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Ellas*

[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. touched
  • 3. lit. loved me madly
  • 4. lit. her skin
  • 5. lit. lap
  • 6. lit. united
  • 7. lit. shivering
Original lyrics

Ellas

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Comments
FredaFreda
   Fri, 16/08/2013 - 20:46
5

Super!
You haven't done Nach in a while. I love their lyrics, so innovative and interesting. That's what makes them a challenge to translate, you did great.

Vimto12Vimto12
   Fri, 16/08/2013 - 21:52

hehe you have to really be in the mood to translate for nach xD if you notice anything that sounds odd in the english do let me know :)

FredaFreda
   Fri, 16/08/2013 - 22:01

Yeah, you need a lot of time, too.
I re-read it and honestly don't see anything that sounds odd to me.