Un mundo raro [English translation]

When they tell you about love and dreams

and they offer you the sun and the whole heaven,

if you recall me, don’t mention me,

because you’ll feel the love of a good guy.

And if they want to know about your past,

it will be necessary to tell a lie,

say that you come from a strange world,

that you don’t know how to mourn,

that you don’t understand love

and you have never loved.

Because wherever I go

I will tell of your love

as it were a golden dream,

and forgetting the bitterness

I won’t say that your farewell made me unhappy.

And if they want to know about my past,

it will be necessary to tell another lie,

I’ll say that I come from a strange world,

that I don’t know what’s pain,

that I triumph in love

and that I have never cried.

And if they want to know about your past,

it will be necessary to tell another lie,

say that you come from a strange world,

that you don’t know how to mourn,

that you don’t understand love

and you have never, ever loved.

• Artist:Chavela Vargas