El Tilin Del Corazon
Andrés Calamaro
The Heart's Tinkle
We just started to run
can’t stop now
this second part is better
we gotta keep going till the end
the last stop is optional.
When on the road
you hit a certain speed
remember that willpower
is what gets you started running,
not what helps you finish.
We were born to be on the road
and the only way is forward
everything's yet to come
better toughen up
and surviving is a good choice.
At some point, we all had
to hold onto our hats
because the storm was brutal
and we also gotta convince
the tinkle of the heart.
Watching the past go by
I’m not just standing still
I’m dragging along
my own drive
a push and another song.
I don’t hear the tinkle
of my cruel Alcatraz heart
I’ve had enough of the surface
and it doesn’t need to be desired
the marble of Plaza San Martín.
What a wealth it is to choose but it has to be
in true freedom, that’s the real duty
it should be kept like sacred fire
that guards the pens that want to write
and the recorders
there are no better times
if there’s no time
what a great evocation.
You can’t say a song is bad,
what a bold move
to accuse a song of evil
it’s a good chance to be quiet
besides, there’s only one song
that makes a tinkle in my heart
in Berlin, we can only listen
because we don’t want to hear
because there’s no time and we just started to run.
We just started
it’s the tinkle of the heart.
You can’t stop a song
if it’s the tinkle of the heart...