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With You
I don't want a civilized love,
with receipts and scenes on the couch,
I don't want you to travel to the past,
And to come back from the marketplace,
Wanting to cry.
I don't want any neighbour with their Mum's stew.
I don't want to sow nor to share,
I don't want any Valentine's Day,
Or a Happy Birthday.
I don't want to carry your luggage,
I don't want you to choose my shampoo,
I don't want to move to another planet,
Nor to cut my horse-tail,
Nor to make a toast for your sake.
I don't want Sunday afternoons,
I don't want a swing in the garden,
What I want - coward heart
Is for you to die for me.
And to die with you if you kill yourself.
And to kill myself along with you if you die,
Because when loves don't die away, they kill,
Because loves that kill never die.
I don't want to save for tomorrow,
Don't ask me to make ends meet,
I don't want to eat an apple,
Twice a week,
Not being hungry at all.
I don't want greenhouse heat,
I don't want to kiss your scar,
I don't want Paris under the pouring rain
Nor Venice without you.
Don't wait for me at noon at the court,
Don't tell me "let's start again"
I don't want free or busy,
No flesh or sin1
No pride or mercy.
I don't want to know why you did it,
I don't want with you nor without you,
What I want, sad-eyed girl,
Is for you to die for me.
And to die with you if you kill yourself.
And to kill myself along with you if you die,
Because when loves don't die away, they kill,
Because loves that kill never die.
- 1. I think there's a pun here, since "fish" is "pescado" and "sin" is "pecado"; therefore the contrast "meat vs. fish/flesh vs. sin
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This is an edited and corrected version of another translator's work. I changed some things that are just as valid in his translation. Overall, the original translation is great! I didn't even know many of the words that he translated.