La sombra de lo que fui [English translation]

A new day has come

And I still cannot understand why...

It would have been better

To die in my sleep, just maybe.

Living is so hard for me,

But my feet keep dragging me

Towards today's routine,

Which is the same routine as yesterday:

Waking up the children

And making coffee,

Toiling away around the house

Without hope and without faith...

Fixing myself up in the afternoon

And, in reality, for whom?

Alone!

Life runs away and every time

I feel more lonely.

Alone!

Between a rock and a hard place,

My feelings...

I live and breathe, nothing more,

As the shadow of the same woman I was yesterday...

Since he left me,

I try to rebuild

The other half of my being,

So I can learn to live again.

Yet I cannot understand

How I failed him;

If my bosom is sagging

And my skin has stretchmarks;

If my belly is misshapen,

It's all so I could give birth for him!

I am one more victim

Of that thing they call love:

The great fraud that ends

In loneliness and fear!

Alone!

The children are growing up and every time

I feel more lonely.

Alone!

Not even the hatred from before

Keeps me company...

I am a stranger to myself:

The sorry shadow of that other woman that I was yesterday!

[Instrumental]

Alone!

Life runs away and every time

I feel more lonely.

Alone!

Between a rock and a hard place,

My feelings...

I live and breathe, nothing more,

As the shadow of the same woman I was yesterday...

Alone!

The children are growing up and every time

I feel more lonely.

Alone!

Not even the hatred from before

Keeps me company...

I am a stranger to myself:

The sorry shadow of that other woman that I was yesterday!

Alone!

Life runs away and every time

I feel more lonely...

• Artist:Yolandita Monge
• Album:Mis Canciones Preferidas, Vol. 2 (1991)