Ellas [English translation]

[Nach]

My first love I met when I was born, Light was her name.

Her great power always made me see life

So lucid and so beautiful. She taught me to grow

Playing at counting stars every night.

I thought myself dumbstruck when Elation1tugged at2 my teenage heart,

I fell hopelessly in love.

She was so lovely, my favourite flower, my other half.

She told me that dreams also become reality.

Lost in the city I saw Indifference walking around absent-mindedly,

Every day, without knowing that I existed.

Her far-away look among people didn't entice me,

Too cold. Something told me: "Don't trust her".

And meanwhile, Melancholy was madly in love with me3.

Every night she appeared in my bed half-naked and embraced me.

She poked at my scars, I sobbed.

She4 didn't give me happy days and I left her.

I forgot her charm and her arms5

Because before long I met Passion, it was like love at first sight

Intertwined6 every morning, my beloved,

Always making love to me between damp sheets.

[Ismael Serrano]

Ellas, a balm for your wound.

The life flickering7 in a star.

Fireflies that tremble in your chest.

The remains of a shipwreck.

Scaffolding that rebuilds memories

The heaven in which prisoners dream.

[Nach]

I met Perseverance shortly after,

Her fragrance drew me in and from that moment I got to know her

Her self esteem and discipline told me: "Don't give up,

You'll have a place at the top with the best."

But I suffered from love sickness when Envy looked at me in passing.

Another vampire that kisses [you] and makes you bleed

When she spoke, she lied, she wanted to kill my faith.

She put poison on the tongues of those who I came across.

It was because of that that I cried along with Nostalgia every evening,

Feeling like a coward if she came to caress me.

Until one day Loneliness knocked at my door and paralysed me,

She embraced me, destroying my skeleton.

And I saw the months go by, I didn't want to see anyone.

Until I found Hope waiting for me in the street

She talked to me of a future and to fight for it,

She said to me: "Freedom awaits you, she will always be faithful to you".

[Ismael Serrano]

Ellas, a balm for your wound.

The life flickering in a star.

Fireflies that tremble in your chest.

The remains of a shipwreck.

Scaffolding that rebuilds memories

The heaven in which prisoners dream

Like old lovers, they return from the oblivion

You've already slept in their arms, but everything is new.

The act of living leaves consequences, ellas.

And like a smooth liquor they envelop you.

It's always late when they've gone.

Defeated and reborn in the disaster,

You looked for their light amongst the rubble,

Everything will be fine and even though it hurts,

Take their hands and fly with them.

[Nach]

Ellas. They left their mark on me,

Love and abandonment, feelings that I lived through.

Thus arousing charms, opening up passions and wounds.

Ellas, lovers for an instant or for a lifetime.

Ellas, stars and thorns.

Beautiful ladies who love you or kill you.

I found them in corners, they shone like diamonds.

Ellas, lovers for a lifetime or for an instant.

[Ismael Serrano]

Like old lovers, they return from the oblivion

You've already slept in their arms, but everything is new.

The act of living leaves consequences.

Ellas...

1. or 'excitement/thrill'2. lit. touched3. lit. loved me madly4. lit. her skin5. lit. lap6. lit. united7. lit. shivering