If I am here, miserable,
Soul in pain, uncomfortable,
In this faceless city,
A hundred times I've lacked courage

I'm sinking, if I repress myself
In this sad and sublime setting
If I harm myself, night after night
Day after day, my love

If I pray and if I write,
If I live like one gambles,
If I crush my empty heart
To extract the acid,
If I cry or if I implore
The sky, life or death,
If I die and if I bite
...Then I still think about it

If I laugh like all these people,

Kindly showing their teeth,
Greet as one insults
Make love as one exults

If I drink and if I drown
My warm sorrow in my coolness,
If I bleed and if I sign
With my tears your unworthy heart

If I pray and if I write,
If I live like one gambles,
If I crush my empty heart
To extract the acid,
If I cry or if I implore
The sky, life or death,
If I die and if I bite
...Then I still think about it

If I break myself so often
For a kiss a bad wind,
If the sun does not reach me
If sleep does not extinguish me

If my lips drag my sorrows,
My regrets of everything and nothing
If my dreams drag the morning,
Instead of living I remember...

If I pray and if I write,
If I live like one gambles,
If I crush my empty heart
To extract the acid,
And I cry or then I implore
The sky, life or death,
And I die and if I bite

Then I think and then I write,
And I live like one gambles,
and I crush my empty heart,
to extract the acid,
and I cry and then I implore the sky, life, or death
and I die and then I bite,
Then I still think about it

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