Gaita Entre Ruinas

Today everything in ruins
So simple
Now the basilica stands alone
In the empty lot, sir
Silent witness
That generation
With great pain
Making way for the future
Because there among old walls
The bagpipe was born

Now the basilica stands alone
In the empty lot, sir
Silent witness
That generation
With great pain
Making way for the future
Because there among old walls
The bagpipe was born

How they are transforming you
My dear old neighborhood
You are nothing but the reflection
Of what I keep remembering
And if I go out walking
To see what memories I grab
I only find debris
Of what they are tearing down

Today everything in ruins
So simple
Now the basilica stands alone
In the empty lot, sir
Silent witness
That generation
With great pain
Making way for the future
Because there among old walls
The bagpipe was born

Now the basilica stands alone
In the empty lot, sir
Silent witness
That generation
With great pain
Making way for the future
Because there among old walls
The bagpipe was born

In the dying afternoon
Through the old ruins
An old man walking away
Solitary and hesitant
Made me think for a moment
Of those bygone years
Of enlightened poets
And the elegant bagpipe

Today everything in ruins
So simple
Now the basilica stands alone
In the empty lot, sir
Silent witness
That generation
With great pain
Making way for the future
Because there among old walls
The bagpipe was born

Now the basilica stands alone
In the empty lot, sir
Silent witness
That generation
With great pain
Making way for the future
Because there among old walls
The bagpipe was born

That lonely tree
Witnessed so many mornings
The tolling of the bells
From your sacred sanctuary
Today the temple is a quarry
And I still remember the carriages
Carrying the beautiful Chinese woman
Of legendary Zulians

Today everything in ruins
So simple
Now the basilica stands alone
In the empty lot, sir
Silent witness
That generation
With great pain
Making way for the future
Because there among old walls
The bagpipe was born

Now the basilica stands alone
In the empty lot, sir
Silent witness
That generation
With great pain
Making way for the future
Because there among old walls
The bagpipe was born