Ciega, sordomuda [English translation]

Argument and methodology

fail me

Each time your anatomy

appears before me

Because this love no longer understands

advice or reason

It feeds on pretext

and lacks nerve (literally, pants/trousers)

This love does not permit me

to remain standing

Because it finally even has broken

my talons

Even if I arise, I'll fall again

If you draw near nothing is useful

to this useless

brutish, blind, deaf-mute,

clumsy, lost, stubborn

this is all that I have been

because of you I've turned into

a thing that does

no other thing but love you

I think on you day and night

and I know not how to forget you

How many times I've tried

to bury you in my memory

And although I say, enough, no more

Again it's the same story

Because this love always knows

how to make me breathe deeply

It's pulls me to the left

and at odds with the world

If only I could exorcise your voice

If only I could escape your name

If only I could yank out my heart

and hide away so as not to feel myself,

once again, a

brutish, blind, deaf-mute,

clumsy, lost, stubborn

this is all that I have been

because of you I've turned into

a thing that does

no other thing but love you

I think on you day and night

and I know not how to forget you

haggard, skinny, ugly, disheveled,

clumsy, foolish, slow, stiff-necked, berserk

completely out of control

You realize it yet you say nothing to me

You see how my

head has become a nest

where only you have refuge

and you don't listen to what I tell you

Look well what you are going to make of me

brutish, blind, deaf-mute,

clumsy, lost, stubborn

this is all that I have been

because of you I've turned into

a thing that does

no other thing but love you

I think on you day and night

and I know not how to forget you

• Artist:Shakira
• Album:¿Dónde están los ladrones? (1998)