not malice, this I swear to you,
But how the game itself delights me so,
Accursed is the sweetness born of me,
Accursed is the sweetness born of me,
Accursed is the sweetness born of me,
Accursed is the sweetness we have forged