Mil vidas

A whole life is not enough for a man
The earth gave me a when and a where
Trapped now in this sleepless era
I want to live more lives than the one that belongs to me
Travel to the landscapes that every memory hides

See myself at the beginning of time without self-awareness
Homo sapiens whose science is survival
With raw skin, my patience tames the fire
Mother Earth gives the essence that feeds later

Inhabit the Nile before Jesus Christ
Be a scribe of ancient Egypt to see that I exist
And still resist next to Cheops, my pharaoh
Knowing that he owns the dreams I have and my reason

Civilization in grace like Greece
Feel alive the passion of Plato's worldview
From the Parthenon, his heritage
Between Corinthian columns, his lessons cleanse my conscience and are

Light for the heart, they are light for history
They are light like magnolias in Mongolia
Feeling like a samurai, thirsty for glory
Defending my empire, conquering as the only means to make history

A Thousand Lives, I would like to live them all
One is not enough and I clash among the waves
Of time, hours drifting
Because only one era, because only one perspective

The waves of time reach the Renaissance
There Leonardo anticipates a new invention
I sit next to Copernicus in a spherical and metallic world
While the Inquisition follows my steps without breath

Vienna 1700, city full of culture
I feel the beauty of a distant place
Enjoying touching Mozart, seeing him play
And caressing eternity between his piano notes

Symphony in harmony
Wanting to live the lives that were not mine is not absurd
Like entering a czar's palace in St. Petersburg
And shouting, Revolution!, to change the world

And as it changes, I observe it
Peoples invade, peoples centuries and defeats, broken civilizations
Seeing myself next to Sitting Bull, being a shaman
Meditating enlightened among the meadows of Dakota

And magic sprouts in my hands, cure for the white man
And the madness that spreads and thus the future is foretold
While the Sun from its throne watches undefeated
The human being is just a blink of all it has seen

Seeing the waves of time clash
Millennia merging into a single moment, I want to live a thousand lives

A Thousand Lives, I would like to live them all
One is not enough and I clash among the waves
Of time, hours drifting
Because only one era, because only one perspective

Chicago 1920s seen trench coat patent leather shoes
Feeling out of control looking at every corner
Prohibition is imposed, I go to a cabaret
To forget that Al Capone's mafia intends to liquidate me

Travel to Woodstock and from dawn to lie down
Dedicated to free love and pleasure
Seeing in concert Jimmy Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Tim Hardin
High on LSD, this is my garden, my camp

My endless freedom and there I see myself, I dive
Among the meadows of history and its fortune
I want to escape with this pen from a present that overwhelms me
To be in Neil Armstrong's pupil when stepping on the Moon

To be a Black Panther, with my fist raised, afro hair
Sit with Rosa Parks in the back of that car
Learn from Crazy Legs and T-Kid in their early tags
End of the 70s South Bronx, no more mysteries

Just the desire to live more lives than one
Madrid 1983 movement, me at the door of Roccola
Smoking a cigarette, absorbed
Thinking that the path separating cradle and cemetery is short

A Thousand Lives, there where I wanted to be, and all I wanted to see