Sombra y luz [English translation]

Today I wake up like a shipwrecked person

Alone and soaked in the scent of the sea

As if I were in another hemisphere

And I wasn't able to sail to you any more

And I've leant out of my window

As if what I were to see behind it were mine

But landscapes, my love don't belong to anyone 1

However much I look at you, you'll never be mine

I'll only confess it once

There's something in you to declare

Something that escapes me in melancholy

The wave that learnt to fly

And it's just that love isn't perfect

It's an uncertain passageway

With its light and its shadow

This is how small our love is

It's an uncertain landscape

With its face and its cross

We aren't prepared for all this

We used to be, but not any more

Today our love without prospects

Is like a blank verse

Uncertain, with its light and with its shadow

Today I've woken up like a shipwrecked person

But there are areas where the sun shines

Another lamp-post turns off and dawn stirs

The moon is alone, out on the balcony

And so I finally realise

That I only want to sail

And something lights up inside my body 2

The waves don't know how to swim

Because love isn't perfect

It's an uncertain passageway

With its light and its shadow

And it's just that love moves3in the wind

It always moves, an open sea

With its light and with its shadow

We're not ready for all this

We used to be, but not any more

Today our over is no longer ours

It's an uncertain passageway

With its light and its shadow

And its just that the love that I want

Is beautiful like a harbour

Amidst the light and the shadow

From the light and from the shadow

1. lit. they don't have an owner 2. lit. anatomy 3. lit. goes