Tiempos Mejores

From a very young age I knew loneliness,
And felt a lot of fear in the midst of darkness,
I understood that life wasn't easy for me,
That I would have to fight, if I wanted to be happy.

And I thought, someday I will achieve it,
Better times will always come.

I walked a thousand paths, searching for love,
I found it on a beach and it only left me,
A splinter stuck right here in my heart,
And a few ghosts inside my room.

And I thought, someday I will find it,
Better times will always come.

I visited a hundred countries, I always liked to travel,
Very different people, many ways of thinking,
But the poor people who always suffer and give,
They were no different, everywhere was the same.

And I thought, I will only tell them,
Better times will always come.
Better times will always come.

I listened to the news today on television,
Dead and badly injured from Ireland to Ecuador,
Faces distorted by hunger and anxiety,
It was rivers of blood that I could imagine.

Better times will always come.

I live with the hope of seeing a blue sky,
And leaving in the children even a ray of light,
Better times will always come,
Better times will always come.