El dulce minuet [English translation]

There are days in life

when nothing is funny

I feel pesimistic, sad and unbelieving

But when I'm in a bad mood

and I don't know what to do

then I sing

this happy and sweet minuet

There's famine in Southafrica, la la la la la la

Kidnappings in Beirut, la la la la la la

Shootings in Ireland, la la la la la la

And strikes in Peru, la la la la la la la

The earth is plagued

of devastated souls

Russians hate chinese

chineses hate cubans

in England they hate the yankees

in Italy they hate italians

and I don't exactly like anybody

But however

we can be calm

because we have as decoration

a mushroom cloud

And also the certainty

that some beautiful afternoon

someone will push the button

and we will all blow up

There's famine in Southafrica, la la la la la la

And massacres in Vietnam, la la la la la la

What nature didn't want to give us

our fellows will give it