Текст и перевод песни Joan Manuel Serrat - La Consciencia

La Consciencia

Ens l′encolomen des de la infantesa.
És partidista i desproporcionada.
Complement del pecat
I del remordiment,
No ens deixa dormir en pau i ens treu la gana.
Ens emmotlla a un guió convencional
On gairebé mai som protagonistes.
La consciència, senyors,
Ens fa amagar a les golfes
El que hauria d'estar a l′aparador.
N'hi hauria prou amb el respecte, la sinceritat
I una miqueta de benevolència.
Però ens pengen, sense cap necessitat,
La llufa de la consciència.
És del tot anticonstitucional.
Fomenta la mentida i aliena.
No ens deixa bellugar
Amb espontaneïtat.
La quintacolumnista del sistema.
Em porta pel camí del pedregar.
No se'n pot estar, de passar factura
Ni de picar-me els dits
Quan estem canviant cromos
Que a mi em falten i tu tens repetits.
De fora manen lleis i reglaments
I de dins ella completa la "bronca".
Això no pot anar bé.
De seguida es veu que
Algú vol fer entrar el clau per la cabota.
Què hi deu haver darrera tot això?
Qui ens confon les necessitats i els vicis?
Alliberem els sentits
I, com diu la policia,
Investiguem els qui en treuen profit.

Consciousness

They brainwash us from childhood.
It's biased and overblown.
Complement to sin
And to remorse,
It doesn't let us sleep in peace and takes away our appetite.
It fits us into a conventional script
Where we're almost never the stars.
Consciousness, my dear,
Makes us hide in the attic
What should be on display.
Respect, sincerity would suffice,
And a bit of kindness.
But they hang on us, quite unnecessarily,
The yoke of consciousness.
It's completely unconstitutional.
It fosters lies and alienates.
It doesn't let us move
With spontaneity.
The fifth columnist of the system.
It leads me down the stony path.
It can't help but send me the bill
And scold me
When we're trading cards
That I'm missing and you have too many of.
Outside, laws and rules command
And inside it finishes the nagging.
This can't be right.
It's immediately clear that
Someone is trying to drive the nail through the head.
What must be behind all of this?
Who confuses our needs and our vices?
Let's free our senses
And, as the police say,
Let's investigate who's profiting from it.