Tropico De Cancer

Tropic of Cancer

Tropico De Cancer

How is it that you leave SalvadorComo es que te vas Salvador
from the company if there is still so much greenery.de la compañia si todavia hay mucho verdor.

If progress is our jobSi el progreso es nuestro oficio
and there are still many Indians out therey aun queda por ahi mucho Indio
who don't know what it's like to live in a city...que no sabe lo que es vivir en una ciudad...
Like the people.Como la gente.

Don't you see that you are a bridgeQue no ves que eres un puente
between savagery and modernism.entre el salvajismo y el modernismo.
Salvador the engineer,Salvador el ingeniero,
Savior of humanity.Salvador de la humanidad.

It's all well and good what you thinkEsta muy bien lo que tu piensas
but why don't you,pero por que no,
do you remembertu te acuerdas
that ours is a very advanced civilization...que la nuestra es una civilización muy avanzada...
As people say.Como dice la gente.

Don't you see that our mindsQue no ves que nuestra mente
should not take into account:no debe tomar en cuenta:
ecologists, indigenous people,ecologistas, indigenistas,
backward thinkers, and humanists.retrograditas, y humanistas.

Oh my civil engineersHay mis ingenieros
and associates,civiles y asociados,
don't think it doesn't hurt meno crean que no me duele
to leave your side,irme de su lado,
but I thinkpero es que yo pienso
that the time has comeque ha llegado el tiempo
to make roomde darle lugar
for spaces without cement.a los espacios sin cemento.

That's why I'm leaving.Por eso yo ya me voy.
I don't want to have anything to doNo quiero tener nada que ver
with that ugly cycle of action,con esa fea relación de acción,
Construction,Construcción,
Destruction,Destrucción,
Ahha.Ahha.

How is it that you leave SalvadorComo es que te vas Salvador
from the company if there is still so much greenery.de la compañia si todavia hay mucho verdor.

Oh my Mexican oil company colleagues,Hay mis compañeros petroleros mexicanos,
don't think I don't miss the smell of pure oil.no crean que no extraño el olor a óleo puro.
But I think that we humans,Pero es que yo pienso que nosotros los humanos,
we don't needno necesitamos
more hydrocarbons.mas hidrocarburos.

That's why I'm leaving.Por eso yo ya me voy.
I don't want to have anything to doNo quiero tener nada que ver
with that ugly cycle of action,Con esa fea relación de acción,
Construction,Construcción,
Destruction,Destrucción,
Ahha.Ahha.

That's why I'm leaving.Por eso yo ya me voy.
I don't want to have anything to do...No quiero tener nada que ver...

That's why I'm leaving.Por eso yo ya me voy.
I don't want to have anything to do...No quiero tener nada que ver...