Al mar! [English translation]

You and I have eaten at good restaurants,

you and I have danced in the light of a lamp post,

you and I flew around in a yellow Ford Fiesta,

you and I have sung beside a fire,

you and I have sought similar things,

you and I have had a head full of sparrows,

you and I atop the ferris wheel,

you and I and our history,

but you and I've never bathed in the sea, the sea, the sea.

We plant our towels, I invite you to an ice cream,

we play [a game with a ball and paddles], we dodge walkers-by.

On the horizon, you can see the sails

of some kids who play "optimist" in the cove.

I sleep a little while, now that the sea is blowing,

All stretched out you look spectacular:

Long and white in the sand, reading

an intriguing story with an unexpected end

-this heat is insufferable-

You put yourself together and fix your swimsuit,

with your foot you judge how the water is

and everything is ready for us to enter the sea.

So if a day comes and passes by here,

and if, despite work, we find a morning,

I wouldn't forgive it any longer, I wouldn't think of

not picking you up with my motorcycle and and going that way,

really far from here, to the other side of the world,

there's a xiringuito (beach bar) with four pines in back,

you and I sitting at the counter of the bar,

good music's playing and we're facing the sea.

• Artist:Manel
• Album:Els millors professors europeus (2008)