¿Era Esto La Vida? Lyrics English Translation by Zahara
Was this life?
It was the euphoria and the sparkle in the eyes,
All the things no one knew,
It was their name written with fire,
My skin burning,
It was a strange afternoon on Saturn,
A dark and lost 2020,
It was a debt, a stigma, a poem,
It was my chest beating, bare, silencing the problem.
Maybe life was this—
A room with the window open,
The rain coming in, wetting the floor,
A body pressed against another body.
Maybe life is just
Wanting to want everything
And fearing having it,
Maybe life is just that.
It was standing still for a while, biting the cigarette,
Releasing the sin,
It was shrinking the memory,
Training the conscience,
Practicing while looking at each other,
My desire brushing their hair,
My eyes shooting poison,
The door catching my fingers,
It was holding their organs,
It was continuing to wait,
It was saying “I love you.”
Maybe life was this—
A room with the window open,
The rain coming in, wetting the floor,
A body pressed against another body.
Maybe life is just
Wanting to want everything
And fearing having it,
Maybe life is just that.
It was the forbidden portrait,
The secret call,
The goodbye on the stairs,
The expansion and the borrowed pillow,
It was brushing in silence,
Keeping the secret,
Testing their words,
The applause and the hangover,
Being the one to set the traps,
Chatting about nothing,
Our love scattered between the sheets.
Maybe life was this—
A room with the window open,
The rain coming in, wetting the floor,
A body pressed against another body.
Maybe life is just
Wanting to want everything
And fearing having it,
Maybe life is just that.