De-ai fi tu salcie [English translation]

If you were a willow on the shore

I would turn myself into a river in your shadow

A star in the opal skies

If you were, the night I would become

And wherever you may be I would stay for a lifetime

In your path, in your shadow ...

If you were a flying swallow

I would turn into a nest on a tree ram

Or the first snowflake

If you were, I would become man out of snow

And wherever you may be I would stay for a lifetime

In shadow, in your path ...

And in your eyes which at night

Sweet sleep shut

I wish to be a moment of a dream

If you were a willow on the shore

I would make myself a river in your shadow

A star in the opal skies

If you were, the night I would become

And wherever you may be I would stay for a lifetime

In your path, in your shadow ...

(If you were the sea that gathered

In the eyes that never lie

On the sad cheek, which they cried

I would become a silver teardrop

Yet a place to hide so much I would like

In your thought[s], in your shadow)

And wherever you may be I would stay for a lifetime

In your path, in your shadow ...

And in your eyes which at night

Sweet sleep shut

I wish to be a moment of a dream

If you were the sun in the sky

I would make when it dawns

A field of flowers ...