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I’d Say It Was You

For many days my friends
had wanted to get me out of the house
and yesterday at night
they dragged me
to a new place
with home-made pizzas.
They really liked it:
there’s Italian music playing,
there are colourful chairs
around every table.
Someone orders
the best of wines à la carte.
And when I take the first sip,
there it hits me,
like the tip of a sword:
a voice I wasn’t expecting.
I’d say it was you,
a few tables further back,
dining with someone whom I don’t know.
I’d swear it was you;
you were talking about work
and you were laughing with the one
whom I don’t know.
And it’s so strange,
and it’s so absurd.
I daren’t turn my head;
I don’t want it to be you.
 
And I notice that my friends
drag on the conversation
and talk about summer
and I don’t know what about Formentera1.
I can only hear
a voice
that drives me into despair.
I remember you
in a black-and-white photo,
dancing in the street among the firecrackers.
I remember you
when we jumped over the fire2,
and the world was small,
and that love immense.
And it’s so strange,
and it’s so absurd.
I daren’t turn my head;
I don’t want it to be you.
 
You don’t know how many times
I thought back to that table3.
I hear you and I turn around
and I go to say hello.
I introduce myself
to the guy who accompanies you
and I tell you that you’re looking fine,
and I tell you that you’re really beautiful.
And the world disappears
with that glance.
What’s left is my fear, you and me.
And I see life taking another turn
and I tell you in a broken voice:
"I’d be so happy,
if we go home together"4.
 
  • 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formentera
  • 2. The Sant Joan tradition in Catalonia: if lovers jump seven times over the fire, holding each other’s hand, they’ll be happy ever after.
  • 3. ...and what's next is probably his imagination, kind of wishful thinking...
  • 4. This conditional phrase is ungrammatical, but so is the phrase in Catalan. I've translated it in the same manner.
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Diria que eres tu

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