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Title: City Fish Lyrics: Joaquín Sabina Music: Joaquín Sabina and Pancho Varona Album: Dímelo en la Calle (2002) Lyrics: The traveler who wanted to teach me to kiss at the Gare d’Austerlitz combed her hair like a boy. Springtime of a love as yellow and frugal as the sun of Indian summer. Some say that I was the first to forget when I met Mademoiselle Amsterdam in a B flat by Jacques Brel. In fatuous New York, the Statue of Liberty gives more shade than the lemon trees, but on Desolation Row the oil tankers’ sirens don’t let anyone laugh or fly, and in the chorus of Babel, a Spaniard is out of tune. There is no law but the law of the treasure in King Solomon’s mines. And braving the waves without a rudder or helmsman, through my dreams, lightly bagged, on a walnut shell, my heart travels, displaying the tattoos of a buccaneer past, of a sailboat to be boarded, of a woman's garter. And how to flee when there are no islands left to shipwreck to the country where the wise retreat from the insult of seeking lips that drive you crazy, lies that win trials so summary that they debase the glass of the aquariums of the city fish that took the bait, that dive at ground level, that do not deserve to swim. El Dorado was a shampoo, virtue was arms crossed, sin was a web page. In Comala I understood that you should not try to return to the place where you have been happy. When I set foot in the sky of Madrid on a regular flight, a newlywed was waiting for me who did not remember me. And braving the waves without a rudder or helmsman, through my dreams goes, lightly bagged, on a walnut shell, my heart on a journey, displaying the tattoos of a buccaneer past, of a sailboat to be boarded, of a woman's garter. And how to flee when there are no islands left to shipwreck the country where the wise retreat from the insult of seeking lips that drive one crazy, lies that win trials so summary that they debase the glass of the aquariums of the city fish that lost their gills in a school of trash fish, on a beach without a sea.