Translated by A. Z. Foreman - My Heart is in the East lyrics

My heart is in the east, and the rest of me at the edge of the west. How can I taste the food I eat? How can it give me pleasure? How can I keep my promise now, or fulfill the vows I've made While Zion remains in the Cross's reign, and I in Arab chains? With pleasure I would leave behind all the good things of grand Spain, If only I could gaze on the dust of our ruined Holy Place.