"Alfonsina y El Mar" is a song that speaks about the death of the Argentine poet Alfonsina Storni. The lyrics describe her walking towards the sea and taking her own life, overwhelmed by her struggles and sorrows, including her diagnosis of breast cancer. The song portrays the sea as a place of peace and comfort where she will find solace for her pain. The last part of the song talks about her departure and how she becomes one with the sea, represented by the image of her being dressed in seafoam. Overall, the song reflects on the themes of solitude, pain, and transcendence through death.
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By the soft sand that the sea licks
Your little footprint
Doesn't come back anymore
A path of only pain and silence arrived
Until the deep water
A path of only mute sorrows arrived
Until the foam
God knows what anguish accompanied you
What old pains silenced your voice
To lie down lulled in the song
Of the seashells
The song that sings in the dark bottom of the sea
The seashell
Chorus 1
You leave Alfonsina, with your loneliness
What new poems did you go to search?
An ancient voice of wind and salt
It breaks your soul and is taking it
And you go there
Like in dreams asleep
Alfonsina, dressed in sea
Verse 2
Five mermaids will carry you
Through paths of seaweed and coral
And phosphorescent seahorses will make
A circle around you
And the inhabitants of the water will play
Soon by your side
Lower the lamp for me a little
A little more
Let me sleep nurse, in peace
And if he calls
Don't tell him I'm here
Tell him that Alfonsina isn't coming back
And if he calls
Don't ever tell him that I'm here
Say that I'm gone
Chorus 2
You leave Alfonsina, with your loneliness
What new poems did you go to search?
An ancient voice of wind and salt
It breaks your soul and is taking it
And you go there
Like in dreams asleep
Alfonsina, dressed in sea
You leave Alfonsina
Dressed in
Dressed in sea
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