Lyrics of Adan Garcia - Rubén Blades

Adan Garcia (original)

El ultimo dia en la vida de Adan Garcia lo hall como todos
los otros de su pasado: soando ganarse el «Gordo» en la Loteria, los hijos y la mujer durmiendo a su lado.
Adan sali de su casa, al mediodia, despus de una discusin
muy acalorada: su esposa queria pedirle plata a los suegros,
y Adan besaba a sus hijos mientras gritaba:
«Esto se acab, vida.
La ilusin se fu, vieja, y el tiempo
es mi enemigo.
En vez de vivir con miedo, mejor es morir
sonriendo, con el recuerdo vivo».
Por ultima vez entr en la tienda del barrio y le fiaron un paquete de cigarrillos.
Por la Avenida Central lo vieron andando,
«sin rumbo, las manos dentro de los bolsillos».
«Desde que a Adan fue botado de su trabajo», dijo un vecino,
«not en su forma de ser un cambio muy raro.
l, siempre muy
vivaracho, ahora andaba quieto.
Pero en la tranquilidad del desesperado.»
Dice el parte policial que Adan lleg a un Banco y le grit a la cajera que le entregara todo el dinero que ella en su caja tuviera
y que si no lo hacia pronto, l la mataba.
«El hombre me amenaz con una pistola», dijo una doa, «por eso
es que le daba lo que l quisiera.
Por la clase de salario que aqui
me pagan no voy a arriesgar la vida que Dios me diera.»
Cuentan que al salir Adan corriendo del Banco se hall con una
patrulla parqueada al frente;
que no le hizo caso al guardia que le di el «Alto»;
que iba, «gritando y sonriendo como un demente».
Al otro dia, los peridicos publicaban la foto de su cadaver en calzoncillos.
La viuda de Adan ley, en la primera plana:
«Ladrn usaba el revolver de agua de su chiquillo».
«Esto se acab, vida.
La ilusin se fu, vieja.
El tiempo es mi enemigo.
Y yo, pa' vivir con miedo, prefiero morir sonriendo, con el recuerdo vivo».

(translation)

The last day in the life of Adan Garcia I found him like everyone else
the others from his past: dreaming of winning the "Gordo" in the Lottery, the children and the wife sleeping next to him.
Adan left his house from him, at noon, after an argument
very heated: his wife wanted to ask the in-laws for money,
and Adam kissed his sons from him while he cried out:
"This is over, life.
The illusion is gone, old, and time
is my enemy.
Instead of living in fear, it is better to die
smiling, with the memory alive».
For the last time he entered the neighborhood store and was credited with a pack of cigarettes.
They saw him walking along Central Avenue,
"Aimlessly, hands in pockets."
"Since Adan got kicked out of his job," a neighbor said,
“not in his way of being a very rare change.
l, always very
lively, now he was still.
But in the tranquility of the desperate.»
The police report says that Adan arrived at a bank and yelled at the teller to give him all the money she had in her box.
and that if he didn't do it soon, he would kill her.
"The man threatened me with a gun," said one doa, "that's why
is that he gave him what he wanted.
For the kind of salary here
they pay me, I am not going to risk the life that God gave me.”
They say that when Adan ran out of the Bank he found a
patrol parked out front;
that he did not pay attention to the guard who gave him the "Stop";
that he was going, "screaming and smiling like a madman."
The next day, the newspapers published the photo of his corpse of him in his underpants.
The widow of Adan Ley, on the front page:
"Thief used his boy's water revolver on him."
"This is over, life.
The illusion is gone, old woman.
Time is my enemy.
And I, to live in fear, I prefer to die smiling, with the memory alive».