Un Minuto
León Gieco
One Minute
I was excited like a king on the roads
I who had never left my neighborhood until now.
I was exercising a messy throat,
It was a joke, it was life or a twist of fate.
I was starting to ask myself strange things
What do people seek when one sings alone?
Is it the need to not feel like nobody?
I am one more of them and one less at home.
Life drew a smile on my face
And in a sad minute, it erased it as if nothing happened.
Woe is me, woe is you,
Woe to all...
I was playing to extend my only dream
My blood was awakening in the twilight of the day.
I was debating between glory and stumbling,
If I was a good lover, stormy, streetwise.
I was bidding farewell to old sorrows in life,
I was discovering the value of sweetness,
If I was passionate, or a fool of mishaps,
If I had foundations or was pure foam.
Life drew a smile on my face,
And in a sad minute, it erased it as if nothing happened.
Woe is me, woe is you,
Woe to all...
In a country of wounds, where they never close,
We all sleep together on new sorrows.
The moon goes into eclipse and the sun stays alone,
And the old labyrinth struggles to open the door.
Life drew a smile on my face
And in a sad minute, it erased it as if nothing happened.
Woe is me, woe is you,
Woe to all...