Cerca del mar Lyrics in English Jorge Drexler
Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Cerca del mar by Jorge Drexler from Spanish to English.
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Una bolsa de leche encallada en la arena
A bag of milk stranded in the sand
Un murmullo azul como un cascabel
A blue murmur like a rattle
Un viento salado que se mete en las venas
A salty wind that gets into the veins
Una algarabía estira, estira la piel
A merriment stretches, stretches the skin
(Desde el sol caía un velo blanco, luz del mediodía)
(From the sun a white veil fell, noon light)
Cerca del mar
Near the sea
Toda piel se vuelve presa del yodo
All skin becomes prey to iodine
Toda bisagra se vuelve a herrumbrar
Every hinge turns to rust
Todo el mundo dice pasar de todo
Everyone says pass everything
Y todo el mundo vuelve, vuelve a probar
And everyone comes back, tries again
(Una casa blanca se va hundiendo sola entre las dunas)
(A white house is sinking alone among the dunes)
Cerca del mar, cerca del mar
Near the sea, near the sea
Una vez se fueron hasta la playa
Once they went to the beach
Una noche antes de Carnaval
One night before Carnival
Una vez se pasaron de la raya
Once they crossed the line
Todo el año para rememorar
All year to reminisce
(El viento llevaba una guitarra lejos en la noche)
(The wind carried a guitar far into the night)
Cerca del mar, cerca del mar
Near the sea, near the sea
Cerca del mar, cerca del mar
Near the sea, near the sea
Una sombra crece en el horizonte
A shadow grows on the horizon
Una carpa vuela en el temporal
A carp flies in the storm
Los bañistas como pueden se esconden
Bathers hide as best they can
Cargan con lo que pudieron salvar
They carry what they could salvage
(Ese mar no es agua y sal, es sangre verde desbocada)
(That sea is not water and salt, it is runaway green blood)
Una rastafari del barrio Pocitos
A Rastafarian from the Pocitos neighborhood
Flota en el sopor de la grappamiel
Float in the torpor of grappamiel
Prueba la madera de un entrepiso
Test the wood of a mezzanine
Haciendo el amor en puntas de pie
Making love on tiptoes
(Todo brillo es oro bajo el lente leve del verano)
(All glitter is gold under the mild lens of summer)
Cerca del mar, cerca del mar
Near the sea, near the sea
Cerca del mar, cerca del mar
Near the sea, near the sea
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