Paroles et traduction Fito Paez feat. Joaquín Sabina & Nigel Walker - 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-la
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, Camarón
Los conventillos, Gulliver, Sierra Maestra, Bonny and Clyde
La Magdalena, Camelot, los alquimistas
Atahualpa, Bonavena, la tetona de Fellini, Bakunín
Las ilusiones, Espartaco, Mesalina, las cigüeñas, los bufones
Si volvieran los dragones

Were Dragons to Return

If anguish knew not months so long
If I could flee this city's throng
If the loaves and fishes' miracle
Could somehow grant us sustenance to quell
If freeways held a human touch
If someone waited at the train station, such
If artists should descend from the moon's embrace
If this song would end in a saving grace
If we could love as beasts both wild and free
If time remained for us to waste in glee
If generals would dance to rock and roll's beat
If the red rooster of dawn's chorus were sweet
And senses left behind this reasoned guise
And swallows still
Could fly
To build their nests each autumn in time's clock
Within the offices
If the hurricane of the future's might
Could tear down borders, end their sorry plight
With flags in tatters, passion's potent sway
If imagination's reign would come to stay
In the year two thousand
If kisses held a worth surpassing gold
If Shangri-la's hotel still had a hold
If death would take its final bow
If I could love you till the very end, I know
And sail away
To Treasure Island's bay
If loneliness's mercenaries should arise
To set the Southern Cone ablaze with their cries
With a blues
And in the rubble of revolution's might
May pleasure's verdant tree take flight
And cathedrals tire of being, in their guise
Remnants of God's failure in the skies
If dragons were to return, to fill the avenues
Of a planet bent on its own demise
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, La Violetera
Janis Joplin, Doctor Jekyll, D'Artagnan
Springtime, the Song of Songs, Greta Garbo
El Tempranillo, Babylon, Jules Verne, Camarón
The tenements, Gulliver, Sierra Maestra, Bonnie and Clyde
The Magdalene, Camelot, the alchemists
Atahualpa, Bonavena, Fellini's buxom star, Bakunin
Illusions, Spartacus, Messalina, storks, and jesters
If dragons were to return