Casas de Cartón Lyrics in English Marco Antonio Solís
Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Casas de Cartón by Marco Antonio Solís from Spanish to English.
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Qué triste se oye la lluvia
How sad the rain sounds
En los techos de cartón
On cardboard roofs
Qué triste vive mi gente
How sad my people live
En las casas de cartón
In cardboard houses
Viene bajando el obrero
The worker comes down
Casi arrastrando sus pasos
Almost dragging his steps
Por el peso del sufrir
By the weight of suffering
Mira que es mucho el sufrir
See how much to suffer
Mira que pesa el sufrir
Look at what weighs suffering
Arriba deja la mujer preñada
Up leaves the pregnant woman
Abajo está la ciudad
Below is the city
Y se pierde en su maraña
And he gets lost in his tangle
Hoy es lo mismo que ayer
Today is the same as yesterday
Es un mundo sin mañana
It's a world without tomorrow
Qué triste se oye la lluvia
How sad the rain sounds
En los techos de cartón
On cardboard roofs
Qué triste vive mi gente
How sad my people live
En las casas de cartón
In cardboard houses
Niños color de mi tierra
Children color of my land
Con sus mismas cicatrices
With the same scars
Millonarios de lombrices
Worm millionaires
Y por eso
And that's why
Qué tristes viven los niños
How sad children live
En las casas de cartón
In cardboard houses
Eh
Hey
Qué triste se oye la lluvia
How sad the rain sounds
En los techos de cartón
On cardboard roofs
Qué triste vive mi gente
How sad my people live
En las casas de cartón
In cardboard houses
Usted no lo va a creer
You won't believe it
Pero hay escuelas de perros
But there are dog schools
Y les dan educación
And they give them education
Pa' que no muerdan los diarios
So that they do not bite the newspapers
Pero el patrón hace años, muchos años
But the pattern years ago, many years ago
Que está mordiendo al obrero
That is biting the worker
Qué triste se oye la lluvia
How sad the rain sounds
En los techos de cartón
On cardboard roofs
Qué lejos pasa una esperanza
How far a hope goes
En las casas de cartón
In cardboard houses
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