Ojalá [English translation]

I hope leaves don’t touch your sacred body when they fall

So you can’t make cold ice crystals out of them all

I hope rain stops miraculously kissing your body as it falls

I hope the shy pale Moon dares come out without you

I hope the Earth fails to kiss the steps walked by you

I hope you run out of the constant perfect gaze

The precise word to hurt me

The one smile to seduce me

I hope something quite sudden happens to erase you

A blinding lightning bolt

A cannon ball of snow

I hope at least death takes me and puts me away

So I don’t see you so much

So I don’t see you always

In each of all my seconds

In each of all my visions

I hope I can’t even

Touch you with my music

I hope the dawn won’t utter screams that fall on my back

I hope that voice forgets how to whisper your name

I hope the walls don’t keep in your noise of tired and worn footsteps

I hope desire follows you and goes away

To your old tyrant reign of dead men and dead flowers

I hope you run out of the constant perfect gaze

The precise word to hurt me

The one smile to seduce me

I hope something quite sudden happens to erase you

A blinding lightning bolt

A cannon ball of snow

I hope at least death takes me and puts me away

So I don’t see you so much

So I don’t see you always

In each of all my seconds

In each of all my visions

I hope I can’t even

Touch you with my music

I hope something quite sudden happens to erase you

A blinding lightning bolt

A cannon ball of snow

I hope at least death takes me and puts me away

So I don’t see you so much

So I don’t see you always

In each of all my seconds

In each of all my visions

I hope I can’t even

Touch you with my music

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