| En los circos se tejen historias
| Stories are woven in circuses
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| Frente y tras el tupido telón
| In front and behind the thick curtain
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| Y un amor que no fue en la memoria
| And a love that was not in memory
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| De la hermosa esposa
| of the beautiful wife
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| Del prestidigitador
| of the conjurer
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| Y dos payasos
| and two clowns
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| Que en cada amanecer
| that in every dawn
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| Cantan borrachos frente al sol
| They sing drunk in front of the sun
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| Abrazando botellas vacías
| hugging empty bottles
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| Tal vez
| Perhaps
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| Con un serio problema de alcohol
| With a serious alcohol problem
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| Un acróbata chino
| a chinese acrobat
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| Y coquetas
| and flirty
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| Jovencitas de tierno rubor
| Young girls with tender blush
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| Bailarinas que el tiempo hará ruinas
| Dancers that time will make ruins
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| Soñando casarse
| dreaming of getting married
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| Con un próspero doctor
| With a prosperous doctor
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| Un tigre flaco que inspirará al final
| A skinny tiger that will inspire in the end
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| Cierta ternura y no temor
| A certain tenderness and not fear
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| Al sumiso comer de la mano jovial
| To the submissive eat from the jovial hand
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| De la amante de su domador
| From the mistress of her tamer
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| Fingiendo alegres
| pretending happy
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| Que no haya ocasos
| Let there be no sunsets
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| Sonrientes bajo una misma luz
| Smiling under the same light
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| Todos seremos igual que payasos
| We will all be just like clowns
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| Bajo la carpa del cielo azul
| Under the blue sky tent
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| Todos lo circos del mundo tienen
| All the circuses in the world have
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| Que afrontar un destino final
| Than to face a final destiny
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| Y donar su cansado elefante
| And donate your tired elephant
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| A la población de algún
| To the population of some
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| Zoológico local
| local zoo
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| Venden su carpa
| They sell their tent
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| Y despliegan sin saber
| And they unfold without knowing
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| La última y más triste función
| The last and saddest function
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| Al marcharse vencidos
| When leaving defeated
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| Para no volver
| Never to return
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| Rumbo a la inevitable extinción
| Heading for inevitable extinction
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| Fingiendo alegres
| pretending happy
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| Que no hay ocasos
| that there are no sunsets
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| Sonrientes bajo una misma luz
| Smiling under the same light
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| Todos seremos igual que payasos
| We will all be just like clowns
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| Bajo la carpa del cielo azul | Under the blue sky tent |