After I Met You

(Estribillo)
Since I found you, I need nothing more,
You’re the light I live for,
All that’s bright, all that’s real,
In you, I find what the world can’t reveal.

[Verso 1]
After I met you,
Everything else seems in vain:
The sun, to brighten my days,
And April, to bring its roses again.

(Estribillo)
Since I found you, I need nothing more,
You’re the light I live for,
All that’s bright, all that’s real,
In you, I find what the world can’t reveal.

[Verso 2]
Let the dawn find a new task,
I no longer need its rays,
For I know a light that wakes
And brings shadows to life in its ways.

(Estribillo)
Since I found you, I need nothing more,
You’re the light I live for,
All that’s bright, all that’s real,
In you, I find what the world can’t reveal.

[Verso 3]
Let those who love stars seek night,
But my universe feels whole,
For my astrology sees
Their darkness, dim, and cold.

(Estribillo)
Since I found you, I need nothing more,
You’re the light I live for,
All that’s bright, all that’s real,
In you, I find what the world can’t reveal.

[Verso 4]
The East can exhaust its mines
On the greedy who break them apart,
But I enrich my sight with more gold
That’s yours alone to impart.

(Estribillo)
Since I found you, I need nothing more,
You’re the light I live for,
All that’s bright, all that’s real,
In you, I find what the world can’t reveal.

Something more

[Verse]

I want to be in your life

Something more than a moment,

Something more than a shadow,

Something more than a desire.

I want to be, within you,

An unerasable trace

A constant memory,

And a single truth.

[Chorus]

I want to be more than a moment’s grace,

A timeless mark, your heart’s embrace.

To pulse in your prayers

With the fear of being left behind.

To be, in all and through all,

A part of you.

An endless thirst

For caresses and kisses;

But not a habit

Of always being near.

[Chorus]

I want to be more than a moment’s grace,

A timeless mark, your heart’s embrace.

[Instrumental]

[Verse]

I want to be in your life

A sorrow of absence,

A pain of distance,

An eternal longing.

Something more than an image,

Something more than a dream

That, conquering roads,

Arrives, passes, and goes away.

[Chorus]

I want to be more than a moment’s grace,

A timeless mark, your heart’s embrace.

[Instrumental]

To be the tears in your eyes,

And laughter on your lips.

To be the end and the beginning,

Darkness and light,

In earth and in heaven,

In life and in death,

To be, just as in my life,

You have come to be.

[Chorus]

I want to be more than a moment’s grace,

A timeless mark, your heart’s embrace.

To look at you

[Verse]

My tactic is

To look at you,

To learn who you are,

To love you as you are.

My tactic is

To talk to you

And listen closely,

To build a bridge with words

That nothing can destroy.

[Chorus]

My plan is simple, steady, clear—

To hold you close, to keep you near.

My tactic is

To stay in your memory,

I don’t know how or

Under what excuse,

But to stay within you.

My tactic is

To be honest

And to know you are too,

To make sure we don’t trade

In illusions,

So that between us

There’s no curtain,

No chasm.

[Chorus]

My plan is simple, steady, clear—

To hold you close, to keep you near.

[Instrumental]

[Verse]

My strategy, however,

Is deeper and more

Simple.

My strategy is

That one day, somehow,

I don’t know how or

Under what excuse,

You’ll finally need me.

[Chorus]

My plan is simple, steady, clear—

To hold you close, to keep you near.

I’d trade a kingdom

Lady of the darkened veil,

In purple robes devoutly clad,

For a kiss from you, so frail,

Boabdil would give all he had.

He’d trade his finest warrior’s lance,

Of Zenete’s boldest pride,

And with it, the fresh green glance

Of Darro’s riverbank beside.

[Chorus]

For a kiss from your lips, rare and true,

I’d trade a kingdom, all for you.

He’d give the joyous games of bulls,

And if it lay within his hand,

With the Moorish dance in full,

The courage of the Christian land.

Oriental rugs, the finest wares,

Helms and armor, incense rare,

And if your worth surpasses theirs,

Even forty riders there.

[Chorus]

For a kiss from your lips, rare and true,

I’d trade a kingdom, all for you.

For your eyes are stars that rise,

Dawn’s light stirs from their gaze;

They lift the Orient's bright guise,

And the world basks in their rays.

Your lips are a ruby bright,

Divided in grace, a gem in two;

They plucked it from God’s crown of light,

Fashioned wholly for you.

From your lips, that smile flows—

Your tongue, with peace it sings…

Soft as morning’s breeze, it shows,

On gentle, purple wings.

[Chorus]

For a kiss from your lips, rare and true,

I’d trade a kingdom, all for you.

 

Oh, how fair a Nazarene

For an Eastern harem’s delight,

With loose, dark hair’s lustrous sheen

Against a neck of crystal white.

On a bed of velvet lying,

In fragrant clouds she rests,

Wrapped in white veils softly sighing,

Of Mahomet’s daughters, blessed.

[Chorus]

For a kiss from your lips, rare and true,

I’d trade a kingdom, all for you.

Come to Córdoba, my Christian rose,

As sultana reign with grace;

And your sultan shall be, fair and close,

A humble slave before your face.

He’ll give you wealth beyond compare,

In Tunisian gowns adorned—

But with beauty, could you dare

To pay the worth he has sworn?

[Chorus]

Lady of the darkened veil,

For a kiss from you so frail,

Boabdil would give his land;

And I, my Christian queen, for you

Would gladly give a thousand heavens, too,

Were they in my hand.

She moves like morning light

 

[Verse]

As she passes, she greets, and through the breeze,

Her voice, early like dawn’s first tease,

In the square of light from a windowpane,

Fogs not the glass but breath’s soft strain.

She's early like the tolling bell,

A fairytale, an unbreakable spell;

And when she cuts through time’s fine thread,

The morning spills its white blood, softly spread.

[Chorus]

She moves like morning light, soft and bright,

In every glance, a dance, taking flight.

[Instrumental]

[Verse]

Dressed in blue, she heads to school,

Walking or floating? The line’s not clear;

A breeze so light, she disappears—

In morning's blue, it’s hard to know,

If she’s the breeze, or the dawn’s glow,

Or the girl who passes, soft and slow.

[Chorus]

She moves like morning light, soft and bright,

In every glance, a dance, taking flight.

[Instrumental]

[Verse]

Dressed in blue, she heads to school,

Walking or floating? The line’s not clear;

A breeze so light, she disappears—

In morning's blue, it’s hard to know,

If she’s the breeze, or the dawn’s glow,

Or the girl who passes, soft and slow.

[Chorus]

She moves like morning light, soft and bright,

In every glance, a dance, taking flight.

Cover

[Verse]

Cover, my love, the heavens of my lips

With that fierce foam of frenzied white,

Jasmine that sears, yet blooms so bright,

Sprung from coral’s crimson tips.

Intoxicate me, love, with your salty bloom,

Your sharpened flower that knows no doom,

Folding its fury in a crowned delight,

A clove of fire unleashed in flight.

[Chorus]

Cover me, my love, in petals so rare,

In waves that burn yet dance in the air.

[Verse]

Oh, let your flow embrace so tight,

That snowy rush through flesh’s gate,

To watch your slender neck release,

As stars and jasmine drip and chase,

Falling in dewdrops, light and sweet.

[Chorus]

Cover me, my love, in petals so rare,

In waves that burn yet dance in the air.

I love you deeply

 

[Verse]

I love you at ten in the morning, at eleven,

And at noon. I love you with all my soul and

With all my body, sometimes, on rainy afternoons.

But by two in the afternoon, or three, when I

Start to think about us, and you think about

Lunch, or the daily grind, or the joys you lack,

I begin to hate you, quietly, with

Half the hatred I keep for myself.

Then I go back to loving you, when we lie down and

I feel that you were made for me, that somehow

Your knee, your belly, tell me so, my hands

Convince me, and there's no better place

For me to come to, for me to go, than your

Body. You come to me, whole,

And for a moment, we both disappear,

Diving into the mouth of God, until I tell you

I’m hungry or tired.

[Chorus]

I love you deeply, fiercely, then,

Hating softly, once again.

[Verse]

Every day I love and hate you helplessly.

And there are also days, hours, when I

Don’t know you, when you’re as distant as another man’s woman.

I worry about other men, I worry about

Myself, my sorrows distract me.

It’s likely I don’t think of you for a long time.

So you see—who could love you less than I do, my love?

[Chorus]

I love you deeply, fiercely, then,

Hating softly, once again.

I will fill

 I will fill your time with my time,

I’ll lock my gaze within your eyes,
I’ll breathe only with your breath,
I’ll give you everything and nothing, all at once.

I will fill my hands with your body,
I will cover your body with my kisses,
And in my kisses, I’ll cage your lips:
My love will be the wildest, not the wisest.

I will fill your inbox with messages,
With my verses, a bit cheesy, but sincere,
I’ll try to love you the best I can,
And make you a little happy—or so I hope, my dear.

When you are mine (cancion)

[Verse]

When you are mine,

I’ll throw a party inside my head,

The sad ghosts within will dance with joy,

My sordid thoughts will all go out to feast,

And at last, my fantasies will explode in bliss.

[Verse]

My love, when you are mine,

I’ll cast away the sadness from my soul forever,

And even a bit of my old melancholy.

I’ll instantly soften my useless harshness,

And regain the laughter I once had.

[Chorus]

When you are mine,

The world will finally shine,

All my dreams will come alive,

In your love, I'll truly thrive.

We’ll chase the stars, we’ll kiss the night,

Together we’ll set the skies alight.

When you are mine,

Everything will be divine.

[Instrumental]

[Verse]

I promise you, my sky, that when you are mine,

I’ll guard your love like the greatest treasure,

Like a devoted worshiper of your newfound joy,

I will keep watch so the flame

Of our great passion is never cold.

[Chorus]

When you are mine,

The world will finally shine,

All my dreams will come alive,

In your love, I'll truly thrive.

We’ll chase the stars, we’ll kiss the night,

Together we’ll set the skies alight.

When you are mine,

Everything will be divine.

[Instrumental]

[Chorus]

When you are mine,

The world will finally shine,

All my dreams will come alive,

In your love, I'll truly thrive.

We’ll chase the stars, we’ll kiss the night,

Together we’ll set the skies alight.

When you are mine,

Everything will be divine.

In the dark

 [Verse]

I watch you in the dark,
Your face outlined against the night.
Within the contours of your features,
I see the endless plains of your brow,
The warm wells of your eyes,
The soft hills of your cheeks
With paths my kisses traced,
Leading to the loving spring
Of your lips.

[Verse]
I watch you in the dark,
I see your eyes,
And in them, I see your love, I feel your desire,
Your gaze brings a light
That draws me in, and I surrender to your kiss.
I see your eyes,
I see my feelings in their mirror,
I see myself, but different,
Purer, more honest, without flaws,
I see reflected in them my love and my madness.
I see your eyes,
And I close mine, silent, beneath a kiss.

Museum of my room

 [Verse]

Welcome,
To the museum of my room.
You cannot touch a thing,
Just look from the corner gloom.
Nothing here is for sale,
It’s impossible to price
What is preserved within this tale.

[Chorus]
Here, you’ll see displayed,
Everything that she once touched,
Every place where she had been,
Every spot where she kissed me so much.
Here, the air is kept untouched,
The air my love once breathed.

[Verse]
This is my chair,
Where she often sat down.
There she rested,
Crossed her legs, and with her gaze
Stirred my desire, no sound.
Sitting there, my friends,
She spoke to me both much and few,
As I held her close, embracing all we knew.

[Chorus]
Look at this glass,
Where her lips once sipped.
It must not be cleaned,
There might still be
A trace of where her lips had kissed.

[Verse]
This is the bed,
Narrow,
Perfect
For keeping us close in its embrace.
Here she gave herself,
This bed, my friends,
Though it looks so small
(And by physics it truly is),
Was for us immense, after all.
This bed holds her scent,
Its sheets wrapped her form,
Its pillows held her up
As she gave me her love, so warm.

[Chorus]
And this is me,
The last piece in this display,
Trapped in the days
When I still had her with me,
In that time so happy,
A place from which I’ll never be free.

[Instrumental]

[Verse]
This is the bed,
Narrow,
Perfect
For keeping us close in its embrace.
Here she gave herself,
This bed, my friends,
Though it looks so small
(And by physics it truly is),
Was for us immense, after all.
This bed holds her scent,
Its sheets wrapped her form,
Its pillows held her up
As she gave me her love, so warm.

[Chorus]
And this is me,
The last piece in this display,
Trapped in the days
When I still had her with me,
In that time so happy,
A place from which I’ll never be free.

I love you

 I love it when you smile

And I kiss you without haste,

Then after the kiss, once more,

Your smile is born again in grace.

I love you after the shower,
For you smell of jasmine bright,
Though the water on your face
Has washed away the crimson light.

I love you when the night falls,
As twilight wraps you in its hue,
I take your hands into my own
And in the dusk, I embrace you.

I love you in the morning's glow,
Before you're fully awake,
And I see last night’s kisses
Still lingering on your lips to take.