EL KARMA Lyrics in English by 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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parca — grim reaper / death

Parca refers to the Grim Reaper or personified Death, often depicted as a cloaked figure. It's a more poetic and less common word for 'death' than muerte.

In the song, the lyric "Nadie de la parca se puede escapar" (No one can escape the grim reaper) delivers a powerful and somber message about the inevitability of fate, especially in the context of the violent life described in the lyrics. This word adds a dramatic and memorable touch, making it stand out.

"El Karma" tells a gritty, tragic story from beyond the grave. Mexican artist Ariel Camacho sings as a narrator who starts out in Agua Caliente, moves to Culiacán, and gets into the underworld—or el ambiente ("the scene")—to make money trafficking in Los Angeles. Trouble starts when rivals try an express kidnapping on his daughters. The narrator is fiercely protective and furious, noting that nobody gets to put a price on his family. He tracks down the kidnappers to settle the score, kicking down the door with his Browning pistol ready to go.

Things go south fast. The narrator walks straight into a trap—el cuatro en la mesa (literally "the four on the table," meaning an ambush). He fires his gun, but an R-15 rifle cuts him down. What makes the track hit so hard is the fatalistic twist at the end. Even though the narrator dies, he points out that karma always circles back: the person holding that R-15 is now dead too, because "nadie de la parca se puede escapar" ("nobody can escape the Grim Reaper").

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