Cádiz Nuestro (Presentación)

Our Cádiz, that’s buried in the ground
Hallowed be your name
Bring back your innocence to us
Let your carnival happen in the streets like in the temple

Give us today the rhythm for each day
Forgive our songs
As we forgive those who offend us
Don’t let us lose this tradition
And deliver us from evil, amen

Everyone born in the south
Carries in their essence like a flag
The beach, the wind, the light
And a sea that holds its secrets tight
Its secrets tight

Some manage to leave
Thirsty for dreams and new goals
Wandering souls without peace
Who cry in their distance from our sorrow
For our sorrow

And those of us who remain here
Wear this tune as our mourning
Before the endless grave
Of this land that runs through my veins
Oh, through my veins

That I had to dress as a grave digger
To drive the heart in
And shout with courage to the four winds
That my Cádiz is already in the bones
Oh, in the bones

Girl, free me from this curse
Of having to see you one day
Buried under the stones
But listen girl
Free me from this curse
Of having to see you one day
Buried under the stones

Carnival-goer
It’s time to step away from the ink
Because neither as an original nor as a worker
Have I managed to wake your conscience

There are no more paths
Than to walk the streets and scare away all together
Every scavenger crow and filthy one
That’s slowly killing my city

It doesn’t matter if Cádiz is hidden underground
Or if it’s kidnapped on a twisted moon
This isn’t about songs
That end by February
I’m talking about a sea
That’s dying from bleeding out

Girl, free me from this curse
Of having to see you one day
Buried under the stones

Let the bells ring, a new burial is coming
It’ll be a requiem for your children, for your neighborhoods, your history, your accent
Let the shovels rumble, wake up this people
Or soon the day will come when it’ll be the city of the cemetery

That I had to dress as a grave digger
The city of the cemetery
That I had to dress as a grave digger
The city of the cemetery