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Translation
Visa in Pursuit of a Dream
It had to be five in the morning
There was a college student and a laborer
With a thousand proofs on paper [that one will not be a burden to society]
Which are not enough to prove their sincerity
It had to be seven in the morning
One by one towards the slaughterhouse
Well, because each person has a price
Searching for a visa to pursue a dream
[Brief Musical Interlude]
Vai, lo lai… Vai, lo lai… [Go there, go ahead, go there]
The sun burning from within them
A form to fill as consolation
With a 2x4 photograph
That melts in the silence
It had to be nine in the morning
Santo Domingo, the 8th of January
With a patience that reaches its limits
Young man/young woman, there is no visa for your dreams.
[Brief Musical Interlude]
Oh, no. No, no, no…
Looking for a visa to pursue your dreams
Looking for a visa to pursue your dreams
Looking for a visa made of cement and mortar/as a bricklayer/construction worker
Yet, in the streets, who will find me/see me?
Looking for a visa to pursue your dreams
Looking for a visa to pursue your dreams
Looking for a visa to find a reason to exist
Looking for a visa to find a reason not to return
Looking for a visa to pursue your dreams
Looking for a visa to pursue your dreams
[Musical Interlude]
Looking for a visa
[Because there is] a need/an urgency
Looking for a visa
The rage/the anger that it makes me feel
Looking for a visa
The hurt/blow to my sense of what I can do/to what I know myself capable of
Looking for a visa
What more can I do?
Looking for a visa
So that I don’t find myself lost or drowned while fleeing a sinking ship
Looking for a visa
The prey of the Sea [refers to himself/to the Island as a whole.]
Looking for a visa
The reason for being
Looking for a visa
To not return to THIS.
[Musical Refrain]
[Helicopter propeller sounds]
‘Come out of the water, come out of the water.’
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