Paroles et traduction Edmundo Rivero - Packard

Packard

Era una mina bien, era un gran coche
Era un packard placero, era una alhaja
Auto que siempre laboró de noche
Llevando siempre la bandera baja.

Pero un día la droga la hizo suya
Y en vez de cargar nafta, hechó morfina
Y cerrando el escape por la bulla
Se fajaba de bute en cada esquina

Ayer la vi pasar, iba dopada
Y me sentí, yo curda, un santo asís
Al ver que de su pinta abacanada
Pinta que fuera de auto de parada
Solo queda cual resto de chocada
Con los cuatro fierritos del chasís.

Packard

It was once a fine car, it was a great car
It was a Packard, a beauty, a real gem
A car that always worked at night
Always carrying its headlights down.

But one day she got hooked on drugs
And instead of loading gas, it loaded morphine
And to hide the noise of the exhaust
It used to shoot up at every corner

Yesterday I saw her pass by, high on drugs
And I felt like a holy saint, even though I was drunk
When I saw that her once-beautiful body
A body that once turned heads
Was now just a wreck
With only four steel bars left from the chassis.