Lyrics of El Cigarrillo - Yoskar Sarante

El Cigarrillo (original)

Anoche estuve conversando con mi cigarrillo
Me sentí cansada, cansada, aburrida y tan bacía
Que aveces asta pienso que ni siquiera existo
Que aveces asta pienso que ni siquiera existo
Lo encendí muy lentamente, le dí una fumada
Y al mirar el humo que en el espacio se volatizaba
Recordé tantas cosas que creí olvidadas
Se las conté todas mientras que lo fumaba
Le converse de ti y de mis añoranzas
Le conte de tus besos y de mis esperanzas
Le conté de tu olvido, de mis lágrimas tantas
De aquello que vivimos y que hoy se a vuelto nada
Le dije que es posible que a mi nadie me quiera
Por que he intentado vivir a mi manera
Por que me he negado a pagar el tributo
De bajeza y pecado que hoy no exige el mundo
Que a lo mejor estoy acabada o que la vida me a vencido
Que he sufrido y he llorado
Que he luchado y he reído
Y que es lo que he ganado por ser así tan comprensiva
Solo vivir desesperada en un mundo tan vacío
Anoche estuve conversando con mi cigarrillo
Y al terminarlo pensando me quede entre suspiros
Que en este verso triste que es el mundo en que vivo
Solo él me va quedando como único amigo

(translation)

Last night I was chatting with my cigarette
I felt tired, tired, bored and so empty
That sometimes I even think that I don't even exist
That sometimes I even think that I don't even exist
I lit it real slow, took a hit
And looking at the smoke that volatilized in space
I remembered so many things that I thought I had forgotten
I told them all while I smoked it
I talked to him about you and my longings
I told him about your kisses and my hopes
I told him about your forgetfulness, about my many tears
Of what we live and that today has become nothing
I told him that it is possible that nobody loves me
'Cause I've tried to live my way
Because I have refused to pay the tribute
Of baseness and sin that today the world does not demand
That maybe I'm finished or that life has defeated me
That I have suffered and I have cried
That I have fought and I have laughed
And what have I gained by being so understanding
Just living desperate in a world so empty
Last night I was chatting with my cigarette
And when I finished it thinking I stayed between sighs
That in this sad verse that is the world I live in
Only he remains my only friend