"Arbres per na Cati" - Anegats

Song: Arbres per na Cati
Artist: Anegats
Album: Mons diferents (2005)

"Trees for Cati"

Anonymous in the big city, I am writing a poem.
My sister is getting married and I want to give her a present.
Maybe a melody that lasts forever,
That reminds her that, in every moment of weakness,

I will recite for her, if she wants, Lo Pi de Formentor*
And I will animate if she falls: "Go on! Be strong!"

Sail, ship made of love and youthful hopes.
If bad swell and arguments blow to a bad port,
I'll send you, if you want, a branch of the almond tree,
so that you make a white flag from the flowers.

You will sail far ahead of me, and you two will hide from me
the seaweed that both of you will pull up if you have anchored
Chain that threads itself through where it is best to float,
Chain that leads me to the anchor of missing.

I will sing to you, if necessary, glosses from a time gone by
So that from the grunting trunk the olive tree rebels
and if the day has no sun, orange leaves,
so that they warm the craddle of true love.

*1875 poem by the Mallorcan poet Miquel Costa i Llobera


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"Irreals" - Anegats

Song: Irreals
Artist: Anegats
Album: Mons diferents (2005)

"Unreal"

Unreal like a dream are the prints that you left in my heart
And the theft of the morning that you left, I want to melt,
I want to grind the memory to powder,
because this taste you've left me is so sour.
Oh! Mother, mother, sweet mother, advise me. No! No! No!

Why does this happen to me? Why does resentment win over me?
Hate and love join hands
You've stolen my life and I...I don't want to live on deceptions.

And this is because a grey veil prevents me from seeing that star that wants to wane
And I want to sing "Coses d'ahir"* to you, to be more certain
that, to me, you are like a lighthouse that guides a lost sailor on the blue sea,
blue and green like your eyes. No! No! No!

Why does this happen to me? Why does resentment win over me?
Hate and love join hands...
You've stolen my life and I...don't want to live on deceptions
I don't want to live on deceptions

No! Those little eyes, so tiny,
They're looking at me...and they're killing me.
From the East your perfume reaches me
Anachronistic loves, they were sweet, magical, but...unnatural.
Those were a few days that go on for an eternity
And what could have been? Shit, don't think about this anymore,
look, you've got the brightest star in the sky.

Why does this happen to me? Why does resentment win over me?
Hate and love join hands...
You've stolen my life and I...I don't want to live on deceptions
I don't want to live on deceptions,
I don't want to live on deceptions...

*Song by the same group from the 2004 album "Illenc"