EL KARMA Lyrics in English ARIEL CAMACHO

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Below, I translated the lyrics of the song EL KARMA by ARIEL CAMACHO from Spanish to English.

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Verse 1

I was born in hot springs

Aguascalientes = city name = hot springs = hot water

Then I came to Culiacán

There I got into the scene

Looking for cash to progress

I started to see money

I trafficked to Los Angeles

But there's never a dog lacking

That looking at the bone doesn't want to bite

When people see you doing well and moving up in life, they feel greed and jealousy

They wanted an express kidnapping

This usually involves stealing a person's money or bank account

With my daughters as hostages

Usually victims are two women traveling alone, which could mean his daughters as hostages

To my family the price

A dumb*ss won't come to want to set it

Nobody will come threaten his family, knowing who he is

I wished I was there too

To be able to eat them up

I see that they had respect for me

They knew that with fights they wouldn't be able

Verse 2

I didn't take long to find them

And that debt I went to collect

I said right away to the neck

For being brave that dog I'm going to tie up

I arrived knocking down the door

Something isn't right

Or: Something isn't right

They already had the answer for me

The four on the table I ran into

I made my browning work

Browning is a gun

But it didn't last for more

An R-15 answered me

Those projectiles were my end

Karma comes and goes

It's also heard around

That R-15 rests

Nobody can escape from the reaper

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SONG MEANING

EL KARMA spins a gritty tale straight from the heart of Mexico’s narcocorrido tradition. The narrator begins in Aguascalientes, then heads north to Culiacán, where quick money in drug trafficking promises a road to “progreso.” Success comes fast, but danger comes faster: rivals attempt a brutal, lightning-quick kidnapping of his daughters. Filled with rage, he hunts the culprits, barges through doors, and opens fire in a showdown worthy of an action film. Yet destiny has the last word; an R-15 rifle answers his pistol, and the once-fearless trafficker falls.

The chorus idea, “El karma viene y se va,” reminds listeners that every violent act circles back. No one, not even the most powerful, can dodge the Grim Reaper. Through raw lyrics, Ariel Camacho delivers a cautionary story about ambition, family, revenge, and the inevitable payback that follows a life on the wrong side of the law—wrapped in the haunting, signature sound of Regional Mexican music.

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