Río Abajo [English translation]

I'm water, I'm life

I'm the mother of the crystal fountain

I'm a musical song of keys

I'm the key to this world and its mixture

I'm the rain that gives you the downpour,

the permanent rainfall, true love

I'm the volcano in the sky, the rising lava

that runs through the ice fields

I'm the daughter of the earth, I'm the mother who

grows the fruits and their sowing

I'm the dew that sprinkles instantly

the sunbeams a piercing rainbow

I'm sweet, I'm salty

I'm the feather in the Andean arrow with its dance

I'm the hope of my people

I'm the unbroken promise and the blood of this soil

I'm solace, I'm the cure

I'm the purest figure

I'm the snow, I'm the fog

I'm the cascade that passes as a waterfall

the sudden stream of life that draws us

I'm everyone's skin

I'm the snowflake you cry from your eyes

I'm that force that accelerates in the center of the bud

where the seed is born

You can't put a name on me, you can't capture me

My love is too enormous

Chains don't hold me, I don't fit in your containers

Nor do your surprises trap me

And though you want to control me

I flow downstream, you can't dominate me

Your bottles don't contain me

I give water from the mountain range

There's no miner who can extract me

There's no way your irrigation can even rob me

I carry fertile abundance in my luggage

I come to share my life on this journey

There's no force that surpasses my nature

Nor any machine that stops my skill

I sang like this, the grandmother lives, whispering to you...

I'm water, I'm life

I'm the mother of the crystal fountain

I'm a musical song of keys

I'm the key to this world and its mixture

I'm the rain that gives you the downpour,

the permanent rainfall, true love

I'm the volcano in the sky, the rising lava

that runs through the ice fields

I want to love toward the sea where the sun hides,

toward the horizon where man falls,

I want to see the titanic star,

where the rain bears dreams