Óleo de mujer con sombrero [English translation]

A woman got lost

To know the delirium and the dust

This beautiful madness has been lost

With her narrow waist under me

My love style has been lost

My footprints have been lost in her sea

I see a light that flickers

It promises to leave us in complete darkness

I see a dog howling at the moon

Next to a shape that reminds me of you

I see more: I see that it couldn't find me

I see more: I see that it got lost

A woman whose name cannot be said

Flees just like a seagull

I dry my boots quickly,

Blurt out a note and turn off the clock

Love should be on its guard against me

Because I may sing its own song against it

Cowardice is something that has to do

With men, not with lovers

Coward love will become neither love

Nor a story, it gets stuck there

Not even memories can save it

Not even the best orator can bring it together

A woman with a hat

Just like a painting by good old Chagall

Getting corrupted in the middle of fear

And I, being not a good person, broke down in tears

But at that time I was crying for myself

And now I am crying because I see her dying

• Artist:Silvio Rodríguez
• Album:Al final de este viaje (1978)