3. LAS CIUDADES (THE CITIES)
Lyrics & Music: José Alfredo Jiménez Sandoval
I saw you arrive
and I felt the presence of an unknown being;
I saw you arrive
and I felt something I had never felt
I tried to love you
and your love wasn’t fire, wasn’t light;
the distances separate cities,
the cities destroy customs.
I told you goodbye
and you asked me to never
forget you;
I told you goodbye
and I felt once more the strange strength of your love.
And my entire soul was covered with ice
and my entire body filled with cold
and I was on the verge of changing your world,
of changing your world for my own world.
I told you goodbye
and you asked me to never
forget you;
I told you goodbye
and I felt from your love
again the same strange power.
And my entire soul covered itself with ice
and my entire body filled with cold
and I was on the verge of changing your world,
of changing your world for my own world
8. UN MUNDO RARO (A STRANGE WORLD)
Lyrics & Music: José Alfredo Jiménez Sandoval
When they talk to you of love
and of illusions
and they offer you the sun
and the whole sky
if you remember me
don’t mention it
because you will feel
true love
And if they want to learn
about your past
it’s necessary to tell a lie
say you come from afar
from a strange world
that you don’t know crying
that you don’t understand love
and that you’ve never loved
Because wherever I go,
I will talk of you, my love
like a golden dream
forgetting the rancor
I won’t say that your good-bye
left me hurt
And if they want to learn
about my past
it’s necessary to tell another lie,
I will tell them I arrived
from a strange world,
that I don’t know of pain
that I triumphed in love
and that I’ve never cried
I have never cried.