Paroles et traduction Maria del Mar Bonet - Que volen aquesta gent?

Que volen aquesta gent?

De matinada han trucat
Són al replà de l'escala
La mare quan surt a obrir
Porta la bata posada

Què volen aquesta gent
Que truquen de matinada?

"El seu fill, que no és aquí?"
"N'és adormit a la cambra
Què li volen al meu fill?"
El fill mig es desvetllava

La mare ben poc en sap
De totes les esperances
Del seu fill estudiant
Que ben compromès n'estava

Dies fa que parla poc
I cada nit s'agitava
Li venia un tremolor
Tement un truc a trenc d'alba

Encara no ben despert
Ja sent viva la trucada
I es llença pel finestral
A l'asfalt d'una volada

Els que truquen resten muts
Menys un d'ells, potser el que mana
Que s'inclina pel finestral
Darrere xiscla la mare

De matinada han trucat
La llei una hora assenyala
Ara l'estudiant és mort
N'és mort d'un truc a trenc d'alba

What Do These People Want?

They knocked at the morning hour
They're on the staircase landing
The mother answers the door
Wearing only her dressing gown

What do these people want?
Knocking so early in the morning?

"Your son, is he not here?"
"He is still asleep in his room"
What do you want with my son?"
Her son had half awakened

His mother knows little
Of her son's fervent hopes
Who is a committed student
Deeply involved in the cause

Days have gone by with barely a word spoken
And every night he tosses and turns
A tremor in his body
Fearing a knock at the break of dawn

He is still barely awake
When the deadly ring of the knock
Sends him through the window
In one sudden motion down to the street below

The callers remain silent
Except for one, perhaps the leader
Who looks out the window
Behind him the mother cries out

They knocked at the morning hour
The police will arrive in the next hour
The student is now dead
His life lost to a knock at the break of dawn