Mediterraneo [English translation]

If you're happy with it

Never betray it

This enormous spirit of water

That illuminates the sailors

Where the sea announces the rock

And the rock announces another sea

That rock is only an island

Where you can pause

Thousand-year-old populations

Have passed by here

On a freighter to defend

Their dignity

And the dark-skinned lord

The Bourbon prince

Still wears on his armor

The smell of lemons, the smell of lemons

The Mediterranean, Mediterranean

The Mediterranean, Mediterranean

If you'll be faithful to it

It'll accompany you

Throughout the long course of your life

Between peninsulas and cities

Between joy and defeat

Victory and pain

Your body will have its charm

Your skin will carry its smell

And up from Tangier* to Gibraltar

Between the continents, the sea

Is the fake and motionless Atlantic

You dream of stealing

And so many stories are concealed in the ports

Behind the white houses

Of fishermen made from hard fibres

Almost smelling of the Orient

Almost smelling of the Orient...

The Mediterranean, Mediterranean

The Mediterranean, Mediterranean

The Mediterranean, Mediterranean

The Mediterranean, Mediterranean

*. a city in northwestern Morocco on the coast at the western entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar, where the Mediterranean Sea meets the Atlantic Ocean