‘‘ Ser o no ser’’

VOICE 1: I wanted to be a good baseball player, but I never learned to bat, and when I was a kid I wanted to be a cowboy, and I wanted to be Superman, because the legends of Tarzan tasted like the Ku Klux Klan. I was the worst student in school of the few cases, and I was just another troublemaker, one of the good ones, and I wasn't an engineer because I didn't want to, and until I could sing more or less sincerely, I almost had to ask for help. I wanted to be like Silvio and Pablo, but I was never great, and I wanted to sing with a beautiful voice like Xiomara Laugart's, the one that inspires me like Benny Moré, and to play like Elton John. I wanted to be like Djavan, that the games save me, and so I committed the penalty of not being original, but I grew up with this world that I loved, I committed the penalty of living to sing, to lose. DUO: Or to win. DUO: And I was just another good street sweeper, and I didn't go to the barber because I didn't want to, and until I could sing more or less sincerely, I almost had to ask for help. I would like to be minister of justice to give it to peace, I would like to be minister of culture for the, la, la, la, la, la, la, if I were the owner of food, I were the king of reason, and ambition would have marked my face and hands, DUO: That's why I'm a good singer, and I sing, a less new singer. DUO: and until I could sing more or less sincerely, I almost had to ask for help. DUO: and that's why I'm a good singer, and I sing, a less new singer, and until I could sing more or less sincerely, what do they accuse me of? Help!

VOZ 1: Yo quise ser un pelotero bueno, pero no aprendí a batear
y quise cuando niño ser vaquero y quise ser un superman,
pues las leyendas de Tarzán
sabían a Ku Klux Klan.

Yo fui el peor alumno escolar de los casos escasos
y fui un pendenciero más,
de los buenos
y no fui ingeniero
porque no quiero,
y hasta que pude cantar
más o menos
sincero,
yo tuve casi que pedir socorro.

Yo quise parecerme a Silvio y Pablo pero nunca fui genial
y quise cantar con la voz bonita como la de Xiomara Laugart,
la que me inspira como Benny Moré
y tocar como Elton John.

Yo quise parecerme a Djavan,
que me salven los juegos,
y así
cometí
la pena de no ser original,
pero crecí con este mundo que amé,
cometí la pena de vivir para cantar,
para perder
DÚO: O para ganar.

DÚO: Y fui un barrendero más
de los buenos,
y no fui al barbero
porque no quiero
y hasta que pude cantar
más o menos sincero
yo tuve casi que pedir socorro.

Quisiera ser ministro de justicia para
darla a la paz,
quisiera ser ministro de cultura para la, la, la, la, la, la, la,
si fuera el dueño de la alimentación
fuera el rey de la razón
y la ambición me hubiera marcado
la cara y las manos,
DÚO: Por eso soy un cantor
de los buenos
y soy canta, cantador
menos nuevo
DÚO: y hasta que pude cantar
más o menos sincero
yo tuve casi que pedir socorro.
DÚO: y por eso soy un cantor
de los buenos
y soy canta, cantador
menos nuevo,
y hasta que pude cantar
más o menos, sincero
¿de qué me acusan?,
¡Socorro!