Mi lista negra [English translation]

I know that you're dying to know where you stand in my mind

And that wondering if you're on my blacklist keeps you from sleeping peacefully at night

On my list, there are traitors.

There are debtors, creditors and resentments that used to be lovers

There are feigned saviors dressed like preachers

There are saints and sinners, worse than rodents

My list isn't easily boiled down and if it were seen

Would provoke the most provocative of the provocateurs

There are slanderers and ingrates

People I did favors for who now turn a blind eye

I added legislators from several parties

And it's well known that some make a great show of having less brains than last names.

There are conquered conqueror and hardened dictators

Pardon my assertion, but my list

To these outlaws is the most feared of all tumors

There’s the fickle fiend that threw me in the gutter wearing formal attire

It was a vendetta, for not telling him that his fly was open

There are pimps, from A to Z

There's Romeo, there's Juliet; macho men: alpha and beta.

And now people are alarmed if there names end in “a”1

Birthed by Mendieta!, if I search

I see that my list has more garbo2 than Greta

I know that you're dying to know where you stand in my mind

And that wondering if you're on my blacklist keeps you from sleeping peacefully at night

That one is on my list; the one that never returned after saying,”I’m going to the bathroom, be right back.”

And the one that left with something borrowed saying, “I’ll return it immediately”

I absolve no one, nor am I lenient, my list even includes relatives

And the demented teacher that gave me moonshine in kindergarten

My list is my confidant and it's courageous, like Schindler's

There are jet set people, a painting by Monet

A brand of champagne and cabernet, it includes Ortega and Gasset

It’s not to start trouble, but my list has no reset, I’m telling you tête a tête

And if I pull out the scythe, for the worst of the riff-raff, I even add photo IDs

And not even the rarest of vermin

Has the mad skills to put my list on the internet

Then there’s Lisett, that friend of my mom’s who wanted me to dance ballet

And finding out that she was on it, said that if deleted, she’d pay my fee

When I read her name, my stomach turns, cobwebs are removed

The air grows so thick and steamy that it can be cut with Gillete

That’s it! My list is more more dangerous than a piranha in a bidet!

I know that you're dying to know where you stand in my mind

And that wondering if you're on my blacklist keeps you from sleeping peacefully at night

I rewind and I see that class-conscious boss that

Fired me because it came up during his behavior therapy

For being an opportunist, he and his analyst are listed

People who crossed the line are listed

In addition, there are those who weren't there when I expected them to be there

And those who laughed when I fell, those are also there

My list is more bitter and longer than the number pi

My list is my therapy in discouraging times

It’s my hiding place and my courage before suffering

It's my first and last commandment; it's a document

And on it are the names of those that made me suffer

I’m not lying, my list is my instrument and

It’s tactless, so excuse me

If I show it or give it

It’ll be harder than seeing the wind’s shadow

I know that you're dying to know where you stand in my mind

And that wondering if you're on my blacklist keeps you from sleeping peacefully at night

1. Literally end in “eta”. The rhyme and word play is lost in English2. grace and poise