La niña y el mar [English translation]

With a flowery shawl,

With a little flamenco dress 1

The girl doesn't want to grow up

And she goes to the sea

Singing and dancing her things

And the untamed sea

Wants to kiss her,

But she doesn't want to

And he cries and tells her softly:

"Dance with my waves."

The girl dances some verses

For him

And the sea responds

With waves

And that two-beat rhythm

The sea wets her feet

And she drowns.

He slowly recedes

And comes back around again

Wanting to steal her shadow,

and he tells her softly

"Dance with my waves."

The girl and the sea

Don't even want to talk

When they are alone,

They prefer to be quiet

They prefer to dream

With the poppies.

The sea wants to love

And the girl wants to dance

And to be left alone,

And at dawn

He draws a profile

Of a new woman

Dancing with the shadows.

Awake for sixteen years

With hands that are seashells,

With footsteps that sound

Louder when they walk,

When the music

adorns them.

The girl growing up

forgets about the sea

and the sea that knows it

doesn't cry

he only says softly,

"Dance with my waves."

The happy girl

now feels like a woman.

She looks at herself in the mirror

and makes herself pretty.

There are so many dreams

that her eyes see

that she loves them all

and now

mortally wounded

the sea from afar

stopped his waves and cries

repeating softly:

"Dance with my waves."

The girl and the sea

don't even want to talk

when they're alone.

They prefer to be quiet

They prefer to dream

with the poppies.

The sea wants to love

and the girl wants to dance

and to be left alone,

And at dawn

he draws a silhouette

of that new woman

dancing with the shadows.

1. bata de cola is a flamenco skirt or dress with ruffles at the tail. http://www.flamencodressmaking.com/2010/12/bata-de-cola-skirt/