| Ya son las once y media y tú en la cama
| It's already half past eleven and you in bed
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| -me dijo mi morena gozadora-
| -my enjoying brunette told me-
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| ¿no crees que ya iría siendo hora
| don't you think it would be time
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| De hacer un sacrificio por la causa?
| To make a sacrifice for the cause?
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| Le dije, encendiendo un cigarrillo:
| I told him, lighting a cigarette:
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| El mundo se está hundiendo en la demencia
| The world is sinking into insanity
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| Y tú haciendo gala de inconsciencia
| And you displaying unconsciousness
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| Me pones entre el yunque y el martillo
| You put me between the anvil and the hammer
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| ¡Free, Nelson Mandela set him… Free!
| Free, Nelson Mandela set him… Free!
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| Después me reprochó por haber vuelto
| Later he reproached me for having returned
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| Cocido, tipo tres de la mañana;
| Cooked, type three in the morning;
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| De haberla despertado con mis ganas
| Of having woken her up with my desire
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| De transgredir el sexto mandamiento
| Of transgressing the sixth commandment
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| Le dije: Qui va piano va lontano
| I told him: Qui va piano va lontano
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| La paz es solamente provisoria
| Peace is only provisional
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| Y no es por levantarme que la historia
| And it's not because I got up that the story
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| Va a amanecer un poco más temprano
| It's going to wake up a little earlier
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| Le dije que no hiciera una tormenta
| I told her not to make a storm
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| En una simple copa de vinacho
| In a simple glass of vinegar
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| Que no era por ponerme vivaracho
| That it wasn't to get lively
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| Que es duro de llegar a los cuarenta
| That it is hard to reach forty
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| Mañana tal vez no estaré contigo
| Tomorrow maybe I won't be with you
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| Y el mundo no será sino una ruina
| And the world will be but a ruin
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| ¿por qué no te lo tomas con andina
| why don't you take it with andina
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| Y vienes a pecar aquí conmigo? | And you come to sin here with me? |