Vell és tant bell [English translation]

[Spoken:]

I opened the door

And your hands were interlaced.

Your gestures were of embarrassment

And you broke apart so much tenderness...

You looked up from heads handing down (in shame)

And, as if nothing had happened:

'Hello Lluís, how are you?'

You thought that, being so old,

One mustn't do these things.

You that that, with age,

(Love) doesn't have the charm of youth;

What will people say?

It would be better to be more discreet!

I didn't know how to say to you

How much I liked to watch you!

I didn't know how to say

That your joy, so very timid,

Opened spaces for love

Where it was written that...

Old is so beautiful!

Old is so beautiful

That the limits are opened

For time, for art,

For song,

For me and you and the world...

Life itself!

[Spoken:]

Today I remember you

Just like that... Just...

Now that we must live amidst the shadows,

Creating and recreating the verb to love

With the art of a rare wisdom;

Knowing how to die at each instant

And being next to each other, forever more...

They tell you that, so old,

One mustn't do these things.

They tell you that, with age,

(Love) doesn't have the charm of youth;

What will people say to you?

'It's best for you to be discreet...'

I didn't know how to say to you

How much I liked to watch you!

I didn't know how to say

That your joy, so very timid,

Announced to the world

Your right to say:

Old is so beautiful!

Old is so beautiful

That the limits are opened

For time, for art,

For song,

For me and you and the world...

Life itself!

Old is so beautiful!

Old is so beautiful

That all the lines are written

For time, for art,

For song,

For me and you and the world...

Life itself...

• Artist:Lluís Llach
• Album:Jocs (2002)