Tercer Mundo Lyrics in English Fito Páez
Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Tercer Mundo by Fito Páez from Spanish to English.
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Hace muchos años un hombre soñó
Many years ago a man dreamed
Un imperio, un imperio muy grande
An empire, a very big empire
Tenía buena cara y no paraba de hablar
He had a good face and did not stop talking
Con el hombre más odiado y querido del lugar
With the most hated and loved man in the place
Y soñaban tener un jardín florido
And they dreamed of having a flowery garden
Una patria de México al pie
A homeland of Mexico at the foot
Con hermanos de toda calaña
With brothers of all kinds
Y en el sueño gritaban
And in the dream they screamed
Me hundo, me hundo, me hundo
I sink, I sink, I sink
Y nadie sabe como vine a parar yo
And nobody knows how I came to stop
La mona Jiménez con Mickey Rourke
Mona Jimenez with Mickey Rourke
Mirando las chicas del puticlub
Watching the brothel girls
La banda de rock que más chicas quiso
The rock band that most girls wanted
Entrando muchachos al caracas Hilton
Boys entering the Caracas Hilton
Coca-coca-coca-coca sarli
Coke-coke-coke-coke sarli
Coca-coca-coca-coca cola
Coke-coke-coke-coke
Coca-coca-coca-coca
Coke-coke-coke-coke
Inapetente estará Pinochet
Pinochet will be unappetizing
El día que lo echen a palos
The day they kick him out
Seguí caminando y llegue a una disco
I kept walking and came to a disco
Khadafi bailando con un ministro
Gaddafi dancing with a minister
Pidieron petróleo y no les dieron
They asked for oil and were not given
Les dieron Fernet que es un buen veneno
They gave them Fernet, which is a good poison.
Fabi Cantilo echó a Henry Miller
Fabi Cantilo fired Henry Miller
Porque era muy tarde y por lo que escribe
Because it was too late and because of what he writes
A Henry nada de esto le importó
Henry didn't care about any of this.
Y terminó en la cama con la salomón
And he ended up in bed with solomon
Ahí van los pimpinela por la quinta avenida
There go the pimpernels down fifth avenue
El madison al palo, arde la argentina
The madison to the stick, the argentina burns
Calígula despierta de su hibernación
Caligula awakens from his hibernation
Sube al escenario y los tira a los dos
Gets on stage and throws them both
El gordo porcel canta rock
The fat porcelain sings rock
Y fuma la yerba de Billy bond
And smoke Billy Bond's weed
Y siguen planeando algo en Bolivia
And they keep planning something in Bolivia
Casar a almodóvar con una niña
Marry almodóvar with a girl
Y todo el mundo quiere llegar primero
And everybody wants to get there first
Se besan pedrito con la merello
They kiss Pedro with the Merello
Que sueño mas raro es el de esta giunta (yunta)
What a strange dream is that of this giunta (yoke)
Las puertas aquí no terminan nunca
The doors here never end
Batato jugando con Maradona
Batato playing with Maradona
Solitos, solitos en la de boca
Alone, alone in the mouth
Y sigo caminando y entro en un bar
And I keep walking and I enter a bar
Y ya era día y no era verdad
And it was day and it was not true
Andrés Calamaro y Lou Reed
Andrés Calamaro and Lou Reed
Pensando, pensando en salir de aquí
Thinking, thinking about getting out of here
Afuera los pibes en la ciudad
Outside the kids in the city
Creo que no sueñan, no sueñan mas
I think they don't dream, they don't dream anymore
Ya no quiero dólares bunge y born
I no longer want bunge y born dollars
Nena, hoy vuelvo a casa a soñar con vos
Baby, today I come home to dream of you
Y en casa yo grito, me hundo, me hundo
And at home I scream, I sink, I sink
Y nadie sabe como vine a parar yo
And nobody knows how I came to stop
Al tercer mundo
to the third world
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