| Fria como una estatua de sal
| cold as a pillar of salt
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| En un mauseleo de cristal
| In a glass mausoleum
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| Seca hasta los huesos por llorar
| dry to the bone from crying
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| Y muerta como puede estar
| And dead as can be
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| Tiberio en su guacal
| Tiberius in his guacal
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| Toda en ruinas como el partenon
| All in ruins like the parthenon
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| Sola como termino colon
| Alone as colon ended
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| Palida como una mona lisa
| pale as a mona lisa
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| Amargada como un limon
| bitter as a lemon
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| Arrugada como acordeon
| Wrinkled like an accordion
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| Como la esfinge cuando perdi
| Like the sphinx when I lost
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| Su nariz
| His nose
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| Como alejandro magno sin
| like alexander the great without
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| Su espada y sin su dardo,
| His sword from him and without his dart from him,
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| Como un pobre cristino en
| Like a poor Christian in
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| Pleno imperio romano
| full roman empire
|
| Busco algo que pueda contestar
| I'm looking for something I can answer
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| Porque estoy cansada de pensar
| Cause I'm tired of thinking
|
| Como es que transcurren los segundos
| How is it that the seconds pass
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| Y yo sobrevivo este diluvio universal
| And I survive this universal flood
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| Sin mas esfuerzo la explicacion
| Without further effort the explanation
|
| Aparece en un viejo cajon
| Appears in an old drawer
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| Y en menos de una sola fraccion
| And in less than a single fraction
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| Vuelve a vivir y se viste de verde
| She lives again and dresses in green
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| El corazon
| The heart
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| Coro:
| Chorus:
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| Como la esfinge cuando perdio
| Like the sphinx when he lost
|
| Su nariz
| His nose
|
| Como alejandro magno sin
| like alexander the great without
|
| Su espada y sin su dardo
| His sword from him and without his dart
|
| Como un pobre cristino en
| Like a poor Christian in
|
| Pleno imperio romano
| full roman empire
|
| Vuelve, vuelve
| come back, come back
|
| Vuelve, vuelve
| come back, come back
|
| Que mi vida se desliza por un cano
| That my life slides down a drain
|
| Que mis pies de estar
| let my feet be
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| Parados tienen callos
| Unemployed have calluses
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| Ya no se como decirte que
| I don't know how to tell you anymore
|
| Te extrano
| I miss you
|
| Y ya en estas he pasado
| And in these I have already passed
|
| Mas de un ano
| More than a year
|
| Coro:
| Chorus:
|
| Como la esfinge cuando perdio
| Like the sphinx when he lost
|
| Su nariz
| His nose
|
| Como alejandro magno sin
| like alexander the great without
|
| Su espada y sin su dardo
| His sword from him and without his dart
|
| Como un pobre cristino en
| Like a poor Christian in
|
| Pleno imperio romano
| full roman empire
|
| Vuelve, vuelve
| come back, come back
|
| Vuelve, vuelve
| come back, come back
|
| vuelve, vuelve
| come back, come back
|
| vuelve, vuelve
| come back, come back
|
| Que mi barca se esta
| That my boat is
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| Hundiendo en el lodo
| Sinking in the mud
|
| Que de angustia me he
| How anguished I have
|
| Mordido hasta los codos
| bitten up to the elbows
|
| Que mi mundo esta vacio y
| That my world is empty and
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| Aburrido
| Bored
|
| Que me muero por tenerte
| that I'm dying to have you
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| Aqui conmigo | Here with me |