«Eungenio» Salvador Dalí [English translation]

Dalí blurs himself.

His bubble shivers

when deducting heartbeats.

Dalí loses his colour

because this washer

doesn't distinguish fabrics.

He realises

and, scared, he grumbles:

'Geniuses shouldn't die'.

There are more than eighty,

the ones curving your skeleton.

'Eungenio'1 Salvador Dalí.

A rocococo2 mustache

from where the genius ends

to where the madman begins.

A dazzled look

from where the madman ends

to where the fairy begins.

Inside your head, beauty is compressed

as if it was a pressure cooker.

It's the vapour coming out through the weight,

a magical light in Cadaqués3.

If you reincarnate in something,

do it as a pencil or a paintbrush

and the silky-skin Gala4

may do so as a canvas or as paper.

If you reincarnate in flesh,

reincarnate again as yourself

'cause we're short of geniuses.

'Eungenio' Salvador Dalí.

Realist and Surrealist

with the light of an Impressionist

and an impressive stroke.

A colouristic delusion,

synthetic tears and an oculist

with delirious eyes.

In your palette, you mix mystical ascetics

with bayonets and breasts

and inside your brain, Gala, God and pesetas,

a good Catalan hermit.

If you reincarnate in something,

do it as a pencil or a paintbrush

and the silky-skin Gala

may do so as a canvas or as paper.

If you reincarnate in flesh,

reincarnate again as yourself.

We want alive geniuses.

We want you to be here,

'Eungenio' Salvador Dalí.

1. 'Eungenio' is a wordplay that sounds like the Spanish name 'Eugenio' but mixing it up with the Italian sentence "È un genio", which means, 'He's a genius'. I decided to leave it as 'Eungenio' in the translation for in the lyrics it is used as if it was a nickname.2. Refers to the Rococó style from the eighteenth century, characterised by a lot of decoration.3. Cadaqués is a provincial town in Catalonia, Spain, frequently visited by Salvador Dalí in his childhood.4. Refers to Gala Dalí, Salvador Dalí's wife and fellow artist.