| Todo es frágil:
| Everything is fragile:
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| Tu costumbre de amarme
| your habit of loving me
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| Mi fe
| My faith
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| El silencio y la vida que duerme
| The silence and the life that sleeps
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| En un vagón de tren
| In a train car
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| Tu contrato fugaz
| your fleeting contract
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| La memoria
| The memory
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| Este hilo de voz
| This thread of voice
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| Las quimeras que surcan estrechos
| The chimeras that cross straits
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| Y este corazón
| and this heart
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| Que persigue tu rastro
| that chases your trail
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| En la alfombra de la habitación
| On the carpet in the room
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| No es tan frágil
| not so fragile
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| El trueno del fúsil
| The thunder of the rifle
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| El temor
| The fear
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| A perderme tus dulces mañanas
| To miss your sweet mornings
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| Tanto dolor
| So much pain
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| La memoria del banco
| The bank's memory
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| El aroma de aceite en el mar
| The aroma of oil in the sea
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| Las fronteras de acero para hombres
| The steel borders for men
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| Humo para el capital
| smoke for the capital
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| Que regula espejismos
| that regulates mirages
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| Y ordena tu necesidad
| And order your need
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| Yo soy frágil como un cristal
| I am fragile as glass
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| Si falta usted a esta cita, mi amor
| If you miss this appointment, my love
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| Si el canto se llena de olvido
| If the song is filled with oblivion
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| Si el recuerdo se va
| If the memory goes
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| Y ya no ríe conmigo
| And you don't laugh with me anymore
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| Quizá no seamos héroes
| We may not be heroes
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| Pero aún seguimos vivos
| But we're still alive
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| Y en la crisálida su voz estallará
| And in the chrysalis his voice will burst
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| Y no se quedará inmóvil al borde del camino
| And it won't stand still by the wayside
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| Y hará futuro su fuerte fragilidad
| And it will make future its strong fragility
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| Es tan frágil el abrazo del mundo y su paz
| The embrace of the world and its peace is so fragile
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| La promesa desde la tribuna
| The promise from the tribune
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| Y su empeño por perdurar
| And his determination to endure
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| Soberbio y resistente
| Superb and resistant
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| Es el grito del miedo anunciando el final
| It is the cry of fear announcing the end
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| Y la noche que escupen al cielo
| And the night they spit into the sky
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| Tantas chimeneas
| so many chimneys
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| Los disparos de nieve
| snow shots
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| El rugido de las bayonetas
| The roar of bayonets
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| Quizá no sea tan frágil
| Maybe it's not so fragile
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| Tu costumbre de amarme
| your habit of loving me
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| Mi fe
| My faith
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| Tu voz y tu memoria
| Your voice and your memory
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| ¿Sabes?, quizá me equivoqué
| You know, maybe I was wrong
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| Quizá no sea indestructible
| It may not be indestructible
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| El trueno del fusil, tanto dolor
| The thunder of the rifle, so much pain
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| La burbuja que encierra este grito
| The bubble that encloses this scream
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| Y este temor
| and this fear
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| A saberme perdido
| to know me lost
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| A perderte y perder la razón
| To lose yourself and lose your reason
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| Yo soy frágil como un cristal
| I am fragile as glass
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| Si falta usted a esta cita, mi amor
| If you miss this appointment, my love
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| Si el canto se llena de olvido
| If the song is filled with oblivion
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| Si el recuerdo se va
| If the memory goes
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| Y ya no ríe conmigo
| And you don't laugh with me anymore
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| Quizá no seamos héroes
| We may not be heroes
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| Pero aún seguimos vivos
| But we're still alive
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| Y en la crisálida su voz estallará
| And in the chrysalis his voice will burst
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| Y no se quedará inmóvil al borde del camino
| And it won't stand still by the wayside
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| Y hará futuro su fuerte fragilidad | And it will make future its strong fragility |