| Hace muchos años un hombre soñó
| Many years ago a man dreamed
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| Un imperio, un imperio muy grande
| An empire, a very big empire
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| Tenía buena cara y no paraba de hablar
| He had a good face and did not stop talking
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| Con el hombre más odiado y querido del lugar
| With the most hated and loved man in the place
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| Soñaba tener una jardín florido con la patria de Mexico al pie
| I dreamed of having a flowery garden with the country of Mexico at the foot
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| Con hermanos de toda calaña y en el sueño gritaba:
| With brothers of all kinds and in the dream he shouted:
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| «me hundo, me hundo, me hundo»
| "I sink, I sink, I sink"
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| Y nadie sabe como vine a parar yo, al Tercer Mundo
| And nobody knows how I ended up in the Third World
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| La Mona Giménez con Mickey Rourke
| La Mona Giménez with Mickey Rourke
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| Mirando las chicas del puticlub
| Looking at the girls in the whorehouse
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| La banda de rock que mas chicas quiso
| The rock band that most girls wanted
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| Entrando muchachos al Caracas Hilton
| Entering boys at the Caracas Hilton
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| Coca-Coca-Coca-Coca Sarly
| Coca-Coca-Coca-Coca Sarly
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| Coca-Coca-Coca-Coca Cola
| Coca-Coca-Coca-Coca-Cola
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| Coca-Coca-Coca-Coca
| Coca-Coca-Coca-Coca
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| Inapetente estara Pinochet
| Pinochet will be unappetizing
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| El día que lo echen a palos
| The day they beat him up
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| Segui caminando y llegue a una disco
| I kept walking and came to a disco
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| Khadafi bailando con un ministro
| Gaddafi dancing with a minister
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| Pidieron petróleo y no les dieron
| They asked for oil and they were not given
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| Les dieron Fernet que es un buen veneno
| They gave them Fernet which is a good poison
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| Fabi Cantilo echo a Henry Miller
| Fabi Cantilo kicked out Henry Miller
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| Porque era muy tarde y por lo que escribe
| Because it was too late and because of what he writes
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| A Henry nada de eso le importó y terminó en la cama con la Salomón
| None of that mattered to Henry and he ended up in bed with Solomon.
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| Hay van los Pimpinela por la Quinta Avenida
| There are the Pimpinela on Fifth Avenue
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| El Madison al palo, arde la Argentina
| The Madison to the stick, Argentina burns
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| Calígula despierta de su invernacion
| Caligula wakes up from his hibernation
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| Sube al escenario y se los tira a los dos
| Get on the stage and bang 'em both
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| El gordo Porcel canta rock y fuma la yerba de Billie Bond
| Fat Porcel sings rock and smokes Billie Bond's weed
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| Y siguen planeando algo en Bolivia
| And they are still planning something in Bolivia
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| Casar a Almodovar con una niña
| Marry Almodovar with a girl
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| Y todo el mundo quiere llegar primero
| And everyone wants to get there first
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| Se besan Pedrito con la Melero
| They kiss Pedrito with the Melero
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| Que sueño más raro el de esta yunta
| What a strange dream of this team
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| Las puertas aquí no terminan nunca
| The doors here never end
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| Batato jugando con Maradona
| Batato playing with Maradona
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| Solitos, solitos en la de Boca
| Alone, alone in Boca's
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| Y sigo caminando y entro en un bar
| And I keep walking and enter a bar
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| Y ya no era día y no era verdad
| And it was no longer day and it was not true
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| Andres Calamaro y Lou Reed
| Andres Calamaro and Lou Reed
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| Pensando, pensando en salir de aquí
| Thinking, thinking of getting out of here
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| Afuera los pibes en la ciudad
| Outside the kids in the city
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| Creo que no sueñan, no sueñan más
| I think they don't dream, they don't dream anymore
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| No quiero dolares
| I don't want dollars
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| Nena vuelvo a casa a soñar con vos
| Baby I'm coming home to dream of you
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| Y en casa grito: «me hundo, me hundo, me hundo»
| And at home I scream: "I'm sinking, I'm sinking, I'm sinking"
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| Y nadie sabe como vine a parar yo
| And no one knows how I came to be
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| Al tercer mundo, Tercer Mundo | To the third world, Third World |