Requiem por un amigo [English translation]

Curious metamorphosis

strange metamorphosis

of who is born as butterfly

and becomes a spider

Pale shadow you are

of that friend

who was free in his youth

and who I admired

Shadow, bad shadow

that made you fall

in a cake of delicious honey

caught in it by the feet

I come to testify

your lack of bravery

you sold your soul to the devil

for being a great character

You erected yourself a monument

of plastic and papier maché,

and you got tangled in the ivy

of importance and basis

Shadow, bad shadow

that made you fall

in a cake of delicious honey

crowned in glitz

You achieved to reach high

and you are despite of your money

another bear who jumps

to the beat of the same tambourine

Requiem for who was my friend

requiem for who now is strange

I have nothing with you now

pale shadow of yesterday.