Pare
Joan Manuel Serrat| Original | English Version by Gustavo Sierra Fernández |
| PARE | FATHER |
| Pare digueu-me què li han fet al riu que ja no canta. Rellisca com un barb mort sota un pam d'escuma blanca. | Father, tell me what have they done to the river that it’s not singing. It slips like a barbel dead upon an inch of white foam. |
| Pare que el riu ja no és el riu. Pare abans que torni l'estiu amagui tot el que és viu. | Father, the river is not the river anymore. Father, before the summer comes back hide everything that is living. |
| Pare digueu-me què li han fet al bosc que no hi ha arbres. A l'hivern no tindrem foc ni a l'estiu lloc per aturar-se. | Father, tell me what have they done to the forest for there is no trees. In winter we’ll have no fire neither in summer a place to stop by. |
| Pare que el bosc ja no és el bosc. Pare abans de que no es faci fosc ompliu de vida el rebost. | Father, the forest is not the forest anymore. Father, before it gets dark fill with life the pantry. |
| Sense llenya i sense peixos, pare, ens caldrà cremar la barca, llaurar el blat entre les enrunes, pare i tancar amb tres panys la casa i deia vostè... | Without wood and without fishes, father, we’ll must burn the boat, mow the wheat between the ruins, father, and close the house with three bolts and you were saying… |
| Pare si no hi ha pins no es fan pinyons ni cucs, ni ocells. | Father, if there’s no pines pinions won’t be made nor worms, nor birds. |
| Pare on no hi ha flors no es fan abelles, cera, ni mel. | Father, where there’s no flowers are not made bees, beeswax, nor honey. |
| Pare que el camp ja no és el camp. Pare demà del cel plourà sang. El vent ho canta plorant. | Father, the camp is not the camp anymore. Father, tomorrow from the sky shall rain blood. Crying the wind is singing it. |
| Pare ja són aquí... Monstres de carn amb cucs de ferro. | Father, they are already here… Monsters of flesh with iron worms. |
| Pare no, no tingueu por, i digueu que no, que jo us espero. | Father no, don’t be afraid, and say no, for I await you. |
| Pare que estan matant la terra. Pare deixeu de plorar que ens han declarat la guerra. | Father, they are killing the earth. Father, stop crying for they have declared us war. |
