האישה שאיתי [HaIsha Sh'Eiti] [English translation]

The woman who is with me does not insist

on washing her body in a sacred pool1

"She is not for you", my mother mumbles

and my father says she is as thin as a skeleton

but she is more real than all of us

it is love like in the times from before we were born

only i know

The woman who is with me does not insist

that i pick another rose for her every night

The woman who is with me is a fruit of The Garden Of Eden

in my soul like a string she quivers

my friends make eyes at her

and my enemies raise their hands in defeat2

she will envelop me in softness and fragrance

and afterwards will warm my body with hers

and i whisper to her

The woman who is with me is a fruit of heaven

slipping over my face like water over stone

To the woman who is with me all of me is addicted

and she also sowed in the fields that i plowed

in the morning i awake only to her

in the darkness i search for her lips

i am hers now and all that was for me

the friends, the dogs, the "hook-ups", the games

on all I gave up

poor Juanito...

To the woman who is with me all of me is addicted

but do not reveal to her what i have said

do not reveal to her what i have said

slipping over my face like water over stone

1. reference to a Mikvah, a Jewish purifying ritual bath. In other words, she is not religious or chaste so not a good fit for her son2. lit: raise their two hands