Vida [English translation]

No one chooses their family or their race when they are born;

nor to be rich, poor, good, bad, brave or cowardly.

We are born from a decision where we were not consulted.

and no one can promise us results.

When we are born we don't even know our name

nor what our path will be, nor what the future hides.

Between baptism and death, every one makes a path.

And with his/her decisions, a destiny.

We are a deck more in a game another has started,

and every one will bet according to the hand he/she has inherited.

Life is a door where you are not charged for your entrance/ticket,

and the soul is the hole that when you live they punch when you pay.

And every step creates/leaves a footprint/mark, and every mark is a story.

And every yesterday is a star in the sky of memory.

And the time's tide takes and brings our contradictions.

And between the return and the farewell, errors heal.

And every friend is the family we choose among strangers,

And between waiting and meeting one learns with the years

That only to our conscience, our spirit answers to

and that it is one thing to be male and another to be a man.

No one chooses their family or their race when they are born;

nor to be good, bad, pretty, ugly, innocent or guilty.

From birth to death, every life is a hill

on our will depends the answer.

(I dream of a different world) ¡ah no!

(Where our love never ends)

Where we never, where we never, never reject the rest's reason,

Where we never forget to give a hand, to whom?

to those who have fallen behind.

(I dream of a different world)

(Where our love never ends)

Celebrate our country/land better than when we enter it.

Like grandmother to affection/darling, with the hope of the child, bro,

clear like summer.

(I dream of a different world)

(Where our love never ends)

The white bones of those dead can be of any race.

If death does not discriminate, then, that life not do it either.

-Instrumental-

Long live gypsies!

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(I fought for a different world)

(Where our love never dies)

Where what you say, think, do, feel, give you happiness

Without your joy being based on the rest's harm/wrong

(I fought for a different world)

(Where our love never dies)

This truth is very simple, even a kid knows it

If in your life there was never rhythm, in your death there will be no key.

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(Pure life...)

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(pure life...)

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• Artist:Rubén Blades
• Album:Tiempos