Pablo Neruda - You Would Come lyrics

You have not made me suffer, merely wait. Those tangled hours, filled with serpents, when my heart stopped and I stifled, you would come along, you would come naked and scratched, bleeding you would reach my bed, my bride, and then all night we walked sleeping and when we woke up you were intact and new, as if the dark wind of dreams had newly given fire to your tresses and in wheat and silver had submerged your body and left it dazzling. I did not suffer, my love, I was only waiting for you. You had to change heart and vision after having touched the deep sea zone that my beast gave to you. You had to leave the water pure as a drop raised by a night wave. My bride, you had to die and be born, I was waiting for you. I did not suffer looking for you, I knew that you would come, a new woman with what I adore out of the one that I did not adore, with your eyes, your hands, and your mouth but with another heart, who was that beside me at dawn as if she had always been there to go on with me forever. [original Spanish text] No me has hecho sufrir sino esperar. Aquellas horas enmarañadas, llenas de serpientes, cuando se me caía el alma y me ahogaba, tú venías andando, tú venías desnuda y arañada, tú llegabas sangrienta hasta mi lecho, novia mía, y entonces toda la noche caminamos durmiendo y cuando despertamos eras intacta y nueva, como si el grave viento de los sueños de nuevo hubiera dado fuego a tu cabellera y en trigo y plata hubiera sumergido tu cuerpo hasta dejarlo deslumbrante. Yo no sufrí amor mío, yo sólo te esperaba. Tenías que cambiar de corazón y de mirada después de haber tocado la profunda zona de mar que te entregó mi pecho. Tenías que salir del agua pura como una gota levantada por una ola nocturna. Novia mía, tuviste que morir y nacer, yo te esperaba Yo no sufrí buscándote, sabía que vendrías, una nueva mujer con lo que adoro de la que no adoraba, con tus ojos, tus manos y tu boca pero con otro corazón que amaneció a mi lado como si siempre hubiera estado allí para seguir conmigo para siempre.