Las Estatuas

The Statues

Las Estatuas

When it rains, I feel a certain uneaseCuando llueve me dan no sé qué
The statuesLas estatuas
Can never go out as a coupleNunca pueden salir en pareja
With umbrellasCon paraguas
And they remain as if in penanceY se quedan como en penitencia
LonelySolitarias

Pointing out the inevitabilitySeñalando la fatalidad
In the squaresEn las plazas
They watch seriously as little cars pass byMiran serias pasar cochecitos
And maidsY mucamas
They don't laugh because they never hadNo se ríen porque no tuvieron
A childhoodNunca infancia

PuppetsMarionetas
Big, stillGrandes, quietas
No one plays with themCon ellas no juega nadie
But if a magic shadowPero si una sombra maga
Were to erase them foreverPara siempre las borrase
What pain would fallQué dolor caería
Upon Buenos AiresSobre Buenos Aires

When it rains and I go to sleepCuando llueve y me voy a dormir
The statuesLas estatuas
Watch over pale untilVelan pálidas hasta que llegue
Morning comesLa mañana
And from the dream of the little birdsY del sueño de los pajaritos
They are guardiansSon guardianas

They try to convey their memorySu memoria procuran decir
Without wordsSin palabras
And they ask us for the little almsY nos piden la poca limosna
Of looking at themDe mirarlas
When they want to tell us a storyCuando quieren contarnos un cuento
Of the homelandDe la Patria

PuppetsMarionetas
Big, stillGrandes, quietas
No one plays with themCon ellas no juega nadie
But if a magic shadowPero si una sombra maga
Were to erase them foreverPara siempre las borrase
What pain would fallQué dolor caería
Upon Buenos AiresSobre Buenos Aires