El Farolito [English translation]

I still remember the corner lamppost

Tenderly, it would light my lies

I wasn't sixteen like I said I was

I was a candy-aged boy

You kissed me before the moon and my two cousins

Blushing even the clothes I was wearing

Tender lips that killed my vigil

They would steal the toys of those days

The football matches with my friends

I exchanged them for kisses and cigarettes

I was a God that made summer on your cheek

An astronaut among your breasts of Aphrodite

And they go, they go inside

Your memories are stars that

don't stop raining

We went late to look at the daylight

Time would fly with so much silliness

I would paint new freckles on your stomach

You would invent a way of loving me

I would conjure with Neruda and his words

A spell so you would never leave

And you did without notice that morning

In which the world was the corral of my misfortune

And you swore you would return some summer

To the lamppost, I swear I never left

No man ever missed you like this

No boy ever adored you like that

My beautiful girl you left in my pockets

A sad scent of kisses and cigarettes

I was a God who made summer on your cheek

An astronaut among your breasts of Aphrodite

And they go, they go inside

Your memories are stars that

don't stop raining

And they go, they go inside

Your memories are stars that

don't stop raining

Your stars never ever stop... raining