| Quieto parao', no te arrimes, ya son demasiados abriles
| Stay still, don't get close, there are already too many years
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| Para tu amanecer desbocao', mejor que me olvides
| For your runaway dawn, you better forget me
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| Yo me quedo aquí a tender mi pena al sol
| I stay here to lay my sorrow out in the sun
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| En la cuerda de tender desolación
| On the clothesline desolation
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| Luego empezaré a coser «tequieros» en un papel
| Then I'll start sewing "love you" on a piece of paper
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| Y a barrer el querer con los pelos de un pincel.
| And to sweep the desire with the hairs of a brush.
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| Y en cuanto acabó de zurcir las heridas de
| And as soon as she finished mending the wounds of
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| Las noches mal dormidas llegué yo
| The badly slept nights I arrived
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| Y le llené de flores el jergón para los dos
| And I filled the pallet with flowers for both of us
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| Sin espinas, de colores, que se rieguen
| Thornless, colored, watered
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| Cuando llora y cuando no, las sulfatamos
| When he cries and when he doesn't, we sulphate them
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| Con nuestro sudor
| with our sweat
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| Y me confesó, cuando quieras arrancamos que
| And he confessed to me, whenever you want we start that
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| En las líneas de la mano lo leyó
| In the lines of the hand she read it
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| Que se acabó el que la quemara el sol
| That the sun burned her is over
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| Pero se asustó, ¡como te retumba el pecho!
| But she got scared, how your chest rumbles!
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| Tranquí, solo es mi maltrecho corazón
| Calm down, it's just my broken heart
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| Que se encabrita cuando oye tu voz, el muy cabrón
| Who rears up when he hears your voice, the bastard
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| ¿Qué coño le pasará que ya no sale a volar?
| What the hell will happen to him that he doesn't go out to fly anymore?
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| ¿Tal vez le mojó las plumas el relente de la luna?
| Maybe the moonlight wet his feathers?
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| Le volvió loca el sonío' de las gotas de rocío
| The sound of the dew drops drove her crazy
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| Cuando empieza a clarear y aún no se ha dormío'
| When it starts to get light and he hasn't fallen asleep yet
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| Y me enamoró, (ya vez) aunque era un hada alada y
| And she made me fall in love, (already once) although he was a winged fairy and
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| Yo seguía siendo nada no importó
| I was still nothing did not matter
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| Eramos parte del mismo colchón
| We were part of the same mattress
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| Hasta que juró: «nos querremos más que nadie
| Until he swore: «we will love each other more than anyone
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| Pa' que no corra ni el aire entre tú y yo»
| So that not even the air runs between you and me»
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| Sentí que me iba faltando el calor, y digo yo…
| I felt that I was missing the heat, and I say…
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| ¿Qué coño le pasará que ya no sale a volar?
| What the hell will happen to him that he doesn't go out to fly anymore?
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| ¿Tal vez le mojó las plumas el relente de la luna?
| Maybe the moonlight wet his feathers?
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| Le volvió loca el sonío' de las gotas de rocío
| The sound of the dew drops drove her crazy
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| Cuando empieza a clarear y aún no se ha dormío'
| When it starts to get light and he hasn't fallen asleep yet
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| Le hizo un trato al colchón, con su espuma se forró
| He made a deal to the mattress, with his foam he lined himself
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| El corazón, que anoche era de piedra y al alba era
| The heart, which last night was made of stone and at dawn was
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| De mimbre, que se dobla antes que partirse…
| Of wicker, which bends rather than break…
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| Amaneció, la vi irse sonriendo, con lo puesto
| She woke up, I saw her go smiling, with what she was wearing
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| Por la puerta del balcón, el pelo al viento
| Through the balcony door, hair in the wind
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| Diciéndome adiós, porque decidió que ya
| Telling me goodbye, because she decided that already
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| Estaba hasta las tetas de poetas de bragueta y revolcón
| She was up to the tits of poets with fly and romp
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| De trovadores de contenedor | Of container troubadours |