Río Abajo [English translation]
Río Abajo [English translation]
I'm water, I'm life
I'm the mother of the crystal fountain
I'm a musical song of keys
I'm the key to this world and its mixture
I'm the rain that gives you the downpour,
the permanent rainfall, true love
I'm the volcano in the sky, the rising lava
that runs through the ice fields
I'm the daughter of the earth, I'm the mother who
grows the fruits and their sowing
I'm the dew that sprinkles instantly
the sunbeams a piercing rainbow
I'm sweet, I'm salty
I'm the feather in the Andean arrow with its dance
I'm the hope of my people
I'm the unbroken promise and the blood of this soil
I'm solace, I'm the cure
I'm the purest figure
I'm the snow, I'm the fog
I'm the cascade that passes as a waterfall
the sudden stream of life that draws us
I'm everyone's skin
I'm the snowflake you cry from your eyes
I'm that force that accelerates in the center of the bud
where the seed is born
You can't put a name on me, you can't capture me
My love is too enormous
Chains don't hold me, I don't fit in your containers
Nor do your surprises trap me
And though you want to control me
I flow downstream, you can't dominate me
Your bottles don't contain me
I give water from the mountain range
There's no miner who can extract me
There's no way your irrigation can even rob me
I carry fertile abundance in my luggage
I come to share my life on this journey
There's no force that surpasses my nature
Nor any machine that stops my skill
I sang like this, the grandmother lives, whispering to you...
I'm water, I'm life
I'm the mother of the crystal fountain
I'm a musical song of keys
I'm the key to this world and its mixture
I'm the rain that gives you the downpour,
the permanent rainfall, true love
I'm the volcano in the sky, the rising lava
that runs through the ice fields
I want to love toward the sea where the sun hides,
toward the horizon where man falls,
I want to see the titanic star,
where the rain bears dreams
- Artist:Ana Tijoux