Luces de Bohemia para Elisa [English translation]

Bohemian lights were illuminating

As you were leaving the Academy

The clumsy walk

Of your feet disoriented

On both sides of reality

Dancing girl and I behind

From your steely calves

I was hanging my glances

As I was plotting

Where, how, how and and when

Can one approach a youthful lass

It's so hard to get the courage

And to decidedly cry

"Do you have the time, please?"

And today hanging by your laughter

I'm a madman in the cornice

Doing a balancing act for Elisa

From your tiny breasts

The minutes overflow

And make out of ten o'clock

An injustice

Bohemian lights in every tooth

You answered with a smile

"There's a clock right in front of you!

It's twenty to nine...

And at home they dine at ten o'clock...

Why don't you treat me to coffee?"

A backwards reversal

And Don Juan became Doña Ines

With more yearning that expertise

You unbutton my shirt

A kiss for every button for Elisa

And lost amid your hair

I'm a saint gone to Heaven

Without ever stepping into mass

Bohemian lights for Elisa

Bohemian lights for Elisa

And today hanging by your laughter

I'm a madman in the cornice

Doing a balancing act for Elisa

From your tiny breasts

The minutes overflow

And make out of ten o'clock

An injustice