Elena [English translation]

Elena decided

to sell her body on a cold night

(ay, sí, sí, oh..)

she didn´t think it through

and just like that she was made a woman, who would have said?

She made love

Time is lost every day

later she got tired

Elena decided to sell her life, oh

Elena ran away

through caracas to New York

in a van that came out of a boat, uh

Elena made it

now she lives in the Bronx

with a jew in a factory, oh!

Elena, Elena

Write if it is going well for you, Elena...

She looked for it

in the middle of the street, in offices

She wandered

Manhattan with her clay foot

She forgot her mind

She left her eyes on any cabinet

there in the 102

Elena found what she was looking for

She never imagined

That here in New York

they would pay you to deliver an envelope, uh

she also didn't imagine

why there ws so much fear

she never heard about cocaine, oh!

Elena, Elena

Write if it is going well for you, Elena (uh, uh, Elena...)

Uh, Elena!

And like that Elena started

A game she would never get out of

She didn't think it through

For she was going to buy her new TV, uh

She put on a cloth

and left her modesty on a chair

but she never imagined

that she wouldn't come back home

And on a warm day

In New York

Elena was murdered on a subway, oh

the sky got cloudy

and no one picked up

the envelope she was carrying on her chest, oh!

Elena, Elena

Write if it is going well for you, Elena (uh, uh, Elena...)

Elena!

Oh, oh...

• Artist:Juan Luis Guerra
• Album:"Mudanza Y Acarreo" (1985)