[Verse 1] Twelve millimeters, stitched in a body four kilos light, that tube was measured for an infant, not for future height. Thirty kilos coming, the femur stretching wide, but the conduit stays frozen — no cells divide inside. Calcium courts the leaflets, stiffening like dried clay, stenosis creeping narrow, regurgitation seeps away. Echo gradients climbing, month by month they rise, this ain't some grim surprise, it's the expected size. [Chorus] El corazón remendado, not a heart that's whole and free, one prosthetic link is holding — watch it, corazón, watch it lifelong, sí. Não é normal, mas é vida — the plumbing runs in series now, parallel became a highway, but the bridge needs mending somehow. [Verse 2] First we reach it with a catheter, balloon opens up the lane, a stent props the corridor before it narrows again. Melody, SAPIEN — a valve folded on a wire, percutaneous placement, tucked inside the old attire. But balloons and stents are borrowed time, not the final say, most patients meet a surgeon before their twenties, on the way — conduit replacement, maybe two, maybe three, the toll charged on the highway built from mixing to a series. [Chorus] El corazón remendado, not a heart that's whole and free, one prosthetic link is holding — watch it, corazón, watch it lifelong, sí. Não é normal, mas é vida — the plumbing runs in series now, parallel became a highway, but the bridge needs mending somehow. [Verse 3] The neo-aortic valve was pulmonary, built for softer strain, now it's bracing systemic pressure, feeling all that gain. Regurgitation grows, the root may stretch and swell, some walk toward a valve job dressed in a borrowed shell. Branch PA's got narrowing where they sewed the seam — balloon it, stent it, keep the lung fields in the stream. The VSD patch mostly holds, a trivial little leak, we watch it every visit, calm, we never lose our sleep. [Bridge] El sistema de conducción lies right beside that patch, heart block comes uninvited, so we monitor and catch. Prosthetic material, ricos em risco de infecção — brush your teeth like scripture, antibiotics, proteção. Não é falha, é física — plastic doesn't multiply, we surveil this heart forever, corazón, até o fim. [Chorus] El corazón remendado, not a heart that's whole and free, one prosthetic link is holding — watch it, corazón, watch it lifelong, sí. Não é normal, mas é vida — the plumbing runs in series now, parallel became a highway, but the bridge needs mending somehow. [Outro] Series circuit, one true seam to keep, lifelong watching while the old scar sleeps. Corazón remendado, para siempre vigilar, não é normal — mas segue a bater, segue a bater.
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