Barranquilla - Beatriz Luengo

Ahí está

Como las aves que cuando vuelan, siempre regresan al nido

Ahí está

Como una estrella que alumbra su Colombia querida

Ella no encontró un futuro mejor

Desesperada ante las puertas de la miseria

Viendo acercarse la tragedia de estar sin techo

Y sin cobijo, tembló al mirar la cara de su hijo

Y aceptó ese trato que no saldría nada barato

Aunque ser mula del narcotráfico, no era su sueño

Ella sabía que ante la adversidad

Los sueños se convierten en la dura realidad

Tan pura de tomar, como lo que ella misma ha de tragar

Y mientras el hombre la convencía, le recordaba

Que mientras más tragaba más dinero hacía…

Mientras tragaba, rezaba

Mientras rezaba, pedía

A este Dios que hoy le cuida

Si este pecado le perdonaría

Mientras tragaba, rezaba

Mientras rezaba, pedía

Por su hijo, si es que algún día

No lo entendería

Mientras tragaba, rezaba

Mientras rezaba, pedía

A este Dios que hoy le cuida

Si este pecado le perdonaría

Mientras tragaba, rezaba

Mientras rezaba, pedía

Y entendía que este era el precio

De las calles de Barranquilla…

No sabe qué le espera, no sabe quién le espera

Detrás de la frontera y sólo espera

Que mientras la cachean

No sea su cara quien delate la primera prueba

Cuando sentada pensaba que lo peor había pasado

Leyendas que le contaron, rondaron por su cabeza

Y es que ese dolor en su estómago

Wse sudor que no cesa ya

Y mientras respiraba pa' calmar sus nervios

Preguntaba si el veneno que mató su conciencia

Hoy robaría su presencia

Pero ya es tarde, ya es tarde

Porque esta pasajera no se despierta!

Mientras tragaba, rezaba

Mientras rezaba, pedía

A este Dios que hoy le cuida

Si este pecado le perdonaría

Mientras tragaba, rezaba

Mientras rezaba, pedía

Por su hijo, si es que algún día

No lo entendería

Mientras tragaba, rezaba

Mientras rezaba, pedía

A este Dios que hoy le cuida

Si este pecado le perdonaría

Mientras tragaba, rezaba

Mientras rezaba, pedía

Y entendía que este era el precio

De las calles de Barranquilla…

There is

Like the birds that when they fly, they always return to the nest

There is

Like a star that lights up your beloved Colombia

She did not find a better future

Desperate before the gates of misery

Seeing the tragedy of being homeless approaching

And without shelter, she shivered as she looked at her son's face

And she accepted that deal that nothing would come cheap

Although being a drug mule was not his dream

She knew that in the face of adversity

Dreams become the harsh reality

So pure to drink, as what she herself has to swallow

And while the man convinced her, she reminded him

That the more she swallowed the more money she made she…

As she swallowed, she prayed

As she prayed, she asked

To this God who cares for you today

If this sin would forgive him

As she swallowed, she prayed

As she prayed, she asked

For her son of hers, if one day

she wouldn't understand

As she swallowed, she prayed

As she prayed, she asked

To this God who cares for you today

If this sin would forgive him

As she swallowed, she prayed

As I prayed, I asked

And she understood that this was the price

From the streets of Barranquilla...

She doesn't know what awaits her, she doesn't know who awaits her

Behind the border and just waiting

That while they frisk her

It is not her face that betrays the first test

When she sat she thought the worst was over

Legends that were told to him, haunted his head

And that pain in your stomach

Wse sweat that she does not stop anymore

And while she breathed to calm her nerves

She was asking if the poison that killed her conscience

She today she would steal his presence

But it's too late, it's too late

Because this passenger does not wake up!

As she swallowed, she prayed

As she prayed, she asked

To this God who cares for you today

If this sin would forgive him

As she swallowed, she prayed

As she prayed, she asked

For her son of hers, if one day

she wouldn't understand

As she swallowed, she prayed

As I prayed, I asked

To this God who cares for you today

If this sin would forgive him

As she swallowed, she prayed

As she prayed, she asked

And she understood that this was the price

From the streets of Barranquilla...