Nina e Sara [English translation]

It's a scorching June in '87

Even the stones were thirsty

Nina looks out of her window

She is sixteen and she looks at the world go by

Between the heat and the mirage of the scalding asphalt

She meets a gaze and she feels like burning

She can't breath, it's not natural

What she's feeling feels wrong to her

Oh Nina, you're still a girl

You'll learn how to love

Oh mother, leave me alone now

You don't, you don't, you don't

You don't really know what it means

You got married just to fix

To defend me from bitter tongues

I don't, I don't, I don't

I don't want to pretend it's not special

I don't expect to know, I expect nothing

I'd just want to feel normal for one time

And so Nina found out about love

Between ears of wheat and skin of salt

And lips laid in soft hands

In Sara's face, the image of summer

And it wasn't right and it wasn't wrong

To her it was love, just love

But to her mother a deadly sin

Finally, for Nina, a forbidden love

Oh Nina, you're a girl

You don't know what love is

Oh mother, let me discover it

You don't, you don't, you don't

You don't really know what it means

You got married just to fix

To defend me from bitter tongues

I don't, I don't, I don't

I don't want to pretend it's not special

I don't expect to know, I expect nothing

I'd just want to feel normal for one time

Summer ended and Sara, before leaving,

Saw Nina peering from the window

No one knew what they were thinking

Someone heard them talk:

"I can't guarantee you happiness

But I can spare you the sadness"

Then they saw them together

Leaving together, ah

They saw them together

Together, then they saw them together

Leaving together, ah

They saw them together

They saw them together