Silvio Rodríguez
Compañera lyrics with English translation
- Language
- Spanish
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 1992
- Length
- 4:20
La canción es la amiga
The song is the friend
Que me arropa y después me desabriga
That warms me up and then leaves me bare
La más clara y oscura
The clearest and the darkest
La más verde y madura
The ripest and the greenest
La más íntima, la más indiscreta
The most intimate, the most indiscreet
La canción me da todo
The song gives me everything
Aunque no me respeta
Even though it doesn't respect me
Se me entrega feliz cuando me viola
It joyfully surrenders when it violates me
La canción es la ola
The song is the wave
Que me eleva y me hunde
That lifts me up and pulls me down
Que me fragua lo mismo que me funde
That which tempers me is the same that melts me
La canción, compañera
The song, companion
Virginal y ramera, la canción
Virgin and whore, the song
Comenzamos un día
We began one day
En los tiempos de siempre y todavía
In the times of always and still
Comenzamos felices a juntar cicatrices
We happily began to gather scars
Como buenas señales de los años
Like good signs of the years
Y peldaño a peldaño levantamos paisaje
And step by step we raised the landscape
Sin excusa, sin ruego y sin ultraje
Without excuse, without plea, and without outrage
¿Quién se atreve a decirme
Who dares to tell me
Que debo arrepentirme
Should I regret
De la esperma quemante que me trajo?
The burning sperm that brought me?
Porque sangra de abajo
Because it bleeds from below
Yo no vendo ni rajo mi pasión
I won't sell or cut my passion
Entre drama y comedia
Between drama and comedy
He llegado trovando a la Edad Media
I've arrived singing to the Middle Ages
Torpe pero sincero, aún no soy caballero
Clumsy but sincere, I’m still not a knight
Y que el cielo me libre de cordura
And may heaven free me from sanity
No me embriaga la altura
Height doesn't intoxicate me
Ni me aburren los sueños
Nor do dreams bore me
No es por moda que estallo y que me empeño
It's not for fashion that I explode and I'm determined
El amor sigue en brete y el camino a machete
Love is still in a bind and the path is a struggle
Mas no lloro por tal ni me amilano
But I don't cry over it nor do I back down
Si conservo mis manos
If I hold on to my hands
Mi sudor y el humano corazón
My sweat and the human heart
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Key vocabulary
- arropa
- covers
- clara
- clearB1
- da
- givesB1
- respeta
- respect
- feliz
- happyA2
- eleva
- raisesC2
- hunde
- drowns
- todavía
- stillA2
- levantamos
- we raise
- excusa
- excuseA2
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.