| Me levanto y echo a andar
| I get up and start walking
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| Sin lavarme la cara
| without washing my face
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| Tal vez complete un trecho
| Maybe I'll complete a stretch
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| En la Gran Espiral
| In the Great Spiral
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| Con las cosas que he ganado
| With the things that I have won
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| Y las que he perdido
| And the ones I've lost
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| Mi ceguera y mi bastón
| My blindness and my cane
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| En el camino
| In the path
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| Me encontré al predicador
| I met the preacher
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| Seduciendo a un peregrino
| seducing a pilgrim
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| Me ofreció su mal amor
| He offered me his bad love
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| Y un buen trato y yo grité
| And a good deal and I screamed
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| «Todos mis pecados
| "All my sins
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| Viajarán conmigo
| they will travel with me
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| Ayudándome a acertar
| helping me get it right
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| El camino»
| The way"
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| Me miró y se aclaró la voz
| He looked at me and cleared his throat
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| «Tienes que escoger», me dijo
| "You have to choose," he told me
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| Advertí un bulto en su labio inferior
| I noticed a lump on her bottom lip
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| Y otro en su pantalón
| And another in his pants
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| Y yo escogí la enfermedad
| And I chose the disease
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| Y escogí el frío
| And I chose the cold
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| Pero no equivocaré
| But I won't be wrong
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| El camino
| The way
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| Y corrí a la casa del doctor
| And I ran to the doctor's house
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| Y en su puerta estaba escrito
| And on his door it was written
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| «Ve sangrando que yo llegaré
| «Go bleeding that I will arrive
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| Antes de que caiga el sol»
| Before the sun goes down"
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| Y esperé al anochecer
| And I waited for nightfall
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| Pero él nunca vino
| but he never came
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| Y ahora es más difícil soportar
| And now it's harder to bear
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| El camino
| The way
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| Y llegué temblando hasta el lugar
| And I came trembling to the place
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| Donde un viejo da cobijo
| where an old man gives shelter
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| Le dejaba masturbarse a la vez
| He let him masturbate at the same time
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| Y él me daba de comer
| And he fed me
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| Pero su pan estaba podrido
| But his bread from him was rotten
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| Y tan agrio era su vino
| And so sour was his wine
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| Que ahora el asco me es tan familiar
| That now disgust is so familiar to me
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| Como el camino
| like the way
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| «¿Adónde te crees que vas
| "Where do you think you're going
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| Y de dónde crees que vienes?» | And where do you think you come from?» |
| Preguntaba el viejo al verme marchar
| the old man asked when he saw me leave
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| Muerto de hambre y sed
| starving and thirsty
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| «Si no tienes rumbo
| «If you have no direction
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| Chico, estás perdido»
| Boy, you're lost"
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| Yo le respondí «voy hacia el sol
| I replied "I'm going towards the sun
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| Y vengo del camino»
| And I come from the road"
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| «No hay nada nuevo bajo el sol
| "There is nothing new under the sun
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| No pretendas más que recordar»
| Do not pretend more than to remember »
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| En mi espalda sentía su voz
| On my back I felt his voice
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| Cuando volví a caminar
| when i walked again
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| Dime, si la novedad
| Tell me, if the novelty
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| No era más que un olvido
| It was nothing more than an oblivion
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| Dime qué más tengo que temer
| Tell me what else do I have to fear
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| El resto del camino
| the rest of the way
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| Y tú quieres que me aparte de él
| And you want me apart from him
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| Dices que hay un sendero
| You say there's a path
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| Que es la luna con su palidez
| What is the moon with its paleness
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| La que no me deja ver
| The one that doesn't let me see
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| Pero miré hacia los lados
| But I looked around
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| Y nada era mío
| and nothing was mine
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| No hay desvíos, no hay vuelta atrás
| There are no detours, there is no going back
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| Sólo está el camino
| there is only the way
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| Ahora debo descansar
| Now I must rest
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| Este suelo es mi lecho
| This floor is my bed
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| Y mi techo es el cielo gris
| And my roof is the gray sky
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| Que aún pretende oscurecer
| that still tries to darken
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| Y no me quieras despertar
| And you don't want to wake me up
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| Si me ves dormido
| if you see me asleep
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| Sabe el alba que si quiere yo
| The dawn knows that if I want
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| La espero en el camino
| I wait for her on the way
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| Y todos mis pecados
| And all my sins
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| Viajarán conmigo
| they will travel with me
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| Hasta el más puro final
| Until the purest end
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| Del camino | of the way |