| Cuando caiga la tarde, lo verás salir
| When evening falls, you will see him leave
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| Arrastrando de casa el calor del hogar
| Dragging the heat of home from home
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| Cortará alguna flor, besará a su mujer
| He will cut some flower, he will kiss his wife
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| Perseguirá la estela de un comenta fugaz
| He will chase the wake of a fleeting comment
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| Y en la calle lo verás abrir la flor de su secreto
| And in the street you will see him open the flower of his secret
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| Y empezará a soñar
| And he will start to dream
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| Quizá vaya al billar a mirar hombres y posturitas
| Maybe I'll go to the billiards to look at men and postures
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| Quizá invente una cita
| Maybe I'll make up a date
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| Con un Adonis para él
| With an Adonis for him
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| Ningún hombre lo amó
| no man loved him
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| A nadie reveló su pasión y los juegos
| To no one did he reveal his passion for him and the games
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| El deseo clandestino
| the clandestine desire
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| No hubo cartas de amor
| There were no love letters
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| No hubo día del orgullo
| there was no pride day
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| No le devolverán los veranos perdidos
| They won't bring back the lost summers
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| Y Cernuda lo ve suspirar, triste, desde el Parnaso
| And Cernuda sees him sigh sadly from Parnassus
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| San Sebastián asaetado reza por tus pecados
| Saint Sebastian with an arrow prays for your sins
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| Llora por ti, no olvida
| Cry for you, don't forget
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| Al que sufre en silencio
| To the one who suffers in silence
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| A su oveja perdida
| To his lost sheep
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| Miran al cielo y piden un deseo:
| They look at the sky and make a wish:
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| Contigo la noche más bella
| With you the most beautiful night
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| Amores imposibles
| Impossible loves
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| Que escriben en canciones
| What do they write in songs
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| El trazo de una estrella
| The trace of a star
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| Cartas que nunca se envían
| Letters that are never sent
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| Botellas que brillan
| bottles that shine
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| En el mar del olvido
| In the sea of oblivion
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| Nunca dejes de buscarme
| never stop looking for me
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| La excusa más cobarde
| The most cowardly excuse
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| Es culpar al destino
| It's blaming fate
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| Cuando salga de clase, lo volverá a encontrar
| When he gets out of class, he'll find it again
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| En el lado salvaje, tras el humo del hash
| On the wild side, behind the hash smoke
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| Él, dulce calavera. | He, sweet skull. |
| Él, corsario de barrio
| He, neighborhood corsair
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| Ella, dulce muñeca. | She sweet doll. |
| Ella, seria y formal
| She, serious and formal
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| Él no escucha el rumor de sus alas si pasa a su lado
| He doesn't hear the rustle of his wings if he walks by
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| Pobre Blancanieves
| poor snow white
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| Nuestro príncipe prefiere a la madrastra
| Our prince prefers the stepmother
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| A la mala del cuento
| To the bad of the story
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| Él será la manzana
| he will be the apple
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| Donde duerme el veneno
| where the poison sleeps
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| Ella soñará un verso que él nunca escuchará
| She will dream a verse that he will never hear
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| Él no trepará sus trenzas una noche de invierno
| He won't climb his pigtails on a winter's night
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| Ella soñará un viaje y no habrá despedidas
| She will dream a trip and there will be no goodbyes
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| Ni canciones de amor, ni Capuleto y Montesco
| Neither love songs nor Capulet and Montague
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| Crecerán y en la espuma del tiempo
| They will grow and in the foam of time
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| Se deshacen sus sueños
| Your dreams are undone
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| No quedará ni un recuerdo
| There won't be a memory
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| Ni en la noche un lamento
| Not even a lament at night
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| Quizá una leve herida
| maybe a minor injury
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| Que lavará el olvido
| that will wash away oblivion
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| O el agua de la clepsidra
| Or the water of the hourglass
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| Miran al cielo y piden un deseo:
| They look at the sky and make a wish:
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| Contigo la noche más bella
| With you the most beautiful night
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| Amores imposibles
| Impossible loves
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| Que escriben en canciones
| What do they write in songs
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| El trazo de una estrella
| The trace of a star
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| Cartas que nunca se envían
| Letters that are never sent
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| Botellas que brillan
| bottles that shine
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| En el mar del olvido
| In the sea of oblivion
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| Nunca dejes de buscarme
| never stop looking for me
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| La excusa más cobarde
| The most cowardly excuse
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| Es culpar al destino
| It's blaming fate
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| Caminando hacia el sur, tomando la autopista
| Walking south, taking the highway
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| Han abierto un garito, muy cerquita del pueblo
| They have opened a joint, very close to the town
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| Donde huríes desnudas venidas de cien mundos
| Where you huríes naked coming from a hundred worlds
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| Celebran cada noche catorce de febrero
| They celebrate the fourteenth of February every night
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| Y en la aldea un hombre suspira si el neón se ilumina
| And in the village a man sighs if the neon lights up
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| No tuvo Eva este Adán
| This Adam did not have Eve
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| No hubo asiento de atrás
| there was no back seat
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| Ni caricias, ni cartas perfumadas
| Neither caresses, nor perfumed letters
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| No hubo cita en el parque
| There was no date in the park
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| No hubo chicas de Plan
| There were no girls from Plan
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| Cuando caiga la noche lo verás entrar
| When night falls you will see him enter
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| Como cada domingo aseado y puntual
| Like every neat and punctual Sunday
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| La encontrará en la barra, como a un delfín varado
| She'll find her at the bar like a stranded dolphin
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| Que ha perdido su estrella, que un día expulsó el mar
| That she has lost her star, that one day the sea expelled
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| Ella escucha y él, enamorado, desnuda sus miedos
| She listens and he, in love, undresses his fears
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| Entre el ruido, benjamines de champán
| Between the noise, champagne benjamines
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| Y otros delfines cobrando su rescate
| And other dolphins collecting their ransom
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| A náufragos perdidos
| to lost castaways
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| Sueña raptar a su amante
| He dreams of kidnapping his lover
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| Miran al cielo y piden un deseo:
| They look at the sky and make a wish:
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| Contigo la noche más bella… | With you the most beautiful night... |