Retirada, Niño Del Fin Del Mundo

You were born in a corner of the end of the world,
In the midst of a feast of snakes and jackals.
You grew up in this time, in this immense pile of solitudes
Child, child of children just grown up, that the world ages with blows.
Child lantern in the storm, clandestine door in the wall.
Child from the end of the world, I bring you the hugs you need,
My last and poor barricades, a whole world to change and the heart in this retreat.

Child
Who came to this world
Huge eyes
And clear soul
Child
In no man's land
Mud angel
Open your wings
Please

A child was born
In the city
Under a gray sky
In a storm
A neighborhood, a country
A drop in the sea
A latitude
A matter of chance
A little south
A little back
A map upside down
A placeless Eden

A little boat in the middle
Of the fury of the high seas winds
At the mercy of destiny
Saffron marionette
In a ruthless and criminal circus
Of a mean clown

In the trenches
Where battles are lost
With the cheater
Who pays for his medals
An angel alone
Facing the cannibal of his brothers
With a dirty coin
In the white palm of his hands

Child
From the end of the world
Light at the end of my deepest cry
I, who was a child until yesterday
And the world has killed me at times
I can give you my cross
And a poor dream

Lost dream on a map of yesterday
Old notebooks bleeding poetry
The tenacious prophecy of a better world

The song to erase
The scars from your wings
Passwords to enter
The secret of the happy ones

Every time the sun rises
Calmly and furiously

You will sow with your life
The seeds of a lost world
On a newly born future

You will be able to build in the mud
New maps, and new paths
On the beach of the times to come
Find a secret of light

The sun shines on a new dawn
Over a sky about to be born
The sun shines and starts again
Another miracle of this endless cycle
As a farewell, a kiss and a flower
In this mysterious world of cardboard

The ephemeral world stage
Of our poor wonder

The carnival has already performed
A lost neighborhood of rags and coal
Unfurls colorful banners
In this cardboard sky
The truck leaves, the curtain falls
Hold on, Catalina says goodbye
To the neighborhood, the heart

Goodbye goodbye carnival
Lost and fleeting world
Always keep a place for me
To return
Goodbye goodbye carnival
For your happy brevity
Catalina leaves
To come back

Goodbye goodbye carnival...