| en un banco en la ciudad,
| in a bank in the city,
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| con tu mirada
| with your look
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| recordando el litoral.
| remembering the coastline
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| Tu suerte quiso estar partida:
| Your luck wanted to be split:
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| mitad verdad, mitad mentira,
| half truth, half lie,
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| como esperanza de los pobres prometida.
| as promised hope of the poor.
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| Andando solo
| walking alone
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| bajo la llovizna gris,
| under the gray drizzle,
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| fingiendo duro
| faking hard
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| que tu vida fue de aqui.
| that your life was from here.
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| Porque cambiaste un mar de gente,
| Because you changed a sea of people,
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| por donde gobierna la flor?,
| Where does the flower rule?
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| mira que el rio nunca regalo el color.
| look that the river never gave the color.
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| Carito: suelta tu pena,
| Carito: let go of your sorrow,
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| se haga de amante tus lagrimas
| your tears become a lover
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| entre mis cuerdas.
| Between my strings
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| Carito: suelta tu piedra
| Carito: drop your stone
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| para volar como el zorzal
| to fly like the thrush
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| en primavera.
| in spring.
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| En Buenos Aires
| In Buenos Aires
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| los zapatos son modernos,
| the shoes are modern,
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| pero no lucen
| but they don't look
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| como en la plaza de un pueblo.
| as in a town square.
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| Deja que tu luz chiquitita
| Let your little light
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| hable en secreto a la cancion
| speak secretly to the song
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| para que te ilumine un poco mas el sol.
| so that the sun illuminates you a little more.
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| Cualquier semilla
| any seed
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| cuando es planta quiere ver
| when it is plant wants to see
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| la misma estrella
| the same star
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| de aquel atardecer;
| of that evening;
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| que la salvo del pico agudo,
| that saved her from the sharp peak,
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| refugiandola a lo oscuro
| sheltering her in the dark
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| de la gaviota, arrasadora de los surcos.
| of the seagull, destroyer of the furrows.
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| Carito: yo soy tu amigo,
| Carito: I am your friend,
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| me ofrezco arbol
| I offer myself tree
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| para tu nido.
| for your nest.
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| Carito: suelta tu canto
| Carito: release your song
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| que el abanico
| that the fan
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| de mi acordeon
| of my accordion
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| lo esta esperando. | is waiting for you. |