Lyrics and translation Joaquín Sabina feat. Fito Paez - Si Volvieran Los Dragones

Si Volvieran Los Dragones

"Si volvieran los Dragones"
Si la angustia no tuviera tantos meses,
Si pudiera huir de esta ciudad,
Si el milagro de los panes y los peces
Consiguiera darnos de cenar.
Si tuvieran corazón las autopistas,
Si alguien me esperara en la estación,
Si bajaran de la luna los artistas,
Si acabara bien esta canción.
Si aprendiéramos a amar como animales,
Si quedara tiempo que perder,
Si bailaran rock and roll los generales,
Si cantara el gallo rojo del amanecer.
Y los sentidos olvidaran la razón.
Y las golondrinas
Supieran volver
A hacer su nido cada otoño en el reloj
De las oficinas,
Si el huracán del porvenir
Arrasara las fronteras
Rotas las banderas por la pasión,
Si reinara en el dos mil
La imaginación.
Si los besos cotizaran más que el oro,
Si quedara hotel en Shangri-Lá,
Si la muerte hiciera mutis por el foro,
Si pudiera yo quererte hasta el final
Y naufragar
En la isla del tesoro,
Si los mercenarios de la soledad
Incendiaran con un blues
Todo el cono sur.
Si en los escombros de la revolución
Creciera el árbol verde del placer,
Y las catedrales se cansaran de ser
Ruinas del fracaso de Dios.
Si volvieran los dragones a poblar las avenidas
De un planeta que se suicida.
Si volvieran los dragones...
Si volvieran los dragones, Robin Hood,
Las amazonas, Marco Polo, Nosferatu, Garcilaso,
Casanova, Buster Keaton, Mata Hari, Don Quijote,
Macedonio, Moby Dick, Los Bucaneros,
Nostradamus, Celedonio, Sargent Pepper,
Goyeneche, Sitting Bull, La violetera,
Janis Joplin, Doctor Jekyll, D'Artagnan,
La primavera, el Cantar de los Cantares, Greta Garbo,
El Tempranillo, Babilonia, Julio Verne, Camaron, los conventillos, gulliver, Sierra Maestra, Bonny and Clyde,
La Magdalena, Camelot, los alquimistas,
Atahualpa, Bonavena, la tetona de Fellini, Bakunin,
Las ilusiones, Espartaco, Mesalina, las cigueñas,
Los bufones, Si volvieran los dragones.

If the Dragons Were to Return

"If the Dragons Were to Return"
If anguish didn't have so many months,
If I could flee this city,
If the miracle of the loaves and fish
Were to give us dinner.
If motorways had hearts,
If someone were waiting for me at the station,
If artists were to come down from the moon,
If this song were to end well.
If we could learn to love like animals,
If there was still time to waste,
If generals danced to rock and roll,
If the red rooster of dawn would crow.
And the senses would forget reason,
And swallows
Would know how to return
To build their nest each autumn in the clock
Of the offices,
If the hurricane of the future
Destroyed the borders
Flags torn down by passion,
If imagination reigned
In the year two thousand.
If kisses were worth more than gold,
If there was a hotel in Shangri-Lá,
If death would exit through the stage door,
If I could love you until the end
And be shipwrecked
On Treasure Island,
If the mercenaries of loneliness
Were to set fire with a blues
To the entire Southern Cone.
If in the rubble of the revolution
The green tree of pleasure were to grow,
And the cathedrals were tired of being
Ruins of God's failure.
If dragons were to return to populate the avenues
Of a planet that is committing suicide.
If dragons were to return...
If dragons were to return, Robin Hood,
The Amazons, Marco Polo, Nosferatu, Garcilaso,
Casanova, Buster Keaton, Mata Hari, Don Quixote,
Macedonio, Moby Dick, The Buccaneers,
Nostradamus, Celedonio, Sargent Pepper,
Goyeneche, Sitting Bull, The Violet Vendor,
Janis Joplin, Doctor Jekyll, D'Artagnan,
Spring, The Song of Songs, Greta Garbo,
El Tempranillo, Babylon, Jules Verne, Camaron, the tenements, Gulliver, Sierra Maestra, Bonny and Clyde,
Mary Magdalene, Camelot, the alchemists,
Atahualpa, Bonavena, Fellini's big-breasted woman, Bakunin,
Illusions, Spartacus, Messalina, the storks,
The jesters, If dragons were to return.