El mar y la esperanza [English translation]

The sea and hope never die,

your kisses and my love within will never die,

I feel that God has illuminated me;

giving me the strength to never stop looking for you.

Why were your parents so disagreeable?

why did they part me from your love?

I see you wherever I am,

with just the thought of you I cry.

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I lead my life like a bird with its feathers plucked,

missing wings to fly to wherever you are,

I feel my eyes are tightly shut,

I can't see you even if you're with me.

I'd like to be a magician to find you,

I'd like to be a gypsy so I'd know -

well, they say they1 are the ones

that read fates, why have you made me fall?2

1. gypsies2. either means 'made me fall for you' or 'made me succumb to this state I'm in now'.

• Artist:Flor Silvestre