Translation of the song lyrics Merengue Today - Luis Enrique, C4 Trío

Merengue Today (original)

Me cuentan amigo
Que no dejas la cuardada
Que sigues metiendote
En camisas de once baras
Que no tienes nada con lo bueno
Que lo bueno para ti, no vale nada
Te pasas la vida rebotando en las esquinas
Entre vicios raros, mujersuelas why cantinas
Dices que es un mito, lo del sida
Que de algo hay que morirse en esta vida
No lo tomes tan a la ligera
Vuelve a ser por Dios lo que antes eraaas
Toma mi mano, viejo amigo why date un chance
No ves que tienes un futuropor delante
Toma mi mano, viejo amigo why date un chance
Dale la espalda a ese infierno delirante
Dile no a las drogas limpia el alma
Esa baina de las drogas no esta en nadaa
Me cuentan amigo, que a tu madre le sacaste
Las ultimas lagrimas de amor para inyectarte
Que la caña aveces es, como sodoma
Tu madre ha dicho que, que te perdonaaa
No lo tomes tan a la ligera
Vuelve a ser por Dios lo que antes eraaas
Toma mi mano, viejo amigo why date un chance
No ves que tienes un futuropor delante
Toma mi mano, viejo amigo why date un chance
Dale la espalda a ese infierno delirante
Dile no a las drogas, limpia el alma
Esa baina de las drogas no esta en nadaa
Dile no a las drogas, limpia el alma
Esa baina de las drogas, no esta en nada
Toma mi mano viejo amigo why date un chance
No ves que tienes un camino por delante
Toma mi mano viejo amigo why date un chance
Dale la espalda a ese infierno delirante
(Toma mi mano viejo amigo why date un chance)
Rooompe las cadenas que te atan
(Dile si a la vida)
A ese mundo alucinante que te mata
(Date un chance)
No he venido a predicarte
Solo quiero ayudartee
(Dile si a la viiida)
Es verdaad, no señoor
Es importante tu dignidad
(Date un chanceee)
Dile si a la vida

(translation)

tell me friend
That you do not leave the square
What do you keep getting into?
In eleven bar shirts
That you have nothing with the good
That what is good for you is worth nothing
You spend your life bouncing off corners
Between strange vices, women soles and canteens
You say it's a myth, about AIDS
That you have to die of something in this life
Don't take it so lightly
Go back to being for God what you were before
Take my hand, old friend and give yourself a chance
You don't see that you have a future ahead
Take my hand, old friend and give yourself a chance
Turn your back on that raving hell
Say no to drugs cleanses the soul
That drug store is not in anything
They tell me friend, that you took your mother
The last tears of love to inject you
That the cane is sometimes, like sodom
Your mother has said that, that she forgives you
Don't take it so lightly
Go back to being for God what you were before
Take my hand, old friend and give yourself a chance
You don't see that you have a future ahead
Take my hand, old friend and give yourself a chance
Turn your back on that raving hell
Say no to drugs, cleanse the soul
That drug store is not in anything
Say no to drugs, cleanse the soul
That drug baina, is not in anything
Take my hand old friend and give yourself a chance
Don't you see that you have a road ahead
Take my hand old friend and give yourself a chance
Turn your back on that raving hell
(Take my hand old friend and give yourself a chance)
Break the chains that bind you
(Say yes to life)
To that amazing world that kills you
(Give yourself a chance)
I have not come to preach to you
I just want to help you
(Say yes to the widow)
It's true, no sir
Your dignity is important
(Give yourself a chance)
Say yes to life