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My Car Was a Frog

Pedro Suárez-Vértiz

Mi Auto Era Una Rana

Yo no tengo mucho dinero
Tengo un autito colosal
Ella se escurre por las calles montañosas
Escapándose y dejándose atrapar

Nos fuimos para el cementerio
Tiré el asiento para atrás
A ver, mi amor, quisiera ver en carne viva
Aquellas piernas que toqué en la oscuridad

Mi auto era una rana, saltaba oyendo blues
Mi auto era una rana, saltaba oyendo blues

Yo no soy el hombre de acero
Yo soy un hombre de verdad
Mis ojos de mi cara se salieron
Y de boca, me clavé en el huracán

Casi llegando al mismo cielo
Ella dejó de respirar
Se desnudó entera en el asiento trasero
Se sentó en mí y no dejo de cabalgar

Mi auto era una rana, saltaba oyendo blues
Mi auto era una rana, saltaba oyendo blues

Puse un cassette de Janis Joplin
Subí el volumen mucho más
Entró una luz incandescente, ella me dijo
Los marcianos nos vinieron a llevar

Bajé del auto con cuidado
Se me acercó un verde señor
Disculpe, jefe, no me lleve, soy cantante
Y le prometo hablar de usted en esta canción

Mi auto era una rana, saltaba oyendo blues
Mi auto era una rana, saltaba oyendo blues

Mi auto era una rana, saltaba oyendo blues
Mi auto era una rana, saltaba oyendo blues

Mi auto era una rana, saltaba oyendo blues
Mi auto era una rana, saltaba oyendo blues

Mi auto era una rana, saltaba oyendo blues
Mi auto era una rana, saltaba oyendo blues

My Car Was a Frog

I don't have much money
I have a colossal little car
She slips through the mountainous streets
Escaping and letting herself be caught

We went to the cemetery
I pushed the seat back
Let's see, my love, I would like to see in the flesh
Those legs I touched in the darkness

My car was a frog, it jumped listening to blues
My car was a frog, it jumped listening to blues

I'm not the man of steel
I'm a real man
My eyes came out of my face
And from my mouth, I got stuck in the hurricane

Almost reaching the same sky
She stopped breathing
She undressed completely in the back seat
She sat on me and didn't stop riding

My car was a frog, it jumped listening to blues
My car was a frog, it jumped listening to blues

I put on a Janis Joplin cassette
I turned up the volume even more
An incandescent light came in, she told me
The Martians came to take us away

I got out of the car carefully
A green man approached me
Excuse me, boss, don't take me, I'm a singer
And I promise to talk about you in this song

My car was a frog, it jumped listening to blues
My car was a frog, it jumped listening to blues

My car was a frog, it jumped listening to blues
My car was a frog, it jumped listening to blues

My car was a frog, it jumped listening to blues
My car was a frog, it jumped listening to blues

My car was a frog, it jumped listening to blues
My car was a frog, it jumped listening to blues

Escrita por: Pedro Suárez-Vértiz