De-ai fi tu salcie [English translation]

If you were a willow at the shore

I would make a river in your shadow.

If you were a star in the opal sky

I would change myself into the night.

And there where you are, a lifetime I'd stay

In your path, in your shadow...

If you were a house-martin in flight

I would make myself a nest on a tree branch

Or if you were the first flake of snow

I would make myself a snowman

And there where you are, a lifetime I'd stay

In your path, in your shadow...

And in your eyes that sweet sleep

Has closed in the night

I'd like to be a moment of a dream.

If you were the sea that has frozen

In eyes that never lie

I would be made the silver tear

On the sad cheek on which they cried...

I would like so much a place however hidden

In your mind, in your shadow.

And there where you are, a lifetime I'd stay

In your path, in your shadow...

And in your eyes that sweet sleep

Has closed in the night

I'd like to be a moment of a dream.

If you were the sun in the sky

I would make myself a field of flowers

When you rise at dawn...