FIRE AND BLOOD lyrics by Joel Sattler
based on a translation of
Soneto XLVI
from "Cien sonetos de amor"
by Pablo Neruda

don't want to love you but I love you
I go from love to love not love
from waiting to I can not wait
from icy cold to fiery hate

I love you only you are mine
I hate you only so unkind
bend me over change my mind
I do not see you love is blind

January light my heart
beam my heart so cruel apart
from my peace you steal the key
winter is consuming me

in this story he who dies
dies of love from loving love
because I love it's only I
loving love in fire and blood

fire and blood
fire and blood
from the day I rose from mud
love has pulled me up and round
spun my heart around and down
fire and blood
fire and blood
one is shame and one desire
first I love you then I don't
I should I hate you but I won't
my heart has reasons it has got
of which of reason it knows not
the heart does what is does because
of blood and fire
fire and blood

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SONETO LXVI
from "Cien sonetos de amor"
by Pablo Neruda

No te quiero sino porque te quiero
y de quererte a no quererte llego
y de esperarte cuando no te espero
pasa mi corazón del frío al fuego.

Te quiero sólo porque a ti te quiero,
te odio sin fin, y odiándote te ruego,
y la medida de mi amor viajero
es no verte y amarte como un ciego.

Tal vez consumirá la luz de Enero,
su rayo cruel, mi corazón entero,
robándome la llave del sosiego.

En esta historia sólo yo me muero
y moriré de amor porque te quiero,
porque te quiero, amor, a sangre y fuego.