Cât aș fi vrut [English translation]

I wonder what hope called you,

Which roads did you take today?

I wonder if it was true

Everything that, long ago, loving, we told each other...

I wonder if we could ever be,

After a while, just two strangers,

Who look at each other, smiling in silence,

And that's all...

How much I'd have wanted to understand

What my gaze was telling you,

How much I'd have wanted, with a word,

To calm down my anxiety!

How much I'd have wanted to smash in a hurry

The mirror I looked at,

So that I don't see again my loneliness in it!

How much I'd have wanted to stop me,

Even if you were to lie a little,

To tell me you still love me

And to call me in order to caress you!

How much I'd have wanted not to have been

That aimless silence,

And to keep all that was yesterday for tomorrow too!

I wonder which color would have

A spring in your absence...

I wonder if would arise again

My star, in the night sky.

I wonder if I would find myself again

In a time in which you are not there,

To give me hope for the day to come.

How much I'd wanted...

• Artist:Angela Similea
• Album:De dragul tău (1988)