| Subirá el azogue en cada estancia
| The quicksilver will rise in each room
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| Si nos ven entrar como elefantes perdidos
| If they see us enter like lost elephants
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| En busca de otro derrotero;
| In search of another course;
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| Quizá más inocente, menos resentido
| Perhaps more innocent, less resentful
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| Que no se desviva en lo vivido;
| Do not lose yourself in what has been lived;
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| Que muera buscando un horizonte nuevo
| Let him die looking for a new horizon
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| No comimos nada: contamos veinte
| We ate nothing: we counted twenty
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| Con el mercadeo más urgente, danzaron
| With the most urgent marketing, they danced
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| Las uñas de los taberneros
| The nails of the bartenders
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| Repletas de planetas, de tabaco y plata;
| Full of planets, tobacco and silver;
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| De la libertad que desbarata los sueños
| Of the freedom that shatters dreams
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| De aquellos que nunca durmieron
| of those who never slept
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| Tan harto de ternura y de tanta picadura, amor
| So sick of tenderness and so much sting, love
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| Ungido, me abracé al rugido que me enamoró
| Anointed, I embraced the roar that made me fall in love
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| Después, me encomendé a la bruma
| Later, I entrusted myself to the mist
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| Que puebla el último atolón;
| That populates the last atoll;
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| Que enviuda y amanece, muda, con nuestro temblor
| That is a widow and dawns, mute, with our tremor
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| Volverá el temblor
| The tremor will return
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| De la retirada, no fuimos hijos:
| From the withdrawal, we were not children:
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| Fuimos la palabra y entresijos dorados;
| We were the golden word and ins and outs;
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| La levantera y el calambre
| The lifter and the cramp
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| Nos queda la certeza de sabernos vivos
| We are left with the certainty of knowing we are alive
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| Nunca vencedores ni vencidos; | Never winners or losers; |
| regados
| watered
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| Por lo que queda del estambre
| For what remains of the yarn
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| ¡Qué hartura de tormento -tormenta tierra adentro-, amor!
| What a lot of torment -inland storm-, love!
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| Me cansa la caricia mansa de su resplandor
| The meek caress of its radiance tires me
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| Que abrasa aquel renglón torcido
| That burns that crooked line
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| Que se vistió de perdedor…
| That he dressed as a loser...
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| Si yerra, me hablará la tierra, y llegará el temblor
| If I make a mistake, the earth will speak to me, and the tremor will come
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| Volverá el temblor | The tremor will return |