Ternura [English translation]

Dearest,

So much time without knowing anything about you

I've grown old waiting for the moment

To find you again

Dearest,

If you knew how much I missed you

How many nights I dreamed awake

I called for you again and again

Everything is so different

Ever since you left

Nothing has given me back that (feeling of)

Mutual understanding

Today I quickly find

In a moment of love

Of an empty, cold love without dreams

Without mystery and excitement

Hardly natural

Dearest,

If you could only imagine

The emptiness that lies in my hands

And how clumsy they are

I don't find that music that

Your voice was when you talked

About simple things I never wanted to listen to

I was so ignorant that I never could

Understand the value of a kiss

And I ruined everything

I sought to become a man

In a bigger bed

And I lost the only thing that had any value at all

Your tenderness, your caress

All of your warmth

Forgive me

I don't know if you remain the same

It's possible that pain and age changed you

Don't talk to me, for

I'd rather remember you as you were

I'd rather call you "tenderness" (dearest)

Over seeing you again