Translation of the song lyrics Por los Ceniceros - Hora Zulú

Por los Ceniceros (original)

De dar tantos bandazos me ha parecio ver un arte
En construir un camino pa no ir a ninguna parte
Y al menos vi motivos siempre como pa decirte
Que quizas nunca tuve nada nuevo que contarte
De no saber que hacer entre otra vez en este obstracismo
Llamado a ser soldado en las filas del pesimismo
Me puse a revisar las bases de mi agnosticismo y
Por no querer creer no quise creer ni en mi mismo
Salí de las fronteras del que siento por mi pueblo
Fui cogiendo conceptos y reuniendo vocablos
Y ahora creo que soy arbol pues el viento no me dobla
Y si se marcha esta niebla podras ver de que te hablo
Ponle dos velas al patrono de los increibles
Que no nacio este pobre predicador en un establo
Mas si hay un nubarron tan grande que tu mente nuble
Tambien sabré buscarme a mi sanpedro y mi sanpablo
Que ahora ha cambiao mi suerte
Y me han vuelto a entrar ganas de querer quererte
Y contarte que to esto no lo hago ni mucho menos yo por ti
Y no me siento na arrepentido tengo que serte del to sincero
Porque las penas mato el olvido me las deje por los ceniceros
Me las deje
Me di cuenta hace tiempo que tachando era intachable
Consegui lo imposible el dia que perdi un imperdible
Deje en mi casa aquello que no fuera indispensable
Me resulto impensable echar mas de lo imprescindible
Quisieron ver desde abajo como cruzaba el cable
Y entonces mi equilibrio se les demostró infalible
Quisieron discutir otra veh lo que es indiscutible
Que matan mas la lenguas afiladas que los sables
De nada me hubiera servido repartir mandobles
Se gana en esta vida mucho mas con ser amable
Y no se mira con los mismos ojos al temible
Hare pues de mi verso un elemento masticable
Y que digan lo que digan si que hablen lo que hablen
Que a mi que a mi que anden diciendo me parece predecible
Que tan solo peleando me convertire en vencible
Pero mi pensamiento no se hara domesticable
Iban por mi pero con las prisas
Se olvidaron de hacer bien las cosas
Se olvidaron de ocultar las risas
Y su caida fué vertiginosa
No contaron con mi enorme peso
Subestimaron mi suerte incluso
Dudaron de la fe que profeso
Mas confieso que mi fe se impuso

(translation)

From giving so many lurches it seemed to me to see an art
In building a road to go nowhere
And at least I always saw reasons like to tell you
That maybe I never had anything new to tell you
Of not knowing what to do between again in this obstracism
Called to be a soldier in the ranks of pessimism
I began to revise the foundations of my agnosticism and
Because I didn't want to believe, I didn't even want to believe in myself.
I left the borders of what I feel for my people
I was taking concepts and gathering words
And now I think I'm a tree because the wind doesn't bend me
And if this fog goes away you will be able to see what I am talking about
Put two candles on the patron saint of the incredibles
Wasn't this poor preacher born in a stable
But if there is a cloud so big that your mind is cloudy
I will also know how to look for my sanpedro and my sanpablo
That now my luck has changed
And they made me want to love you again
And tell you that I'm not doing all this, much less me for you
And I don't feel sorry, I have to be honest with you
Because oblivion killed sorrows, I left them for the ashtrays
I left them
I realized a long time ago that crossing out was impeccable
I achieved the impossible the day I lost a safety pin
Leave in my house what is not essential
It was unthinkable for me to take more than what is essential
They wanted to see from below how the cable crossed
And then my balance proved to them infallible
They wanted to discuss another veh what is indisputable
That sharp tongues kill more than sabers
It would have been no use distributing swords
You earn much more in this life by being kind
And you don't look with the same eyes at the fearsome
I will therefore make my verse a chewable element
And let them say what they say if they speak what they speak
That what they are saying seems predictable to me
That just by fighting I will become beatable
But my thought won't become tame
They were going for me but in a hurry
They forgot to do things right
They forgot to hide the laughs
And his fall was vertiginous
They didn't count on my huge weight
They underestimated my luck even
They doubted the faith I profess
But I confess that my faith prevailed