A keresés eredménye oldal 27

Life walk

Versions: #2
They were talking about you last night
They said that you don’t sing anymore
those border(line) verses
as beautiful as your youth
 
but if the heart has a broken wing
you just have to treat it because
it has not yet healed,
other travels are awaiting you
 
because of your instinct
to never give up
that's how you know
that the journey will start again
 
each one of us
has its own way to go
take a breath, but then
don't stop walking
 
even if they seem harder than ever,
those climbs for your heart,
each one of us
can resist, you know it,
clinging to a ray of sunshine
 
and if life cheats us
when it first tests
and then teaches us
the hardest lesson for us
 
but it teaches us that every storm
can rip a beautiful flower
but not the entire spring,
it cannot raze it to the ground, it cannot
 
because of your instinct
to never give up
that's how you know
that the journey will start again
 
each one of us
has its own way to go
take a breath, but then
don't stop walking
 
even if they seem harder than ever,
those climbs for your heart,
each one of us
can resist, you know it,
clinging to a ray of sunshine
 
we begin to die only in the moment
when we lose the fire of passion
 
each one of us
has its own way to go
 
follow the footsteps of your dreams
who knows where you can arrive
who knows
 
each one of us
has its own way to go
 
even if they seem harder than ever,
those climbs for your heart,
each one of us
can resist, you know it,
clinging to a ray of sunshine
the sun is above us
above us
 

I know what I'm doing

Everyone, everyone is saying that I'm nothing but a simple child
Everyone, everyone is saying that I've lost the key to my heart.
 
Suddenly I can't talk or think
You look at me, I look at you, and I don't have a pulse anymore
You laugh at me, and I try to remain logical
I only feel for you...
 
This isn't a crazy moment
I know what I'm doing
Kiss me as much as you can tonight
I know what I'm doing
I've fallen in love for the first time, tell me how you did this to me.
 
Everyone, everyone is saying that the rules are ignoring me
Everyone, everyone is saying that my records are forever sealed.
 
Suddenly I can't talk or think
You look at me, I look at you, and I don't have a pulse anymore
You laugh at me, and I try to remain logical
I only feel for you...
 
This isn't a crazy moment
I know what I'm doing
Kiss me as much as you can tonight
I know what I'm doing
I've fallen in love for the first time, tell me how you did this to me.
 
-Βασιλική Οικονομοπούλου

To the other side of infinity

I write to you everyday
And I get to meet you once again for small talk,
and I feel you off in the distance
and so my hand sort of tremble.
 
Everyday here on Earth
I honor it to tell you about
me, you, our home
of my desire to hug you.
 
So that I feel you right beside me
So that I hear you breathin'
I cradle that baby in my arms
Whom couldn't keep on loving
Loving
 
Nothing's over
nothing has ever happened
You only crossed
The other side of infinity
And right within infinity
I'll be able to see you again
I know there's nothing more certain
than the point wherein the horizon
meets with the open sea
The open sea
 
In a much less hard life
in much less cruel times
Walking down the streets
walking together, always
 
So that I feel you right beside me
I ain't afraid to wait for you
 
Nothing's over
nothing has ever happened
You only crossed
The other side of infinity
And right within infinity
I'll be able to see you again
I know there's nothing more certain
than the point wherein the horizon
meets with the open sea
The open sea
 
Nothing's over
nothing has ever happened
 
A letter for you
A love letter
A letter for me
To heal this pain
 
Refrain...
 

We are

We are fine glass, hard for life
We are flower of a road full of mines
We are like a beautiful infinite land
We feel and do not pretend
 
We are just that, what we say
And we close ranks before an enemy world
And the passion we live has no end
Everything done with good style
Everything with good style
 
We are stone thrown to the sky
That will travel through the night arriving to a star
And together we are truly perfect
We are the most beautiful thing, we are two twin souls
 
And we are sparkles, we are dynamite
The best starts now, we are at the exit
Like the happy end of any written story
That's you and me
 
There isn't a motto as beautiful
As strong as you and I
And there aren't affections as big
As you and I
 
We are going against the flow and a step ahead
We are two ever communicating vessels
 
We are precisely that which we don't need to think
So natural that nothing could prevent it
 
We are stone thrown to the sky
That will travel through the night arriving to a star
And together we are truly perfect
We are the most beautiful thing, we are two twin souls
 
And we are sparkles, we are dynamite
The best starts now, we are at the exit
Like the happy end of any written story
That's you and me
 
There isn't a motto as beautiful
As strong as you and I
And there aren't affections as big
As you and I
As you and I
 
Of all things
I've seen in the world
There isn't any as beautiful
As you and I
And there's no story
Ever told
To be as true
As you and I
 
We are dynamite
The best starts now, we are at the exit
Like the happy end of any written story
That's you and me
 
There isn't a motto as beautiful
As strong as you and I
Or any thing as beautiful as you
As you and I
 

I Know What I'm Doing

Everyone, they all say
that I'm not such an easy child.
Everyone, they all say
that I've lost the key to my heart.
 
Suddenly, I can't talk, can't think
You look at me, I look at you, and my heart skips a beat*
You smile at me, I try to explain everything that I feel about you in a logical way
 
It isn't the madness of the moment
I know what I'm doing
Kiss me tonight as much as you can
I know what I'm doing
For the first time, I'm in love
Tell me how you did this
 
Everyone, they all say
that the rules generally don't suit me
Everyone, they all say
that I always play my cards close
 
Suddenly, I can't talk, can't think
You look at me, I look at you, and my heart skips a beat
You smile at me, I try to explain everything that I feel about you in a logical way
 
It isn't the madness of the moment
I know what I'm doing
Kiss me tonight as much as you can
I know what I'm doing
For the first time, I'm in love
Tell me how you did this
 

The Lake of Hope

Versions: #2
It's too late for me to love,
Or perhaps it is too early,
I do not believe as I once used to,
The Sea of Joy has gotten shallow, and the River of Love froze over,
But the Lake of Hope is what I'm left with.
The Sea of Joy has gotten shallow, and the River of Love froze over,
But the Lake of Hope is what I'm left with.
 
Lake of Hope please take me,
Take me as I am,
Let them all have judged me,
But you must understand!
Lake of Hope, call out the name,
And tell me where I could escape from love....
 
And the hallway mirror will shatter,
And the guitar strings will snap,
I will wear garments white as snow.
I will slam the doors behind me, and upon a moonlit night, I will come to the Lake of Hope.
I will slam the doors behind me, and upon a moonlit night, I will come to the Lake of Hope.
 
Lake of Hope please take me,
Take me as I am,
Let them all have judged me,
But you must understand!
Lake of Hope, call out the name,
And tell me where I could escape from love....
 
You must forgive me, my angel, you kept me safe in vain
I cannot be the way I was before.
I will throw off the white garments, I will enter the living waters, waters of the unrequited Hope.
 
Lake of Hope please take me,
Take me as I am,
Let them all have judged me,
But you must understand!
Lake of Hope, call out the name,
And tell me where I could escape from love....
 

He's a Hero

Bless the guy Hercules
The guy who was loved in all of Greece
He has all the attention
He could defeat any monster at all
 
He was just normal (just normal)
Now he's great (He's a hero!)
A little kid with great energy
Used to be normal, now a hero
Was normal, now he's great!
 
His smile makes girls (go crazy!)
They paint him portraits - 'On flower vases!'
He had great sums of money
He had so much cash!
Now he's famous
He can do anything!
 
He's great,
He's in action
He couldn't have suspected!*
He's so perfect
People gathered to see him
His body is perfect and so handsome
Hercules came down
Everyone was so stunned
He showed strength
He used to be normal, now he's great
Was normal... and who is he?
 
Who is the gladiator? Hercules!
Who's as brave as theater? Hercules!
He's cool (he's brave)
He's sweet (everyone's idol!)
Hercules! Hercules!
Hercules! Hercules!
Hercules! Hercule!
Bless him, the hero
Always wins!
He's flying
The best guy
Unequaled!
Was normal (normal, normal)
Now a hero (he's a hero!)
He reaches the sky
He used to be normal
He's a hero
He's a herooooooooo-
He is indeed!
 

Certo

Almost full moon
Disgusted feelings
Little soul that awaits
Spring love
The wind
The shadow that scares away
The caged aura
The wet sepia
Howls at you at night
Wakes up early
Filling the past lives with colors
Towards the river that flows into the sea
Under the streets of this land
 
Emerging thoughts
Constructing realities
Wise little aura that awaits you
With your dreams of jazmins
Yearning for that present of disgusted emotions
Crossing big waters
Mirroring the depths
Self-transformation
Self-generation
Flapping towards the heights
Going forward on the path
 
Between stones, cacti
Hugs and cottonballs
From your pupils it comes
A well with infinite water
Towards the plexus of my insides
Where it hurts, don't have doubts
True path
 
Always forward
They work like airs
Renivating crystals
They mumble tenderly
Long live unstacked love!
 
Where it hurts, don't have doubts
Where it hurts, don't have doubts, don't have doubts
Where it hurts, don't have doubts
True path, true path
 
Almost full moon
Disgusted feelings
Little soul that awaits
Spring love
The wind
The shadow that scares away
The caged aura
The wet sepia
Howls at you at night
Wakes up early
Filling the past lives with colors
Towards the river that flows into the sea
Under the streets of this land
 
Emerging thoughts
Constructing realities
Wise little aura that awaits you
With your dreams of jazmins
Yearning for that present of disgusted emotions
Crossing big waters
Mirroring the depths
Self-transformation
Self-generation
Flapping towards the heights
Going forward on the path
 
Between stones, cacti
Hugs and cottonballs
From your pupils it comes
A well with infinite water
Towards the plexus of my insides
Where it hurts, don't have doubts
True path
 
Always forward
They work like airs
Renivating crystals
They mumble tenderly
Long live unstacked love!
 
Where it hurts, don't have doubts
Where it hurts, don't have doubts, don't have doubts
Where it hurts, don't have doubts
True path, true path
 
Where it hurts, don't have doubts
Where it hurts, don't have doubts, don't have doubts
Where it hurts, don't have doubts
True path, true path
 

You Will Cry on Christmas

Christmas will come
and once again you will cry
if the snow buries
my love.
 
Once again you will hear
other lips say
that his love will
heal your pain.
 
Christmas will pass,
but you will not feel
the trembling of my voice
nor the warmth of my mouth
when I say goodbye.
 
Christmas will return,
another feverish romance,
and another shining star
you will see.
 
But I swear to God,
that even if I have to die,
you never again will
have my love.
 
Christmas will return,
another feverish romance,
and another shining star
you will see.
 
But I swear to God,
that even if I have to die,
you never again will
have my love...on Christmas.
 

Steam Iron

While she was ironing
she thought that it was dawning
and a ship was blasting its horn
Like back then, when we used to choose,
with whom we might have been leaving,
slaves to our first love.
 
And she used to have a steam iron
and a bit of sweat on her neck
Saturday afternoon near the edge of the kitchen wall
She turns around and sprays a collar
and suddenly says to her husband
that this month is gone as well.
 
While she was ironing
she pictured that she was taming
a lion on her knees
She folds a shirt
with her one and a half year old son
like a ball of yarn near her feet
 
And she used to have a steam iron
and a bit of sweat on her neck
Saturday afternoon near the edge of the kitchen wall
She turns around and sprays a collar
and suddenly says to her husband
that this month is gone as well.
 
While she was ironing
she thought she'd like to devote
her life to someone
Her, that she used to climb her yard wall
and she would recognize her husband
by her breath.
 
And she used to have a steam iron
and a bit of sweat on her neck
Saturday afternoon near the edge of the door
She presses against a difficult pleat
she interrupts her dream
and switches all the lights on.
 

In love

Something's wrong with me
I am thinking too much about you
I look like I'm lost
and I keep asking about you
 
I wonder what's wrong with me
love is to blame and ties us
and for how long it goes my mind takes me
I think I'm in love
and faster my heart beats
when you're in my arms
I claim to be obsessed
with you in love
 
something's wrong
I know, I want you more and more
I can't control myself
I don't have any logic
and I kept asking why
 
I wonder what's wrong with me
love is to blame and ties us
and for how long it goes my mind takes me
I think I'm in love
and faster my heart beats
when you're in my arms
I claim to be obsessed
with you in love
 

Cherophobia

How can I explain you what is like to be afraid of being happy,
If not even my friends understood that?
They tell me to keep calm when I need to,
They bring me some hot milk and blankets
And it's right when they're talking to me
That I'd want to scream: 'Thank you all, you can go now',
But I stay here
Watching a film
 
How can I explain you how patient I am?
Problem is I can't live without
Something that can oppress me,
That makes me realise that one day this life will be over,
Because my brain is really made of thorns1
And my heart is like a flower
In that it still believes in good
And doesn't know that its petals will fall off all at once,
In that moment it will want to just explode,
It will yell at me: 'Stop loving'
 
This is my cherophobia,
No, it's not negativity,
This is my cherophobia,
Happiness scares me,
But, you, stay here
 
How can I explain it, if no one understands you,
If nothing affects you,
Total indifference
For the astral form of evil,
We've built a special relationship
And I try to tell this in every song of mine
 
But people always think I'm talking about someone else:
'You're so pretty, you've got such a baby face, such a child voice...',
But that child grew up too fast
Between the walls of her bedroom
Where she started not feeling safe2
And everytime things work out,
I think I don't have the energy to bear it
 
And I look for every form of pain
Mixed with sweat and blood
And I feel like I can't breathe anymore,
Feel like my anxiety is getting stronger and stronger,
Let me out of this bloody room
 
This is my cherophobia,
No, it's not negativity,
This is my cherophobia,
Happiness scares me,
But, you, stay here
 
Tell you we'll be together,
Tell you we'll be fine,
Tell you this is how it's going to go,
Tell you we'll be together,
Tell you: 'I won't be fine'
 
My anxiety is coming at me
 

• 1. Tricky line here. You can also interpret 'strafatto' with 'very high' as in on drugs, but both options don't make any sense to me.
• 2. 'stare stretto' literally means 'be tight', but it's also used to say that something isn't for you and doesn't suit you.

Nature's Song

What has become of the noblemen and lords, who changed the laws of nature,
They uprooted the bowels of the earth, they have emptied the storehouses of life,
You noblemen and lords, tell me where are the rivers and the rainfall, Ailing are the mountain trees and in the garden the wells are dry,
O cloud, he who drained you so you no longer can be filled with water, whoever poisoned you, murders all life on earth,
 
They sell the light of the morning star and steal a poor man's sunshine,
O God, they beat on your front door, the windows of heaven open.
 

Peppermint soda

Your high school ring binders
hold your dreams and secrets,
all these words you never say.
Words of love and tenderness,
words of a woman
that are frowned upon, so you hide them.
So you hide them, little Anne.
 
Your high school ring binders
hold blood and tears,
the first wounds of your heart.
The first wounds,
harrowing blows
that bruise your soul,
that bruise your soul, little Anne.
 
In the high school cafés
you have to bluff and lie
While drinking peppermint soda1
you'll brag about
last summer's nights
and all these first lovers
you had only in your dreams.
 
Your high school ring binders
hold your dreams and secrets,
all these words you never say.
Words of love and tenderness,
words of a woman
that are frowned upon, so you hide them.
So you hide them, little Anne.
 

• 1. the song is the main theme of a about teenage girls in the 60's.
  A great movie, by the way.

Dangerous Mind

The lips that expressed love
Are now a knife stuck within my heart
The love that meant everything to me is now a nightmare
It’s stepped on, it’s filthy
I’ve forgotten how to live with values
I’m like a withering flower
 
I say put him up!
It seemed to last forever
I say put him up!
Love has already become a venomous snake
I say put him up!
The future will resemble a dark dream
The thing to do is break away
 
I can never forget
To me, dangerous, your mind
They can never stop it
To me, dangerous tonight
I will kill you and your filthy love
Along with the destiny that smirks at me
 
He will be never stoppin’ what they do
And yes or not! Come on,
Forget about beliefs
That path has been destroyed
Since your world is no more, you lose
You’ll have to accept it
 
Pump that, pump that, pump that, pump that
You avoid strong people
Because your family is weak
Oh, that won’t help at all.
 
You make a hell inside, beating every night.
Are you crying when I’m crying?
You hurt me everyday.
 
It’s gonna break apart, it’s gonna kill my pride
You’ve given up on
What you needed to protect
Break your home. No more, not today
You’ve done unforgivable things
Get rid of your mistakes
 
How many days do I have to live
Filled with love?
Will I have to the courage to forgive?
 
Despair has pushed you onto the rough ground
You can’t get back up
Will you have enough strength to help yourself?
 
Fun that, fun that, fun that, fun that
The beautiful world is disturbed by lies
Uh,uh. Come on, let me talking about that,
Funky town it’s the funky town
Made a tricky tricky world
 
Fun that, fun that, fun that, fun that.
The world tries to look away
There’s no need to argue about values
So let’s get excited about it
 
I can never forget
To me, dangerous, your mind.
They can never stop it
To me, dangerous tonight.
I will kill you and your filthy love
Along with the destiny that smirks at me
 

Lucky girl

You have been lucky all your life
I am jealous of you because many love you
They all ask, want to be around you
To share the air you beautify
And you give life to everything
 
I think about you
I think about you all alone
Αt a military camp at a godforsaken place
I think about you
And I dream
That I see a tear for me in your eyes
 
Lucky girl, there's a word meaning loneliness
You don't know it, but I know it well
It makes the nights endless, it brings darkness
You want to cry, laugh, hit and kick
Bang your head on the wall but I...
 
I think about you
I always think about you
At a military camp at a godforsaken place
I think about you
And I dream
That I see a tear for me in your eyes (x2)
 

I Can No Longer Say I Love You

I can no longer say I love you.
Do not ask me why,
I feel neither joy nor sorrow
When your eyes fall upon me.
 
If loneliness weighs you down,
When you come to pass through here,
And because a friend has forgotten you,
You can always count on me.
 
I can no longer say I love you,
Without biting my tongue.
Too many snakes under the caresses,
Too much passion for drawing knives.
 
However hard the loneliness may be
It leads you back to your destiny
The laws of true love are rough
For those who've mistaken the path.
 
I can no longer say that I love you.
Do not ask my why,
You and I are no longer the same,
Why love comes and goes.
 
If loneliness weighs you down
When destiny leads you here
And because a friend has forgotten you,
You can always count on me.
 

To see again

At the dawn of the watershed
No, it's not done
What, however, used to please
So much already done
All these beautiful landscapes, age can make fun of them
But to move the clouds, We have to go there
 
To think of going up
Onto this moon
The eyes, for our feathers
To move and bring fortune back to our
Filled-with-mist heads
 
This isn't a goodbye
I used to think more from the top, to see
The beautiful story again
Without being scared
Of time passing
Or height
 
Without fear of the sky, nor the Eternal
Time has abjured
Without fear of piquency, the naturalness
Of a past note
 
To think of going up
Onto this moon
The eyes, for our feathers
To move and bring fortune back to our
Filled-with-mist heads
 
This isn't a goodbye
I used to think more from the top, to see
The beautiful story again
Without being scared
Of time passing
Or height
(x2)
 
And if you're afraid of fitting
Look well at all these people
It isn't a dream, it's life
 
This isn't a goodbye
I used to think more from the top, to see
The beautiful story again
Without being scared
Of time passing
Or height
(x3)
 

I'm looking forward

I'm looking forward to find you,
I'm far away, 'cause it's late here,
I'm looking forward to find you,
I'm far away, it hasn't gone wrong.
 
(Cry, cry), my sorrows of love cry.
(Cry, cry), my sorrows for you cry,
(Cry, cry), my sorrows of love are crying their hearts out.
 
I really like your legs when they sway,
as if they were waves.
 
From what it seems,
I liked your sea and your canoe.
 
I'm looking forward to find you,
once and for all,
the long winter is gone,
and the fashions have already changed.
 
(Cry, cry), my sorrows of love cry.
(Cry, cry), my sorrows for you cry,
(Cry, cry), my sorrows of love are crying their hearts out.
 
I really like your legs when they sway,
as if they were waves.
 
From what it seems,
I liked your sea and your canoe.
 
(I'll love you) I'll tell you just one thing,
(I'll love you) I need a shelter,
(I'll love you) 'cause this land it's cold,
(I'll love you) if you are not in my side,
(I'll love you) and there isn't anybody like you,
(I'll love you) the moon doesn't shine so much,
(I'll love you) I'm looking forward to find you,
(I'll love you) I want to take you with me to love you.
 

I want to know about you

Where are you, dear?
I want to know about you.
 
Now that I've found you again,
I smile again,
the light of the beautiful city, linked us,
and that love that one day went away.
 
It's never late to begin,
I still love you,
I want to know if you love hasn't died,
if it's true what you have inside.
 
I want to know about you,
I want to know that you want to continue,
I want to know that being far away you thought about me,
Nothing else matters because I want to love you again.
 
I'll tell you about me,
about all the nights I would spend,
looking at your photography and my loneliness,
now I smile again because you're here.
 
Look, I'm not scared, I want your body, I have nothing.
Look, i want you kisses and your looks.
You are the most beautiful thing of my life, of my soul.
You are what I always expected in my life.
 
I want to know about you,
I want to know that you will love me again,
I want to know if being far away you thought about me.
Nothing else matters because I want to love you again.
 
I have never forgotten your love,
so pure and so tender,
It's like the instinct that God sent us,
to make this world more beautiful.
 
I swore before God that I love you,
I don't ever regret it,
while there is light in the sun, I'll love you,
this love I feel is eternal.
 
I don't care if I die,
because I know I'll revive out of love,
don't be afraid because I'll love you forever,
and you know my heart will live for you.
 
You will feel for me,
the same love I always have in my heart,
because you feel trapped with the illusion,
of feeling always the kindness I gave you.
 
Look, don't be afraid, I know you miss me,
I know you love me,
Look what you are saying with your look.
 
I don't care if I die,
because I know I'll revive out of love,
don't be afraid because I'll love you forever,
and you know my heart will live for you.
 
I want to know about you,
I want to know if you will love me again,
I want to know if being far away you thought about me.
Nothing else matters because I want to love you again.
 
I'll tell you about me,
about all the nights I would spend,
looking at your photography and my loneliness,
now I smile again because you're here.
 

Gambler's cuplé

If you really feel like playing
If you really feel like playing
Here comes the player, this is your chance
Don't be left wanting to play
 
Come on Mr Gambler, don't be shy
We want you to tell us what you can play
Come on Mr Gambler, don't be shy
We want you to tell us what you can play
 
Well, well. How is it going for ya?
You're doing well? All well boys?
Can you believe it boys?
Today was a deadly day for me
Until the casino opened
And this afternoon I had three. Three passes with the craps.
The casino opened and I went plucked
Besides you gotta know some things boys. Pim, pum, pam.
 
For money I played even Ludo
Chinese checkers and also chess
Cup-and-ball, mus and bluff
And poker dice, I played for money
Baccarat, Old Maid and Rummy
The war and gofo I also practiced
When I was a kid, with the trading cards
Tops and marbles, I got tangled
 
Craps, sette e mezzo and conga
Chorizo and jacks, escoba and chinchon
I'm a fan of horse racing pools
I play roulette and billiards
My passion is the russian roulette
and I can't find anyone who wants to play
 
Stop with the games, you vicious gambler
You're all gamblers and you look like idiots
There are people who never played in their lives
That's impossible, I'll explain it now
 
Everything is a gambling game, I'll demonstrate it to you
If you don't interrupt me and let me talk
If we cross with the red light, that's a bet for sure
And also recommending a friend for a job
It's a bet to buy cheap in an outlet
It's a bet to call the service for repairing the TV
It's a bet to date her if you just met her
And it's a bet when she says 'do it careless'
 
Look at his look, what an ugly guy
This character is a great gambler
Sometimes an outcast, sometimes a fat cat
The bucks come today, they leave tomorrow
 
The two packs of cigarettes that you smoke are a bet
Or when you do a test even if you don't know a lot
People are all gamblers, you'll see I'm not lying
Figure out that today there are still weddings
 
This gambler will be the accused
You friends will be the jury
Let's listen him, letting him talk
But we believe the guy is guilty
 
I beg you murguistas to listen to me
Because my wish is of sharing
My experience on this stage
In that big game called living
When we're children we play happily
The beautiful game of hide-and-seek
When we're adults, we go searching
But we get tagged everyday
 
Look at his look, what an ugly guy
This character is a great gambler
Sometimes an outcast, sometimes a fat cat
The bucks come today, they leave tomorrow
 
The boys play with the tops
Pulling the string that unrolls
Then there are men who with a slash
They throw you far from the circle
The Hopscotch, what a beautiful game
With chalk and pebbles painted on the floor
When you're adult, you jump around
But nobody reaches the heaven
 
This gambler will be the accused
You friends will be the jury
Let's listen him, letting him talk
But we believe the guy is guilty
 
You get a full and they accuse you
You standed with twenty but you pay anyway
With the jacks you only bet this
And with the pool you get busted
This life sirs, is a tute
Where bidding the least is to lose
More than that, this life is a truco
You need falta y resto to win
 
You've defended yourself with big eloquence
We see that you proved your innocence very well
The last question is fundamental
Tell us if you bet on the carnival
 
Hahaha, are you all high boys, ha!
You drank everything, eh? What a mess!
How I'm not going to bet on the carnival?
If... if the carnival was my life.
Whoa, whoa. What a pretty melody.
It's a pretty melody to tell
To the boys of Falta y Resto and my life
That we always have to bet
Because life is one single game
 
If I could achieve one more instant to God Time
To make the farce stop in reality
I'd dress eternal clothings, lights and glitz
I'd paint my face and do again the role
The role, the role of the street Pierrot that drew
The smile that attracts joys of tender color
The clown who sings and laughs and can't stop his singing
Because his laughter is always a bet on the carnival
 
It's beautiful to bring to the neighbourhood flowers of illusion
It's beautiful to find an applause after a song
It's beautiful to make the people happy over and over again
To turn on with smiles the lights of your interest
The clown who sings and laughs and can't stop God Momo
Because his laughter is always a bet on the carnival
 

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The homeland comrade

You look at a child and another
and then many more
Their eyes don't say a thing
their mouths ask for bread
 
You look at the retired
who can't go on
gathered without understanding
what will happen to the,
 
And you see the lodgers
ghosts without a home
followed by the winter
looking without looking
looking without looking
 
The homeland, they said to you
and they said wrong
the homeland of Artigas
we'll have to find it.
We'll have to find it
even if it becomes
a needle in the haystack
 
It was fenced by friends
of Lecor or Alvear
and by those who betrayed
Artigas too
 
The homeland comrade
we're gonna find it
we're gonna find it
we're gonna find it
The homeland comrade
we're gonna find it
 

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I want to be a poet

I've learned how to walk
On top of the sun without burning my feel
I've been able to embrace it
Without feeling the heat they say it gives off
 
I've learned to fly
With the wind that blows just to see you
Even though you're so far
I'll come to look for you and later on, who knows
 
I want to be a poet
And tell you to your face
That I like you a little or, even better, madly
I want to be a poet
And beg you in person
To stay a little longer or, even better, forever
 
You scare me and I feel sorrow
Sorrow, little sorrow
 
I've learned to love you a little bit more every day
I've learned to forget you a little bit more every day
 
And I feel sorrow, little sorrow
 

Trophy Wife

When I grow up I want to be a trophy wife
I'll wait for you at home
with the checked slippers ready,
everything clean and the bed very well made up (as it should be!)
 
When I grow up I want to prepare your meals
while the kids round around the house
and although we don't see each other often
I always wait for you here
because I'm nothing without you and
 
I want to be your trophy
with my wide waist
very happy when you give me my weekly kiss
It's my dream to have everything clean
it's my dream to be in my robe
and tell the neighbours the disgraces that happen to me, I
 
want to be a trophy wife when I grow up (silence!)
your wishes will be orders
because you know more about everything, I want
to give all my time to your home (haha!)
 
I want to be your trophy
with my wide waist
very happy when you give me my weekly kiss
It's my dream to have everything clean
it's my dream to be in my robe
and tell the neighbours the disgraces that happen to me, I
 
want to be a trophy wife when I grow up
want to be a trophy wife when I grow up
when I grow up (taste!)
 
and I'll make dinner at night
while you watch the game or read a magazine (goal!)
and I won't stop talking about my home-loving day
You don't look at me, you don't listen to my, oh, how much I love you!
 
I want to be your trophy
with my wide waist
very happy when you give me my weekly kiss
It's my dream to have everything clean
it's my dream to be in my robe
and tell the neighbours the disgraces that happen to me, I
 
want to be a trophy wife when I grow up...
 

Fiatal & Veszedelmes

(Hustle)
Ay... Ay...
Szeretem ezt az életet
 
Ay... Ay...
Szeretem ezt az életet
 
1 (Kill)
Egyike azon napoknak, ami ma velem történt
A felfordulás megvolt, a festéket végigöntöttem az utadon
Nem tudták megmondani nekem, hogy az utolsó számlát póstázták, vagy hová ment
Ettől sikoltozni kezdtek, ezért magamra hagytak
 
Pre(Kill)
Nyújtottam a nyakam, válaszokért kutatva
Kikerültem a töltényt, mer' táncos vagyok
Kértem hadd lássam, bárki is legyen
De ők azt mondták veszedelmes, fiatal & hires
 
(Hustle) 2x
Senki se mondta hogy
Senki se mondta miért
Magam útján kell tennem
De ezt szeretem az életben
 
2 (Hustle)
A vasúti sin mindkét oldalán nőttem fel
Feldobhatsz egy érmét, én akkor emelek
Lefektetem a gondolataim majd visszajátszom
Van ajándékom az Istentől majd visszaadom
Ha nincs is semmim, azt sose veheted el
Nincstelenek célozgatnak, de mire céloznak?
A célpont a hátamon van? Az öreglányok az ölemben?
Én hater állón pörgök minden nap, ahol tartok ez tény
 
(Hustle) 2x
Senki se mondta hogy
Senki se mondta miért
Magam útján kell tennem
De ezt szeretem az életben
 
Break (Hustle)
Fiatal & Hires (ismételten)
 
Pre(Kill)
Nyújtottam a nyakam, válaszokért kutatva
Kikerültem a töltényt, mer' táncos vagyok
Kértem hadd lássam, bárki is legyen
De ők azt mondták veszedelmes, fiatal & hires
 
(Hustle) 2x
Senki se mondta hogy
Senki se mondta miért
Magam útján kell tennem
De ezt szeretem az életben
 
(Hustle) (Ismételten)
Ay... Ay...
Szeretem ezt az életet
 

What do you think of Veronika?

Oh father, oh father, says a girl,
I'm turning ten now
And already my heart is in turmoil
Caused by a sweet image
 
What do you think of Veronika,
The lovely Veronika?
I think something of Veronika,
That's why I visit her so often
 
I've got something for Veronika,
The darling Veronika
I want something from Veronika
And she wants something from me
 
She can — when it's dark
And if she takes a liking to you —
So incredibly, so fabulously play piano
 
That's why I go to Veronika,
The lovely Veronika
I play accordion
And she plays with me
 
The father went to work 1
And only came back at night
His old lady was snoring in bed,
Only the girl was up and spoke thusly:
 
Oh, leave me Veronika,
The lovely Veronika
I want something from Veronika
And she wants something from me
 
She can — when it's dark
And if she takes a liking to you —
So incredibly, so fabulously play piano
 
That's why I go to Veronika
And she plays with me
 

• 1. This line is a shot in the dark. The literal translation is 'The father went to the control.'

Looking for your love

From far away
I come looking for your love.
If you look at me with contempt
I go away crying.
And if you are firm with me,
constant I am.
 
Inside the chest, hidden,
I bring you a flower.
If you don't want it, my life,
I leave it and I go away.
And if you are firm with me,
constant I am.
 
Flower that has been born in the soul
and in the heart.
If your scorn kill me
I go away crying.
And if you are firm with me,
constant I am.
 
It's nice to constantly love
as I love you,
to death
Oh, how handsome (death is)
(if I'm) dying for you!
 
And if you are firm with me,
constant I am,
constant I am.
 

Atamishqui or Salavina

I don't know which one to stay with:
Atamishqui or Salavina,
I will be a bird flying
with my yearning divided (between one place and the other).
 
If the growing river comes
moving forward through the fields
I will go away with my sadness
bordering the wetlands.
 
Of starry nights
I will cry with the vidalas*
ancient distances
in the soul preserved.
 
I don't know which one to stay with:
Atamishqui or Salavina,
two homelands without borders
tied together by life.
 
I will retrace the path
of that old vidalero
who remained bewitched
by the hill and its mysteries.
 
If the strings of violins and guitars
have been cut,
the sweetest memories
feed my nostalgia.
 
I will be a lost trail
by the saltpetre mine,
subdued rumours
of distant carnivals.
 
I don't know which one to stay with:
Atamishqui or Salavina,
two homelands without borders
tied together by life.
 

Destiny of guitarist

I want to separate from the sky
a companion star
that be light of my destiny
soul of my chacarera.
 
I would like to be the way
owner of course and distances
where dreams go by
and only longings come back.
 
And I want to gp there like the wind
that nobody ever sees me,
(I want to) sow life around the world
little it matters to whoever it is (I do it for).
 
(I want) To be ardent sun in January
of my peasants coat
and the miracle of the furrows
when my light becomes wheat.
 
I want to be the water
sweet of docile growing
breath, life and freshness
(I want to be) for the living beings.
 
I want to be like the night,
full of stars without owner,
meek refuge of the man,
guardian of all his dreams.
 
I want to walk fromplace to place (from hometown to hometown)
with the truth in my hands
and in my mouth the sweetness
of the Quichua of my peasants.
 
To be a lot and not to have anything
but that luck I prefer:
to be the heart of my hometown.
 

My bombo legüero

My verses in homage
to my bombo legüero,
we haven't left a corner
without frequenting, my companion.
 
We never missed it
he prayed in my trench,
it also accompanied us
the vidalera box.
 
He was born in the hills
of a ceibo se * with any
lined with leather and bizcacha
a chacarera song.
 
Luco, Luco
he has never liked
because he is a good peasant,
the raw leather soba'o
was his favorite group.
 
It was with Andrés Chazarreta*
as the best vidalero
with the Abalos (brothers) afterwards
also with the Chalchaleros.
 
Those tours throughout his places
made him reach the triumph,
now on radios and channels
he goes through all the bands.
 
And always from platform to platform
not even his face he has cleaned up
and so with that aspect
(he has been) everywhere early.
 
I always live in my ranch,
ranch where he has left me,
but I have the great pride
of a triumphant peasant.
 

Sacherita

When you remember, my love,
sad it shall be for you,
my shadows you will miss
and then you shall cry for me.
 
They say that you have cried
for a love that knew used to love you.
I also lost a love that
I loved for real, but I don't know how to cry.
 
When I'm absent from here
A lot you shall feel.
My heart is saying
'My return when will it be?'
Do not cry girl
if I shall come back.
 

On the road to Villa Nueva

Memory of a yesterday
when I met you,
for all your love
you offered (it) to me.
 
There a love was born
because of you beautiful woman,
and time gave us
that joyfulness of a love.
 
How to forget it if it was
an peerless idyll
lived between both (of us)
in that beautiful place!
 
On the way to that jebar
landscape like Eden,
to my hometown
New Villa of my love.
 
Today alone when remembering
I'm fullfullied with emotion
bliss and happiness
they enthral my heart.
 
Charm of living
so united the two of us
and relive your love
as a blessing of God.