El fin y el medio Lyrics English Translation by Jorge Drexler
A refugee is a refugee,
a child is a child
and fear is fear.
Exile is exile
and a hypocrisy is a hypocrisy.
There is no sign, no side,
no ideology, no mystery.
No single end justifies any means.
A harm is a harm
from the verb to harm.
All harms are central harms.
A child is a child,
there’s no such thing as collateral damage.
There is no goal, no cause,
no motive, no prize.
No single end justifies any means.
The end is a point forever distant,
a changing fiction.
A cyclone at the mercy of a leaf,
a paradox like Zeno’s,
where something seems to be getting closer
and always escapes, always hides,
always the exact same distance
from the same horizon.
The finger that pulls the trigger
should know this:
There are no “yours” or “theirs” or “mine”,
if they are children they are ours.
(All children are ours).
There is no homeland, no creed,
no differences of opinion.
No single end justifies any means.
No single end justifies any means.
No single end justifies any means.
No single end justifies any means.