La Danza del Venado [English translation]

How can you be a pilot

Being afraid of heights

How do you find a remedy

When there's no cure

Not even becoming a priest

Leaves one free of sin

Because the one who owes a debt

Moans if you collect from him

The cobra doesn't attack

If it's not touched

Whoever touches the blood

Will surely be condemned

With the dance of the deer

Come to where they have fallen

On account of so much wrongdoing

There's no room among the living

In hostile lands

It never doubles

Brave, there are thousands

Who also beg

Don't plead for mercy

If pity wasn't your style

Where there is much deceit

There is no reversal

Follow the protocol

According to the offense

An eye for an eye1

Say "I'm here" at once

Why feign surprise

If the Bible tells you

Everyone who acts in self-defense

Even heaven blesses him

Time brings time

Where a wise man said

The sun came out that

Blows the wind away

Why fix

What has never been broken

The point is debatable

And very considerable

He is not intangible

And irrevocable

If you speak or act

It's because it's more than decided

Of course it's reasoned

Whatever dictates destino

And the dance of the deer

Has the path laid out

1. Literally, "the law of retaliation"