Un Instante Antes

Me hiciste señales que debí entender

You gave me signals that I should have understood

Como aquel gesto nuevo de arreglarte el pelo

Like that new gesture of fixing your hair

Miraste como quien mira llover

You looked like someone watching the rain

Un instante antes de levantar vuelo

An instant before taking flight

Volviste a tu cauce de estrella fugaz

You returned to your course, a shooting star

Con tu punto de fuga en el cielo

With your vanishing point in the sky

Creo que ya estabas flotando quizás

I think you were already floating, perhaps

Un instante antes de levantar vuelo

An instant before taking flight

Ya te mojabas en otro deshielo

You were already getting wet in another thaw

Un instante antes de levantar vuelo

An instant before taking flight

Ni todas las líneas del Ecuador

Not all the lines of the Equator

Ni el temor y sus muchos anzuelos

Nor the fear and its many hooks

Todo argumento perdía valor

Every argument lost its value

Un instante antes de levantar vuelo

An instant before taking flight

El río cambia y cambia la sed

The river changes, and the thirst changes

Lo habías leído en tu anhelo

You had read it in your longing

Estaba ya escrito mucho antes de

It was already written long before

El instante antes de levantar vuelo

The instant before taking flight

Ya me mirabas desde otro cielo

You were already looking at me from another sky

Un instante antes de levantar vuelo

An instant before taking flight