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Translation
A Thousand Lives
One lifetime is not enough for a man
The earth gave me a 'when' and a 'where'
Trapped now in this sleepless era
I want to live more lives than my share 1
Travel to landscapes that hide all memory
See myself at the beginning of time without self-awareness
A homosapien whose science is survival
With my skin bare, my patience tames fire
Mother Earth gives the essence which then sustains
Live on the Nile before Jesus Christ 2
Be a scribe in Ancient Egypt, see that I exist
And I still hold out with my Pharaoh Cheops 3
Know who is the owner of the dreams I have and of my reason
Civilisation in grace like Greece
Feel the passion of Plato's world view in person4
From the Parthenon his legacy
Amongst the Corinthian pillars his lessons clean my conscience and they are
Light for the heart, they are light for history
They are light like magnolias in Mongolia
Feel like a samurai, with thirst for glory
Defend my empire, conquering as the only means to make history
[Chorus] (x2)
A thousand lives, I'd like to live them all
One alone is not enough and I crash against the waves
Of time, hours going without direction
Why only one era?, Why only one perspective?
The waves of time reach the Renaissance
There Leonardo is ready for me with a new invention
I sit next to Copernicus in a spherical and metallic world
Meanwhilst the Inquisition follows my steps without a breath
Vienna, 1700, a city full of culture
I feel the beauty of a far-off place
When I reach Mozart I enjoy watching him play
And caress eternity between the notes of his piano
Symphony in harmony
Wanting to live the lives that weren't mine, it's not absurd
Like entering the palace of a tzar in Saint Petersburg
And shouting, Revolution! , to change the world
And whilst it changes I watch it
Nations invade, nations, centuries and losses, destroyed civilizations
Seeing myself next to the Sitting Bull, 5 being a shaman
Meditating in enlightenment in the fields of Dakota
And magic pours forth from my hands, cure of the white man
And the madness that spreads and like this the future is foretold
Meanwhile the sun from its throne watches over and passes judgment
Human beings are only a flicker of all it has seen
Come and crash against the waves of time, millennia which fuse into just one moment, I want to live a thousand lives
[Chorus] (x2)
A thousand lives, I'd like to live them all
One alone is not enough and I crash against the waves
Of time, hours going without direction
Why only one era?, Why only one perspective?
Chicago in the '20s I wear a gabardine, 6 patent leather shoes
I feel chaos watching in every corner
The dry law 7 is established so I attend a cabaret show
In order to forget that Al Capone's mafia 8intends to liquidate me
Travelling to Woodstock 9 and from dawn lying [down] having given myself over to free love and pleasure
Seeing Jimmy Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Tim Hardin in concert
High on LSD, this is my garden, my camp site
My endless freedom and there I see myself, I plunge
Into the meadows of history and its fortune
I want to escape along with this pen from a present that crushes me
Be in the pupil of Neil Armstrong as he walks on the moon
Be a black panther, with my fist raised high, with an afro
Sit with Rosa Parks back in that bus
End of the '70s the South Bronx, there's no more puzzles
Except the desire to live more lives than just one
Madrid '83 I'm restless at the Roccola port
Engrossed in smoking a cigarette
Thinking that the path that separates cradle and grave 12 is short
A thousand lives, I wanted to be there, and I wanted to see everything.
- 1. lit. than that which corresponds me
- 2. that is to say 'BC'
- 3. also know as 'Khufu'
- 4. lit. 'live' as in 'live show'
- 5. a holy man
- 6. in other words a raincoat
- 7. Prohibition of alcohol
- 8. Al Capone = American Gangster
- 9. music festival
- 10. a break dancer from the Bronx, New York
- 11. well-known graffiti artist from the Bronx, New York
- 12. lit. cementery
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Nach: Top 3
| 1. | Amor Libre |
| 2. | El Idioma De Los Dioses |
| 3. | Mil Vidas |
Idioms from "Mil Vidas"
| 1. | make history |
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