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Translation
Five Minutes
The night was like a tender Hell,
with drunk demons singing
to the Tepoztlán1 moon.
Under the hat of a tree made of stars
corridos2 flowed away,
about lovers burned under the volcano.
When you arrived, suddenly the light from
a scarlet moonlight fell like a waterfall
from the top of a pyramid.
A crucifix hanged down your chest
and, as if it gave you some kind of consolation,
the heat from a chlamys3
covered up your grief.
And you told us "Excuse me,
I'm going to stay here just five minutes,
five minutes, the ones I still have,
and I'll forget my mourning,
five minutes,
five and no more."
And those minutes drank tequila,
singing, laughing, weeping
to the Tepoztlán moon.
And clocks run away from time
when someone told you "Ma'am,
goddesses never leave".
And then they woke up at dawn,
lost bravery
was in your black eyes,
lacerated by pain.
When you said "loving is not losing",
Sam Peckinpah, from upstairs,
made a toast saying "Hooray, my lady!
to love!"
And you told us "Excuse me,
I'm going to stay here just five minutes,
five minutes, the ones I still have,
and I'll forget my mourning,
five minutes,
five and no more."
Knock, knock, knock, knocking'
on Heaven's door...
Knock, knock, knock, knocking'
on Heaven's door...
Five minutes, five minutes,
the ones I still have, five minutes,
five and no more.
Juan3454✕
Luis Eduardo Aute: Top 3
| 1. | Al alba |
| 2. | Sin tu latido |
| 3. | La belleza |
Idioms from "Cinco minutos"
| 1. | knocking on heaven's door |
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