Silvio Rodríguez
Abracadabra lyrics with English translation
- Language
- Spanish
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 1992
- Length
- 4:04
Una mujer
A woman
Por despecho o por placer
Out of spite or for pleasure
Enterró en un jardín
Buried in a garden
Un coco seco mojado en carmín
A dry coconut soaked in carmine
Luego, un rival
Then, a rival
Narcotraficando el mal
Trafficking in evil
Escupía con ron
Spitting with rum
Y alfilereaba un feliz corazón
And pinning a happy heart
Yo no sé
I don't know
Cómo hay quien malversa la vida
How some mismanage their lives
Cómo hay quien invoca una herida
How there are those who invoke a wound
Cómo pueden gastar el amor
How can they waste love
Yo no sé
I don't know
Como si nos faltaran cadenas
As if we were missing chains
Como si nos sobraran las cenas
As if we had dinners to spare
Como si diera dicha el dolor
As if pain brought joy
Yo no sé
I don't know
Si el mal tiempo trae mala fe
If bad weather brings bad faith
Si la desesperación hace blanco
If despair makes a target
Y se cierran los laicos colegios
And the secular schools close down
Si se vuelve al sortilegio
If it returns to the spell
Y aprendices de delfín
And apprentices of the dolphin
Creen llegar
Think they can reach
A Merlín
Merlin
Yo no sé
I don't know
Si el mal tiempo trae mala fe
If the bad weather brings malice
Pero a mí lo que me embruja es volar
But what enchants me is to fly
Y hechizarme con tus sortilegios
And to be enchanted by your spells
Soy brillante en tu colegio
I shine in your school
Subo nota en el amor
I raise my grade in love
Vuelo allí
I fly there
Como al sol
Like to the sun
Un colibrí
A hummingbird
Abracadabra
Abracadabra
Curandera, mi palabra
Healer, my word
Todo mal pone bien
All that is wrong makes it right
Sana del odio y vacuna también
Heals from hate and a vaccine too
Abracadabra
Abracadabra
Siga la pata en su cabra
Follow the hoof on its goat
Girasol, alhelí
Sunflower, wallflower
La mariposa besó al colibrí
The butterfly kissed the hummingbird
Al colibrí
The hummingbird
Al colibrí
The hummingbird
Al colibrí
The hummingbird
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Key vocabulary
- amor
- loveB1
- allí
- thereA1
- brillante
- brightB2
- aprendices
- apprenticesC1
- despecho
- spite
- placer
- pleasureB2
- enterró
- buried
- seco
- dryA2
- carmín
- crimsonA2
- narcotraficando
- trafficking
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About this song
Silvio Rodríguez is a Cuban singer-songwriter associated with nueva trova and nueva canción. He is known for politically charged, lyric-driven protest songs set against tender folk balladry, and for helping define the style that emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s.