Compay Segundo - Fidelidad - translation of the lyrics into English

Lyrics and translation Compay Segundo - Fidelidad




Fidelidad
Fidelity
Qué terrible es vivir
How dreadful it is to live
Una vida de fidelidad
A life of fidelity
Y esperar el regreso
And to await the return
De aquello que no ha de volver.
Of that which will not come back.
Contemplando la barca
Contemplating the boat
Que llega y luego se va
That comes and then leaves
Como una sombra
Like a shadow
Tras un cuerpo de mujer.
After the body of a woman.
Todos vieron amores
Everyone has seen loves
Que alegran su vista al volver,
That gladden their eyes when they return,
Golondrinas viajeras
Traveling swallows
Que vuelven de nuevo a su hogar.
That return again to their homes.
Pero yo como una alma fatal,
But I, like a helpless soul,
Contemplando la noche y el mar.
Contemplate the night and the sea.
Sólo que jamás
I only know that never
Volverá mi mujer ideal.
Will my ideal woman return.
Qué terrible es vivir
How dreadful it is to live
Una vida de fidelidad
A life of fidelity
Y esperar el regreso
And to await the return
De aquello que no ha de volver.
Of that which will not come back.
Contemplando la barca
Contemplating the boat
Que llega y luego se va
That comes and then leaves
Como una sombra
Like a shadow
Tras un cuerpo de mujer.
After the body of a woman.
Todos vieron amores
Everyone has seen loves
Que alegran su vista al volver,
That gladden their eyes when they return,
Golondrinas viajeras
Traveling swallows
Que vuelven de nuevo a su hogar.
That return again to their homes.
Pero yo como una alma fatal,
But I, like a helpless soul,
Contemplando la noche y el mar.
Contemplate the night and the sea.
Sólo que jamás
I only know that never
Volverá mi mujer ideal.
Will my ideal woman return.





Writer(s): Giraldo Piloto, Alberto Vega


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