| The afternoons of Buenos Aires
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| they have that what do I know, did you see?
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| You leave your house, through Arenales.
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| The usual: on the street and in you...
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| When suddenly,
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| from behind a tree,
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| I show up.
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| Penultimate Linyera Rare Mix
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| and first stowaway on the trip to Venus:
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| half a melon on the head,
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| the stripes of the shirt painted on the skin,
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| two half soles nailed to the feet,
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| and a taxi flag
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| free raised in each hand.
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| You laugh!
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| You laugh!
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| But only you see me:
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| because the mannequins wink at me;
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| traffic lights give me
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| three celestial lights,
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| and the oranges from the greengrocer on the corner
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| They throw orange blossoms at me.
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| Come!, Come, so,
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| half dancing and half flying,
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| I take out my melon to greet you,
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| I give you a little flag, and I tell you...
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| (Sung)
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| I know I'm piantao,
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| piantao, piantao...
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| Don't you see that the moon goes
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| rolling through Callao;1
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| that a parade of astronauts
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| and children, with a waltz,
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| dance around me...
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| Dance! |
| Come! |
| Fly!
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| I know I'm piantao,
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| piantao, piantao...
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| I look at Buenos Aires
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| from the nest of a sparrow;2
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| and I saw you so sad...
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| Come! |
| Fly! |
| I felt…
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| the crazy berretín
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| what do I have for you:
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| Mad! |
| Mad! |
| Mad!
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| when it gets dark
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| in your porteña3 loneliness,
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| along the shore
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| I will come from your sheet
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| with a poem and a trombone
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| to reveal your heart.
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| Mad! |
| Mad! |
| Mad!
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| like an acrobat
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| insane I will jump,
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| over the abyss of your neckline
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| until you feel
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| that I drove your heart crazy
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| of freedom…
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| You'll see!
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| (Recitation)
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| Let's go fly, my dear;
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| get on my super-sport illusion,
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| and we will run for the ledges
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| with a swallow in the engine!
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| From Vieytes4 they applaud us:
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| "Live! |
| Live!",
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| the madmen who invented Love;
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| and an angel and a soldier and a girl
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| They give us a dancing waltz.
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| The beautiful people come out to greet us...
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| And crazy, but yours,
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| what do I know!
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| I cause bell towers with laughter,
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| and finally, I look at you, and I sing
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| to half voice:
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| (Sung)
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| Love me like this, piantao,
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| piantao, piantao...
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| climb on this tenderness
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| crazy in me,
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| put on this wig
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| of larks, and fly!
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| Fly with me now!
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| Come, fly, come!
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| Love me like this, piantao,
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| piantao, piantao...
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| open the love
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| what are we going to try
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| the magical madness
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| total revive…
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| Come, fly, come!
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| Trai-lai-la-larará!
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| (Shouted out)
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| Live! |
| Live! |
| Live!
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| long live the crazy
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| who invented love!
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| Live! |
| Crazy her and crazy me…
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| Crazy her and crazy me… |