Bolivia [English translation]
Bolivia [English translation]
Europe, 1939
Everyone in the chancelleries was saying no
(Years of hot war
Some years before the cold war)
Everyone was saying no
When Bolivia said yes
Berlin was a rats' nest
The guardian of bravado, it was shouting
It filled stadiums
Of an arid wasteland of Aryan delirium
An arid wasteland of Aryan delirium
The doors were closing
Time hung by a thread
And that boy in my grandparents' arms
And the panic was evident
And everything was portending it:
Fear was gaining direction
It was opening jaws, it was yelling
And then the cold arrived
In the middle of a biting glacier
An incredible stream of warm water:
Everyone was saying no
When Bolivia said yes
And the pendulum comes and goes
And again comes and leaves
And after moving away, returns
And after returning, moves away
And the traveling changes
And the ships go and come
And those who have everything today
Will beg for everything tomorrow
And the Ferris wheel does not delay
In inverting destinies
In refreshing memory
And paths of departure
Transform themselves
Into paths of return
Because of this:
A revolving door
No more than that, it's history.
- Artist:Jorge Drexler
- Album:Bailar en la cueva