Cuando sea grande [English translation]

I don't want to complain from ear to ear

To pay attention if whoever is ahead of me gets farther away

To deny the reflection that I leave in my mirror

Nor to allow the grudge to be nested between my eyebrows.

I don't want to keep many secrets

Nor to be faced with a grotesque situation

Like the Montague and the Capulet did

I don't want to become obsolete when I reach your age

Neither to lose the drive nor to say without rigour

that everything was always better back in the old days.

Nor to arrive to my home obfuscated and grumpy

I don't want to be tired of wearing myself.

And although this truth might cause pain

I must say it, without trying to please.

However if I offend with it, I apologise:

When I grow up, I don't want to be like you.

I don't want to make your same mistakes.

Nor to believe everybody ready to scam you.

I don't want to adopt your same set of values.

Nor that each day is the same as the ones before it.

I don't want to not be able to control my rage.

Nor to bear around that sadness in the eyes

wet and red, decayed and unfocused

I don't want to resign to become my spoils.

Nor to vehemently blame everybody else

for what is my business and responsibility.

Nor that I feel like proving myself through an idiocy

what I couldn't do when I was twenty three.

And although this truth might cause pain

I must say it, without trying to please.

However if I offend with it, I apologise:

When I grow up, I don't want to be like you.

I don't want feel that nothing gives me pleasure anymore

Nor that when pain embraces me I abhor the past.

Nor to look to old photos and burst into tears.

Or that someone's name said out loud makes me start to shiver.

I don't want to keep carrying this battered life anymore

with suspicions of swindle and broken dreams.

Nor to throw fits of wrath, as if I was Apollo

Nor to feel bothered of being alone a certain day of the year.

And although all this is prone to be misunderstood

I don't want you to think I'm just saying it as a criticism.

And I hope that this is just a notification

because I don't even know if I want you to want to be like me.

And although this truth might cause pain

I must say it, without trying to please.

However if I offend with it, I apologise:

When I grow up, I don't want to be like you.

And although this truth (I don't want to be like you) might cause pain

I must say it (I don't want to be like you) without trying to please.

However if I offend with it (I don't want to be like you) I apologise.

When I grow up...

• Artist:El Cuarteto de Nos
• Album:Porfiado (2012)