1.200 Kilómetros Lyrics in English Santiago Cruz
Below, I translated the lyrics of the song 1.200 Kilómetros by Santiago Cruz from Spanish to English.
Aracely dejó a su madre
Aracely left her mother
En su casita cerca a Manaure
In her house near Manaure
A mil doscientos largos kilómetros de Bogotá
A thousand two hundred long kilometers from Bogotá
Hasta ese pueblo no llega el agua
The water does not reach that town
Los vivos callan, los muertos hablan
The living are silent, the dead speak
Y desde el parto se aprende bien que es la adversidad
And from childbirth you learn well what adversity is
Todos le dicen que tiene los ojos de su padre
Everyone tells her that she has her father's eyes
Ella se calla porque es que nunca le conoció
She shuts up because she never met him
Dice la gente que lo mataron
She tells the people that they killed him
En una vuelta que le encargaron
In a turn that was commissioned
De esas que todos sabemos y nadie quiere contar
One of those that we all know and nobody wants to tell
Dicen que todos somos iguales
They say we're all the same
Suena bonito pero no es la realidad
It sounds nice but it's not reality
Todos reímos, lloramos, somos mortales
We all laugh, we cry, we are mortal
Pero el que vive con hambre viene de atrás
But the one who lives with hunger comes from behind
(Lei-rei-rei, lei-rei-rei-a)
(Lei-rei-rei, lei-rei-rei-a)
(Lei-rei-rei-a, lei-re-re)
(Lei-rei-rei-a, lei-re-re)
Aracely cuando era niña
Aracely when she was a child
Soñaba con irse a Barranquilla
She dreamed of going to Barranquilla
Y graduarse como abogada en la universidad
And graduate as a lawyer at the university
Pero una vez levantó su mano
But she once she raised her hand
Denunció a un caudillo muy veterano
She denounced a very veteran warlord
Que a la fuerza quiso meterse entre su dignidad
That by force she wanted to get between her dignity
Tuvo que huir de prisa y sin aspavientos
She had to flee quickly and without fuss
En esta tierra se paga caro decir la verdad
In this land you pay dearly to tell the truth
Aracely pasa trabajo
Aracely has work
Lejos de casa y con sueldo bajo
Far from home and low pay
Quedó muy lejos el sueño aquel de entrar a estudiar
She was far away from the dream of going to study
Dicen que todos somos iguales
They say we're all the same
Suena bonito pero no es la realidad
It sounds nice but it's not reality
Todos reímos, lloramos, somos mortales
We all laugh, we cry, we are mortal
Pero el que vive con hambre viene de atrás
But the one who lives with hunger comes from behind
Dicen que todos somos iguales
They say we're all the same
(Dicen que todos somos iguales)
(They say we're all the same)
Suena bonito pero no es la realidad
It sounds nice but it's not reality
(Suena lindo pero no es así)
(Sounds nice but it's not)
Todos reímos, lloramos, somos mortales
We all laugh, we cry, we are mortal
(Todos llegamos al mismo lugar)
(We all arrive at the same place)
Pero el que vive con hambre viene de atrás (viene de atrás)
But the one who lives with hunger comes from behind (he comes from behind)
(Eh-lei-rei, eh-lei-re)
(Eh-lei-rei, eh-lei-rei)
(Eh-lei-re, eh-eh-eh)
(Eh-lei-re, eh-eh-eh)
(Eh-lei-rei, eh-lei-re)
(Eh-lei-rei, eh-lei-rei)
(Eh-lei-re, eh-eh-eh)
(Eh-lei-re, eh-eh-eh)
En la noche antes de acostarse
At night before going to bed
Cierra los ojos y piensa en Manaure
She closes her eyes and thinks of Manaure
Y en recostarse sobre el regazo de su mamá
And lying on her mother's lap
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