Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Menudo Contraste by Antonio Orozco from Spanish to English.
These English lyric translations are not yet verified.
Llora mi alma mientras lo veo
Cry my soul as I watch it
Paseando por el centro de cualquier ciudad,
Strolling through the center of any city,
Donde aquel falso sueño
Where that false dream
Se convierte en la turbia pesadilla
It becomes the murky nightmare
A la que un día partieron buscando
To which one day they left looking for
Lo nunca tuvieron,
They never had it,
Lo que siempre contaron aquellos que volvieron
What those who returned always told
Cargados de historias why extraños consejos
Loaded with stories why strange advice
Que nunca entendieron.
That they never understood.
Su techo en el cielo, su cama en el suelo
His ceiling in the sky, his bed on the floor
Why su angustia en la bolsa
Why his anguish in the stock market
Donde sumergen sus pulmones
Where they submerge their lungs
Why su orgullo dañado why repleto de miedo.
Why his pride damaged why full of fear.
Me quema...
It burns me...
Sécate las lágrimas
Dry your tears
Me dice un niño, cuando me ve llorar
A child tells me, when he sees me crying
Guárdate esas lágrimas
Save those tears
Que mi consuelo aún está por llegar.
That my comfort is yet to come.
Sécate las lágrimas, las que no tengo,
Dry your tears, the ones I don't have,
Las que hacen olvidar.
The ones that make you forget.
Sécate las lágrimas, sécate las lágrimas.
Dry your tears, dry your tears.
Largo camino why estrecho el estrecho
Long way why narrow the strait
Donde se olvidan ilusiones que robaron
Where illusions that stole are forgotten
De gastadas revistas en sus noches de sueños
Of worn-out magazines on their dream nights
Que pasearon por la furia de los mares
That they walked through the fury of the seas
Why al llegar la perdieron.
Why when they arrived they lost it.
Libertad de sus actos
Freedom from their acts
Capital del consuelo
Capital of consolation
Florecer del dinero,
Flourish from money,
Que recogen con la mente abandonada
That they collect with the abandoned mind
Why su estela apagada.
Why its wake turned off.
Aromas lejanos, nostalgias guardadas
Distant aromas, nostalgia stored
Caricias bañadas,
bathed caresses,
En la distancia que separa a su familia
In the distance that separates your family
La que tanto ayudaba.
The one that helped so much.
Me quema...
It burns me...
Sécate las lágrimas
Dry your tears
Me dice un niño, cuando me ve llorar
A child tells me, when he sees me crying
Guárdate esas lágrimas
Save those tears
Que mi consuelo aún está por llegar.
That my comfort is yet to come.
Sécate las lágrimas, las que no tengo,
Dry your tears, the ones I don't have,
Las que hacen olvidar.
The ones that make you forget.
Sécate las lágrimas, sécate las lágrimas.
Dry your tears, dry your tears.
Menudo contraste.
What a contrast
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