Les Luthiers — Epopeya De Edipo De Tebas song lyrics and translation
The page contains the lyrics and English translation of the song "Epopeya De Edipo De Tebas" by Les Luthiers.
Lyrics
De Edipo de Tebas
Haciendo memoria
Os cuento la historia
Con penas y glorias
De Edipo de Tebas
Le dijo el oráculo
Edipo tu vida
Se pone movida
Serás parricida
Le dijo el oráculo
Seguía diciendo
Si bien yo detesto
Hablarte de esto
Se viene, se viene un incesto
Seguía diciendo
Sabiendo tal cosa
Su padre el rey Layo
Veloz como un rayo
Le dijo a un lacayo
Sabiendo tal cosa
Te irás con mi hijo
No quiero que crezca
Haz tu que perezca
Como te parezca
Te irás con mi hijo
Cumplida la orden
El muy desdichado
Con los pies atados
Quedose, quedose colgado
Cumplida la orden
Edipo salvose
Y a Layo matolo
Peleándolo él solo
Al cielo enviolo
Edipo salvose
Semanas mas tarde
A Tebas avanza
Resolver alcanza
Cierta adivinanza
Semanas mas tarde
La Esfinge de Tebas
Al ser derrotada
Se ofusca, se enfada
Y se hace, y se hace pomada
La Esfinge de Tebas
Y sin darse cuenta
Casado él está
Con quien saben ya
Su propia mamá
Y sin darse cuenta
De sus propios hijos
Hay larga secuela
Y aunque esto le duela
Yocasta es abuela
De sus propios hijos
Edipo al saberlo
En una entrevista
Con su analista
Se quita, se quita la vista
Edipo al saberlo
Al ver a una esfinge
Planteando un dilema
Huid del problema
Cambiando de tema
Al ver a una esfinge
Madres amantes
Tomad precauciones
Por las efusiones
De hijos varones
Madres amantes
Por no repetir
La historia nefasta
De Edipo y Yocasta
Lo dicho, lo dicho ya basta
Por no repetir
Lyrics translation
Of Oedipus of Thebes
Making memory
I'll tell you the story
With sorrows and glories
Of Oedipus of Thebes
The Oracle told him
Oedipus your life
She gets moved
You'll be parricidal
The Oracle told him
I kept saying
While I hate
Tell you about this
If it comes, if it comes an incest
I kept saying
Knowing such a thing
His father the lay King
Fast as lightning
He told a lackey
Knowing such a thing
You're leaving with my son.
I don't want it to grow
Make you perish
As you like
You're leaving with my son.
Completed the order
The most unfortunate
With his feet tied
Stay, stay hung
Completed the order
Oedipus salvose
And Layo matolo
Fighting him alone
To heaven enviolo
Oedipus salvose
Weeks later
Thebes advances
Resolve reaches
Some riddle
Weeks later
The Sphinx of Thebes
When defeated
He gets obfuscated, he gets angry
And it's made, and it's made ointment
The Sphinx of Thebes
And without realizing
Married he is
With whom they already know
Her own mom
And without realizing
Of their own children
There is long sequel
And though this hurts
Yocasta is a grandmother
Of their own children
Oedipus upon knowing
In an interview
With your analyst
Get out, get out of sight
Oedipus upon knowing
Seeing a sphinx
Posing a dilemma
Escape from the problem
Changing the subject
Seeing a sphinx
Loving mothers
Take precautions
By the effusions
Children
Loving mothers
By not repeating
The nefarious story
Of Oedipus and Yocasta
What has been said, what has been said is enough
By not repeating