La Vida No Vale Nada [English translation]

Life is worth nothing

if it does not come to an end

so others can have

what one enjoys and loves.

Life is worth nothing

if I just sit here

having seen and imagined

that they call to me everywhere.

Life is worth nothing

when people are killing one another

and I go on singing here

as if nothing was happening.

Life is worth nothing

if I hear a death cry

and it does not touch

my heart it stops.

Life is worth nothing

if I disregard the fact that the assassin

has gone by a different route

and prepares another ambush.

Life is worth nothing

if another brother is taken by surprise

when I knew beforehand

what was being prepared for him.

Life is worth nothing

if four fall every minute

and in the end by crime

the day is won.

Life is worth nothing

if I have to put off

another minute of being

and die in a bed.

Life is worth nothing

if in the end what goes on around me

I cannot change no matter

what I have and what protects me.

And that is why for me

life is worth nothing.