La Primera Que Despierta [English translation]

The first to wake up

And the last to switch off

Always tired and alert

She takes care of everyone in the house

Her olive hands take care of

Somebody else's fever and the tears

Of those who mourns what is lost

Without having lost so much

She makes the bed and sighs

Checking what is pending

Her back is broken and yet she still takes care

And helps to do homework

And helps do homework

And who takes care of the one who takes care for us?

Who cares of her desires?

Who will comb her gray hair

And bandage her wounds?

Who gives her back the future,

The mornings without fatigue?

Who gives her back the days

With no rush, without that knot

Of guilt for getting up

Late, thinking of nothing?

Breakfast in bed

And life ahead

She takes care and covers the one who sleeps

While the night fades

And she kisses all the foreheads,

Hangs out the washed clothes

In her vineyard hands

The whole planet rocks

And she stops for a moment

To lay her head

On the shoulder that she takes care of,

In the darkest night,

Maybe it will save our lives

The lesson of her tenderness

The lesson of her tenderness