De una vez [English translation]

While the city

Is still lit up at four

And there's a place to distract you somewhere

A modest place

A little place

Don't say no

You are denying yourself paradise

I know the place where the light is a streetlamp for years

And sleep is fun

The only fun thing

I know that right now

While they start singing whatever song

While we go to dissipate the heat

They are fighting there

What will pay for

The blood the earth absorbs?

Which gold which is not gold of dreams weighs this much?

What can be worth more?

What will pay this sweat of time passing?

What time is paying his life time?

Which life is bleeding out of the wound

Of going about this earth for once?

Of going about this earth for once?

Of going about this earth for once

When at eleven the sun goes away to the centre of the horror

When orders and goals beg for their wall of rock

When from dark to dark they talk to the action

The word is yours, I stay silent in shame

The word is yours, I stay silent in shame

The word is yours, I stay silent in shame

What will pay this sweat of time passing?

What time is paying his life time?

Which life is bleeding out of the wound

Of going about this earth for once?

Of going about this earth for once?

Of going about this earth for once

• Artist:Silvio Rodríguez