La Chaguala (feat. La Muchacha)

And let me be swallowed
Let me be swallowed
Let me be swallowed

And let the earth swallow me
If I can't see her face anymore

If a tongue doesn't come out between my teeth
Big enough to lick her wounds
And let the earth swallow me if I can't see her face
If a tongue doesn't come out between my teeth
Big enough to lick her wounds

Let the earth swallow me with all my notebooks
With the immense sadness that affections produce
With so many frustrations turned into songs and myths
All those blessings given by cursed lips

Let the earth swallow me and its war
The screams of pain from a child burying his mother
Miserable grace for many
They can see so much wealth in just a few puffs
Two or three beatings to make the knees bleed

Scratches, stones, and splinters
Learning from the blows
Aguardiente and canelazo
To soften the harshness
Of walking uncertain streets
To arrive alive at dusk

The blood thickens seeing that the river's flow
Weighs down the cold bodies
Crashing into the undergrowth
Big mother Magdalena cries the pain of her children
So that the suffering heart of the siren may rest

And let the earth swallow me
If I can't see her face anymore

If a tongue doesn't come out between my teeth
Big enough to lick her wounds
And let the earth swallow me if I can't see her face
If a tongue doesn't come out between my teeth
Big enough to lick her wounds

Like the cold in the mountains shaping them
Like the malice of the crook with his damn tricks
Like the pure efforts
That make darkness shine
Like I'm going to succeed, I swear that for sure

Like a large family
In the humblest hut
Sanity and madness brush against the thin line

Enduring humiliations to move forward
The story of my childhood my mother has told me
So many claim
What they cannot do themselves

And others die of thirst just watching the rain fall
In the darkest corner of the psyche I find myself today
Alone in my thoughts, dead in dark thoughts
Almost finding peace in the arms of despair
After mastering those hatreds once they opened my skin

Anger feeds the fury all reason is confused
Insignificant puddles where greatness sinks
A chaguala splits my chest
Passing through throat and belly
But the bad weed doesn't die so easily
Because a pain I will always carry with me

And let the earth swallow me
If I can't see her face anymore

If a tongue doesn't come out between my teeth
Big enough to lick her wounds
And let the earth swallow me if I can't see her face
If a tongue doesn't come out between my teeth
Big enough to lick her wounds