Arriba l'alba a Sant Petersburg [English translation]

Now Babú

is feeling less dizzy, she won’t stay much longer

Now she lowers her watchful eyes, thinking

"What a strange environment; I think I’ll be okay here.”

And she believed with certainty that she would stay.

Certainly, that's what she believed

It was a clear day, families were strolling,

having found a shark, dead on the beach.

Now Babú

has gone out to the square, thanking the power of the wind

which scatters her wasted years,

the alcohol in her blood, and the stares of the newsagents.

And in her pocket, she finds her amulet.

Babú grips the amulet tightly!

The lights are already on when she arrives at Sadovaya.

Sat on the platform, she's thinking about where to go.

And how she needs an idea!

Like never before, she has to admit.

Babú needs an idea!

A beautiful and solid idea.

The train car opens, and well-dressed office workers sprint up the stairs.

They button up their coats, buy newspapers and chewing gum and walk away from the square.

Mothers dead from lack of sleep sliding about the asphalt, dancers on the way home,

old women who believe in evil spirits, and girls laughing about their growing breasts.

In the middle of the canal, an old official debuts on a boat

and he really doesn't feel up to it, but he’ll have to stop some Lithuanians who are running too much.

There's someone who’s rising to an impossible challenge, there's someone who’s emitting an inaudible howl.

There are yawning taxi drivers!

There's a man who’s waiting for his dog to piss, there's a snowflake on the tomb of a famous doctor.

Electric cables, broken balconies, right angles, white paint,

stork nests on the roof, and blankets with embroidered letters.

And now, in the distance, shipyard cranes are raising steel plates!

Behind, in the Baltic Sea, shining like lanterns, are jellyfish entering international waters.

• Artist:Manel
• Album:Jo Competeixo