| Tu silueta va caminando
| your silhouette is walking
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| con el alma triste y dormida,
| with a sad and sleeping soul,
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| ya la aurora no es nada nuevo
| the dawn is nothing new
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| pa' tus ojos grandes y pa' tu frente;
| for your big eyes and for your forehead;
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| ya el cielo y sus estrellas
| already the sky and its stars
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| se quedaron mudos, lejanos y muertos
| they were silent, distant and dead
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| pa' tu mente ajena.
| for your foreign mind.
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| Nos hablaron una vez cuando niños,
| They spoke to us once as children,
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| cuando la vida se muestra entera,
| when life shows itself whole,
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| que el futuro, que cuando grandes,
| that the future, that when they grow up,
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| ahí murieron ya los momentos,
| there the moments died,
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| sembraron así su semilla
| thus they sowed their seed
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| y tuvimos miedo, temblamos,
| and we were afraid, we trembled,
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| y en ésto se nos fue la vida.
| and in this our life was lost.
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| Cada uno aferrado a sus dioses,
| Each clinging to his gods of him,
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| productos de toda una historia,
| products of a whole history,
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| los modelan y los destruyen
| they shape and destroy them
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| y según eso ordenan sus vidas;
| and according to that they order their lives;
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| en la frente les ponen monedas,
| they put coins on their foreheads,
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| en sus largas manos les cuelgan
| in their long hands they hang
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| candados, letreros y rejas. | padlocks, signs and bars. |