Lyrics and translation Joan Manuel Serrat - La Carmeta

La Carmeta

Sola. Només li queda un gos
Trista com un "mai més"
Se la veu caminar
Pel barri xinès
Quan no fa fred i el dia és clar
A la Carmeta
És, com el barri, un record
Que s'esmuny pas a pas
I en l'ahir se'ns perd
Com un fanal de gas
O com un tramvia obert
És la Carmeta
Amb un gos vell, ple de sarna
L'abric menjat per les arnes
La boca vermella
I una flor a l'orella
Potser, enyorant l'Edèn
L'Arnau i el Bataclan
I les nits de cal Peret
Se li ha anat doblegant
L'esquena a poc a poquet
A la Carmeta
S'ha anat pansint dia a dia
Com la vella melodia
Que ningú no canta
Perquè els temps canvien
Quan vegis pel Paral·lel
A la vella i el gos
Li parles de llavors
Quan per sentir el seu cos
Potser tu l'haguessis omplert d'or
A la Carmeta
A la Carmeta

The Carmeta

Alone. All she has left is a dog
Sad as a "never again"
You can see her walking
Through Chinatown
When it's not cold and the day is bright
The Carmeta
Like the neighborhood, a memory
That slips away step by step
And in the past we lose ourselves
Like a gas lamp
Or like an open streetcar
It's the Carmeta
With an old dog, full of mange
Her coat eaten by moths
Red lips
And a flower in her ear
Perhaps longing for Eden
The Arnau and the Bataclan
And the nights at Cal Peret's
Her back has been bending
Little by little
The Carmeta
She has been fading day by day
Like an old melody
That no one sings anymore
Because times change
When you see her on Paral·lel
The old woman and the dog
Tell her about the old days
When perhaps you would have filled her with gold
When you felt her body
The Carmeta
The Carmeta