| Como queriendote explicar
| as wanting to explain
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| Con un sollozo su canción
| With a sob its song
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| Canta el canario en su jaula
| The canary sings in its cage
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| De alambre fino y plateado
| Fine silver wire
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| Esperando ser liberado
| waiting to be released
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| Y su canto se pierde
| And her singing of him is lost
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| En un patio vacio
| in an empty courtyard
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| Mientras alguien se muere de amor
| while someone dies of love
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| El sol se oculta en el tapial
| The sun hides in the wall
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| La casa parece más gris
| The house seems grayer
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| En la penumbra un borracho
| In the gloom a drunk
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| Se orina todo el pantalón
| He urinates all over his pants
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| Y riega el marmol de un balcón
| And she waters the marble of a balcony
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| Y se escapa de un pago
| And she runs away from a payment
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| Hacia un sueño perdido
| Towards a lost dream
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| Mientras alguien se muere de amor
| while someone dies of love
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| Siguen pasando inviernos sigen
| Winters continue to pass
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| Siguen pasando años siguen
| Years go by
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| Una serpiente cambia la piel
| A snake sheds its skin
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| Las bonitas se tuestan la piel
| The pretty ones roast their skin
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| A algunos se les arruga la piel
| Some get wrinkled skin
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| Y a otros les arrancaron la piel
| And others had their skin ripped off
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| Pero hay alguien que gime en su piel
| But there is someone who moans in his skin
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| Porque ha de sentir sobre su piel
| Because he has to feel on his skin
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| Lo que nunca ha tenido
| What she has never had
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| Lo que siempre ha esperado
| what she has always hoped for
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| Y es amor y es amor
| And it's love and it's love
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| El estudiante se junto
| The student joined
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| Con la dueña de la pensión
| With the owner of the pension
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| Ella es muy gorda el es flaquito
| She is very fat, he is skinny
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| Pero igual le van adelante
| But they still go ahead
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| Ya no estan solos como antes
| They are no longer alone as before
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| Y se mienten los dos
| And they both lie
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| Por temor al hastio
| For fear of boredom
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| Mientras alguien se muere de amor
| while someone dies of love
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| El canario sigue enjaulao
| The canary is still caged
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| El ebrio anda asustao
| The drunk is scared
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| Porque la ley le corto el chorro
| Because the law cut off his jet
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| Y el estudiante vino gordo
| And the student came fat
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| La gerda lo dejo por otro
| The gerda left him for another
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| Siempre hay algo de alcohol
| There is always some alcohol
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| De prisión de mentira
| of lie prison
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| Cuando alguien se muere de amor
| When someone dies of love
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| Siguen pasando inviernos siguen
| Winters continue to pass
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| Siguen pasando años siguen | Years go by |