Tropico de Cáncer Lyrics in English Café Tacvba
Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Tropico de Cáncer by Café Tacvba from Spanish to English.
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Cómo es que te vas Salvador de la compañía
How you leave Salvador from the company
Si todavía hay mucho verdor
If there is still a lot of greenery
Si el progreso es nuestro oficio
If progress is our craft
Y aun queda por ahí mucho indio
And there's still a lot of Indian out there.
Que no sabe lo que es vivir
Who does not know what it is to live
En una ciudad, como la gente
In a city, like people
Que no ves que eres un puente
That you don't see that you are a bridge
Entre el salvajismo y el modernismo
Between savagery and modernism
Salvador el ingeniero, Salvador de la humanidad
Salvador the engineer, Savior of mankind
Está muy bien lo que tú piensas pero
It's all very well what you think but
Por qué no tú te acuerdas que la nuestra
Why don't you remember that ours
Es una civilización muy avanzada
It is a very advanced civilization
Como dice la gente
As people say
Que no ves que nuestra mente
That you don't see that our mind
No debe tomar en cuenta a ecologistas indigenistas
It should not take into account indigenist ecologists
Retrogradistas ni humanistas
Retrogradists or humanists
Ay mis ingenieros civiles y asociados
Oh my civil engineers and associates
No crean que no me duele irme de su lado
Don't think it doesn't hurt to leave your side
Pero es que yo pienso que llegado el tiempo
But I think that when the time comes.
De darle lugar a los espacios sin cemento
To give rise to spaces without cement
Por eso yo ya me voy, no quiero tener nada que ver
That's why I'm leaving, I don't want anything to do with it.
Con esa fea relación de acción
With that ugly relationship of action
Construcción, destrucción
Construction, destruction
Cómo es que te vas Salvador de la compañía
How you leave Salvador from the company
Si todavía hay mucho verdor
If there is still a lot of greenery
Ay mis compañeros Petroleros Mexicanos
Oh my fellow Mexican Oilmen
No crean que no extraño
Don't think I don't miss
El olor a óleo puro
The smell of pure oil
Pero es que yo pienso
But I think
Que nosotros los humanos
That we humans
No necesitamos mas hidrocarburos
We don't need more hydrocarbons
Por eso yo ya me voy, no quiero tener nada que ver
That's why I'm leaving, I don't want anything to do with it.
Con esa fea relación de acción
With that ugly relationship of action
Construcción, destrucción
Construction, destruction
Por eso yo ya me voy, no quiero tener nada que ver
That's why I'm leaving, I don't want anything to do with it.
Con esa fea relación de acción
With that ugly relationship of action
Construcción, destrucción
Construction, destruction
Por eso yo ya me voy, no quiero tener nada que ver
That's why I'm leaving, I don't want anything to do with it.
Con esa fea relación de acción
With that ugly relationship of action
Construcción, destrucción
Construction, destruction
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