Con una rosa [English translation]

With a rose you said

Come look for me

The whole evening long

I'll be alone

And I -for you

I die for you-

With a rose I came to you

White as the clouds from afar

As the bitter night passed in vain

As the foam that froths upon the sea

It isn't white the rose I bring you

Yellow as the fever that consumes me

As the liqueur that bewitches words

As the poison that drips from your breast

It isn't yellow the rose that I bring you

In the air the roses sigh, expire

Petal by petal they show the colour

But the flower that alone grows in the bramble

White is not pain

Red is not love

The flower it's only the gift I bring you

Pink as a small-time novel

As the surrender that emerges on the face

As the wait that weighs on the lips

It isn't pink the rose I bring you

As the purple that sets the morning ablaze

As the blade that heats up your pillow

As the thorn that draws near to the heart

This red is the rose I bring you

Crystal tears wet it

Tears and wine shed along the path

Drop by drop, lost in the rain

Drop by drop, they dried up its heart

Bring me then the most beautiful flower

The one that lasts more than love itself

The flower that alone doesn't mirror the bramble

Perfect of pain

Perfect of its heart

Perfect of the gift it makes of itself