| You climb six lonely sad stairs to your apartment
| Subes seis escaleras solitarias y tristes hasta tu apartamento
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| After another graveyard shift in the cold dull light of morning
| Después de otro turno de noche en la fría y tenue luz de la mañana
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| You walked in just in time to catch her as she’s leaving
| Entraste justo a tiempo para atraparla cuando se estaba yendo
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| But the schedules and the conflicts kept the roof over our heads
| Pero los horarios y los conflictos mantuvieron el techo sobre nuestras cabezas
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| You said you were strong and naive and
| Dijiste que eras fuerte e ingenuo y
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| If you were scared, well, I would understand
| Si tuvieras miedo, bueno, lo entendería
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| I don’t think I would have had the guts to handle it
| No creo que hubiera tenido las agallas para manejarlo.
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| All we had were hand-me-downs
| Todo lo que teníamos eran heredados
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| And all we had was good will
| Y todo lo que teníamos era buena voluntad
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| And you always said it would get better
| Y siempre dijiste que mejoraría
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| «When you’re young and you’re poor, they hang on your failures.»
| «Cuando eres joven y eres pobre, se aferran a tus fracasos».
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| And you always said it would get better
| Y siempre dijiste que mejoraría
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| We bought our first house at the advent of the 90s
| Compramos nuestra primera casa a principios de los 90
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| A Cape Cod on a busy street, that we swore we’d fix eventually
| Un Cape Cod en una calle concurrida, que juramos que eventualmente arreglaríamos
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| Winter of '93, we got by with kerosene
| Invierno del 93, nos las arreglamos con queroseno
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| A heater in the living room
| Un calentador en la sala de estar.
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| We huddled around shivering and me
| Nos acurrucamos temblando y yo
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| Trying to get to sleep
| Tratando de conciliar el sueño
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| My clothes will smell of smoke for weeks
| Mi ropa olerá a humo durante semanas
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| Just trying to get to sleep
| Solo tratando de dormir
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| All we had were hand-me-downs
| Todo lo que teníamos eran heredados
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| All we had was good will
| Todo lo que teníamos era buena voluntad
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| And you always said it would get better
| Y siempre dijiste que mejoraría
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| «When you’re young and you’re poor, they hang on your failures.»
| «Cuando eres joven y eres pobre, se aferran a tus fracasos».
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| And you always said it would get better
| Y siempre dijiste que mejoraría
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| But I’m sick of seeing ghosts. | Pero estoy harto de ver fantasmas. |
| I won’t be here forever
| no estaré aquí para siempre
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| My mother wore a sundress on the day that she got married
| Mi madre usó un vestido de verano el día que se casó.
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| They held the wedding in a backyard near the city
| Celebraron la boda en un patio trasero cerca de la ciudad.
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| Well I was just one then, I would never remember it
| Bueno, solo era uno entonces, nunca lo recordaría
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| But I heard the voices, the implications
| Pero escuché las voces, las implicaciones
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| Telling me who I could never be and
| Diciéndome quién nunca podría ser y
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| All we had were hand-me-downs
| Todo lo que teníamos eran heredados
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| And all we had was good will
| Y todo lo que teníamos era buena voluntad
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| All we had were hand-me-downs
| Todo lo que teníamos eran heredados
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| All we had was good will
| Todo lo que teníamos era buena voluntad
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| And you always said it would get better
| Y siempre dijiste que mejoraría
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| «When you’re young and you’re poor, they hang on your failures.»
| «Cuando eres joven y eres pobre, se aferran a tus fracasos».
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| And you always said it would get better | Y siempre dijiste que mejoraría |