Volver

If you find an open door, enter and close it
Perhaps the only door you have left
Only four planks remain from your old home
As old as my wait

Today I return to my home
Like wheat goes to bread
My hands, once mud, smell like the city
Like kisses as cheap as paper flowers
And nights without dawn

To return, it's better to return
To retrace the sea we've sailed
To return, naked like yesterday
With no more sun than faith in our hands
And see once again
What dried up today from neglect
To return and fill with love
The gap that remained between you and me

Let's sow futures in lands of yesterday
Love moth-eaten and young at the same time
And in the hollow of some arms
The light of a new dawn will be born again

To return, it's better to return
To retrace the sea we've sailed
To return, naked like yesterday
With no more sun than faith in our hands
And see once again
What dried up today from neglect
To return and fill with love
The gap that remained between you and me