Muñequitos de Papel

Paper dolls, marzipan and string
Who put the bell on them came to see, dance well
Frontmen of the power, unwittingly
Guardians of desire without the power
Paper dolls without laurel, without laurel

At the Babel party, nothing is true, no one is true
Who’s taking this cake and the tablecloth, and the tablecloth?
What’s left of the country? This gray
The color of just getting by isn’t living
Paper dolls and tinsel, and tinsel

On a train off the tracks, a ship without a helm,
The promises of yesterday, milk and honey, milk and honey
If history is to soften its betrayal
How many lives of sorrow weigh today?
Paper dolls, deaf skin, deaf skin

Paper dolls, marzipan and string
When it starts to rain, who’s gonna shelter them?
Frontmen of the power, unwittingly
Guardians of desire without the power
Paper dolls without laurel, without laurel