Cruz de navajas [English translation]

Bar 33 closes at five

But Mario doesn’t get out until six

And if he’s cashing up, forget it

It's nearly always daylight

Meanwhile María is already up and about

She’s tidied the house, she’s even made coffee

And she’s waiting for him only half dressed

Mario comes back tired and greets her unenthusiastically

He wants to go to bed for another reason

And María dips her desires in her coffee

Magdalenes of convex sex

Then off to work in a department store

When she gets back, there’s nothing more

Than a silent bed frame that they use in turns

Cross of knives for a woman

Deadly sparkles rise at dawn

Blood staining the sunrise in mauve

But today there's been a raid at Bar 33

Mario comes back at ten to five

Along his empty street, in the distance

He sees a couple passionately kissing

And poor Mario wants to die

When he gets closer and discovers

That it’s María with someone else

Three crosses on Mario, who’s flat on his face

One on the forehead, the one that hurt most

One in the chest, the one that killed him

And another is a lie on the news

Two drug addicts in withdrawal

Rob and kill Mario Postigo

While his wife looks on from the doorstep

Instead of a cross of knives for a woman

Deadly sparkles rise at dawn

Blood staining the sunrise in mauve