Lecciones de Urbanidad [English translation]

Harvest good manners

for your bad examples

if you don't want your pairs

to point at you.

Cover your basic instincts

with a lamb fur.

The cowl does not make the monk

but it brings it off.

Show yourself in public friendly,

gracious, thoughtful,

courteous, polite, educated,

caring and helpful.

And when you mess it, do the favour

of decorating the dropping.

So, admired, the world says

"How pretty shits the sir!"

Pay me attention and take

etiquette lessons.

Have a smile at hand

when you give a blow with the stick.

Share bad news

wrapped as a gift.

Tell the world with flowers

that you'll devastate the planet.

Sign death sentences

but writing clearly.

Place a witness before God

and lie convincefully.

Make train the people

but without raising the voice.

That at first sight is not seen

the lacquer of your guts.

Looks are deceiving

at your benefit.

Pay me attention and take

etiquette lessons.

Harvest good manners

where to hide your sins.

Put a lipstick on your pig

and check the result.

That you'll be anything

-scum of the mortals-

a perfect bastard,

but with good manners.

Insult with class,

rob delicately

murder cleanly

and swindle with distinction.

Defame without disrespecting

betray with elegance

perfume your nastyness

with exquisite etiquette.

• Artist:Joan Manuel Serrat
• Album:Bienaventurados