Los Cuentos Que Yo Cuento

He didn't offer her the Moon
He just said: Stay with me
There's no fortune
Worth the heart I'll give you

She hesitated for a moment
And then answered yes
But without oaths
That you won't know how to fulfill later

And if you truly love me
There won't be a wedding, why?
With two in a bed
There are enough witnesses, priest, and judge

And we will live far away
From traffic and pollution
Better to grow old
In the shade of a weeping willow

He gave her a ring
Of put on and take off that unite without tying
And he built a castle
Of fine sand by the sea

Their two sons hesitated
Between money and knowledge
They called the first one
Cain and the youngest, Abel

I read it, I dreamed it, I lived it, I invented it
My story starts well for now

Abel was taken out
And the crime was never solved
Hardly anyone was left
Only Cain and his ambition

They set up a business
On dad's little piece of land
What a pair of partners!
Cain Demolitions Inc.

They turned the castle
Into a lousy urbanization
That simple Eden
Is now called New York

The two old folks stay
In a retirement home
The son they have left
Sends them marzipan for Christmas

I told it just as it was. How will I make it so that in the end
The tales that I tell end so badly

Do, re, mi, mi, fa, Sol, fa, Sol, la
The tales that I tell end terribly

It's not me, ob-la-di, ob-la-da
The tales that I tell end so bad

(You've gone too far!) Colorful, colored
The tale that I tell has ended