Below, I translated the lyrics of the song El Puente De Los Suspiros by Juan Carlos Baglietto from Spanish to English.
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The Bridge of Sighs Lyrics
Verse 1
Puentecito escondido entre follajes y entre añoranzas
Little bridge hidden among the foliage and amidst yearnings
Puentecito tendido sobre la herida de una quebrada
Little bridge stretched over the wound of a ravine
Retoña en pensamientos tus maderos
Your wood bursts forth in thoughts
Se aferra el corazón a tus balaustres
The heart clings to your balusters
Puentecito dormido entre el murmullo de la querencia
Little bridge sleeping amidst the murmur of affection
Abrazado al recuerdo, barrancos y escalinatas
Hugging the memory, ravines and stairways
Puente de los suspiros, quiero que guardes
Bridge of Sighs, I want you to keep
En tu grato silencio mi confidencia
In your pleasant silence, my confidence
Chorus 1
Y es mi puente un poeta que me espera
And my bridge is a poet who is waiting for me
Con su quieta madera cada tarde
With its quiet wood every afternoon
Y suspira y suspiro
And sighs and I sigh
Me recibe y le dejo
I am received and I leave him/her
Solo, sobre su herida, su quebrada
Alone, about his wound, his fracture
Y las viejas consejas van contando
And the old tales keep telling
De la injusta distancia del amante
Of the unjust distance of the lover
Sus arrestos vencidos
Their defeated arrests
Vencidos por los ficus
Defeated by the ficuses
De enterradas raíces en su amada
From buried roots in her beloved
Es mi puente un poeta que me espera
My bridge is a poet who waits for me
Con su quieta madera cada tarde
With its quiet wood every afternoon
Y suspira y suspiro
And sighs and I sigh
Me recibe y le dejo
I am received and I leave him/her
Solo, sobre su herida, su quebrada
Alone, about his wound, his fracture
Y las viejas consejas van contando
And the old tales keep telling
De la injusta distancia del amante
Of the unjust distance of the lover
Sus arrestos vencidos
Their defeated arrests
Vencidos por los ficus
Defeated by the ficuses
De enterradas raíces en su amada
From buried roots in her beloved
Outro
Puentecito dormido entre el murmullo de la querencia
Little bridge sleeping amidst the murmur of affection
Abrazado al recuerdo, barrancos y escalinatas
Hugging the memory, ravines and stairways
Puente de los suspiros, quiero que guardes
Bridge of Sighs, I want you to keep
En tu grato silencio mi confidencia
In your pleasant silence, my confidence