Lo que el tiempo me enseñó [English translation]

Time taught me that with the years,

one learn less than what he ignores.

Time which is an old treacherous man,

teaches you when your time has come.

Time taught me as it could,

in the suburban university.

With the truth illuminated in a corner,

like a little headlight in the streetside.

La la la...

Time taught me that friends,

are counted with the fingers of one hand.

That must be the reason why I don't count them,

to believe that I have a thousand brothers.

Time taught me that traitors,

sit in the table next to you

and the man who stabs you in the back

shares the bread with those very hands.

La la la...

Because I have nothing in excess,

that's why I say I'm rich.

Because I'd rather be an indigent

than being someday a poor guy1

Time taught me that flags,

are sticks with waving banners,

and the map is a paper that is shared out

by the kings while the men fight.

Time taught me that misery,

is miserable people's fault.

That justice is late and never comes

but is the nightmare of the guilty.

Time taught me that memory,

is not less powerful than oblivion,

is just that the power of victory

takes charge of forgetting the defeated.

La la la...

Time taught me that relatives,

will write the history with their blood,

but the history written in the books,

is written with the coward's pen.

Time taught me to mistrust,

of what the very time has taught me

that's why sometimes I have the hope

that time could be wrong...

La la la...

Hey, Tabaré, it's me El Canario

I have half hour left.

Look that I have many years already.

I want to live happy,

not to see people sleeping in the street.

That's why boy, I want to live this half hour like a rich,

because I'm rich,

because the garbage trucks salute me,

because people gives me the hand.

1. Tipo pobre and pobre tipo mean the same (Poor guy). But "pobre tipo" is used for meaning a disgraceful person

• Artist:Tabaré Cardozo
• Album:Pobres Poderosos (2005)