Cuna de colores [English translation]

They gifted me a baby

and I make him eat paper,

so when he's starving

like his mother,

revolving garbage

he eat those wrappings.

I wallow him in the shit,

and I spread tar on him (like Pijuan)1,

so when there's no job

he doesn't fear to sink low

and even being notary

he becomes able to wash asses.

Color cradle, color cradle,

color cradle has this baby.

I calm his pains, I calm his pains,

I calm his pains with insecticide.

He has a color cradle,

and I paint myself in blue (and brown),

so when he's blind,

and very afraid,

remembers in his abyss

all this chromatism.

And I ease his pains

with the FLIT pump,

so when he gets ill,

and he can't buy medicines,

he kill himself with dignity

and the pump in his teeth.

Color cradle, color cradle,

color cradle has this baby.

I calm his pains, I calm his pains,

I calm his pains with insecticide.

1. It's a reference to "Andamio Pijuan", another song of the Cuarteto de Nos

• Artist:El Cuarteto de Nos
• Album:Emilio Garcia (1988)