| Ni locura ni enfermos mentales.
| Neither insane nor mentally ill.
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| Ay personas que para curarse
| There are people who to heal
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| Van de la mano de un mata sano
| They go hand in hand with a healthy bush
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| Medicando las duras verdades
| Medicating the hard truths
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| La encontre, con la mirada nublaa
| I found her, with a cloudy look
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| No atendia a mi interes
| It did not serve my interest
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| Parecia de cristal
| It looked like glass
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| La encontre, sin ganitas de vivir
| I found her, without the will to live
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| Maldiciendo al destino
| cursing fate
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| Que la dejo postrada allí
| That I leave her prostrate there
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| Canta y no llores, y que cantando vas alejando tus temores
| Sing and don't cry, and by singing you will drive away your fears
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| Canta y no llores, y que cantando duelen menos los dolores
| Sing and don't cry, and that singing hurts less pain
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| La ví sentada en un viejo rincon
| I saw her sitting in an old corner
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| De aquel patio solitario de un manicomio
| From that lonely courtyard of a madhouse
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| El duro viento de un invierno gris
| The harsh wind of a gray winter
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| Mecia su pelo como las locas
| She rocked her hair like crazy
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| Todos los dias se ponia aquel mismo vestido
| Every day she put on that same dress
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| Que uno de sus hijos le compro hace años
| That one of her children bought her years ago
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| Mano derecha guardaba una rosa deshojada y fria, como la roca
| Right hand kept a leafless and cold rose, like the rock
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| Pintaba cuadros, siempre tuvo el mar como referencia y motivaciones
| She painted pictures, she always had the sea as a reference and motivations
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| Tenia en sus ojos ese brillo gris, que te da una vida de un par de cojones
| She had in her eyes that gray shine, which gives you a life of a couple of balls
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| Cojio mi mano, me miro de frente, e indirectamente me dijo al oido:
| She took my hand, looked me in the face, and indirectly she whispered in my ear:
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| -Sienta a mi lao, cierra los ojos y siente como indiferente se pasan los dias
| -Sit next to me, close your eyes and feel how indifferent the days go by
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| Canta y no llores, y que cantando vas alejando tus temores
| Sing and don't cry, and by singing you will drive away your fears
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| Canta y no llores, y que cantando duelen menos los dolores
| Sing and don't cry, and that singing hurts less pain
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| La encontre y me hablo de soledad
| I found her and she told me about loneliness
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| No creia en el amor, era la infelicidad
| I didn't believe in love, it was unhappiness
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| La encontre, se reia sin querer
| I found her, she laughed unintentionally
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| De los hombres que seguian la doctrina de un querer
| Of the men who followed the doctrine of wanting
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| Canta y no llores, y que cantando vas alejando tus temores
| Sing and don't cry, and by singing you will drive away your fears
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| Canta y no llores, y que cantando duelen menos los dolores
| Sing and don't cry, and that singing hurts less pain
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| Con paso medio lento me llebaste amor
| With a medium slow step you brought me love
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| Cojido de tu mano hasta el dormitorio
| Holding your hand to the bedroom
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| Ilusionada te dio por jugar, con una vieja casa llena de muñecas
| Excited she gave you to play, with an old house full of dolls
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| En un libro viejo guardaban poemas que alguien titulo «Soy un triste abalorio»
| In an old book they kept poems that someone titled "I am a sad trinket"
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| Su piel era arrugada como una maceta
| Her skin was wrinkled like a flowerpot
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| El tiempo pribo de que floreciera
| The time before it bloomed
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| La encontre, con la mirada nublaa
| I found her, with a cloudy look
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| No atendia a mi interes
| It did not serve my interest
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| Parecia de cristal
| It looked like glass
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| La encontre, sin ganitas de vivir
| I found her, without the will to live
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| Maldiciendo al destino
| cursing fate
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| Que la dejo postrada allí
| That I leave her prostrate there
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| Canta y no llores, y que cantando vas alejando tus temores
| Sing and don't cry, and by singing you will drive away your fears
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| Canta y no llores, y que cantando duelen menos los dolores | Sing and don't cry, and that singing hurts less pain |