
Silvio Rodríguez
Con diez años de menos lyrics with English translation
- Language
- Spanish
- Level
- Advanced
- Released
- 1979
- Length
- 7:10
Si fuera diez años más joven, qué feliz
If I were ten years younger, how happy
Y qué descamisado el tono de decir
And how unbuttoned the tone of saying
Cada palabra desatando un temporal
Each word unleashing a storm
Y enloqueciendo la etiqueta ocasional
And driving me crazy with the occasional tag
Los años son pues mi mordaza, oh mujer
The years are therefore my gag, oh woman
Sé demasiado, me convierto en mi saber
I know too much, I become my knowledge
Quisiera haberte conocido años atrás
I wish I'd met you years ago
Para sacar chispas del agua que me das
To spark fires from the water you give me
Para empuñar la alevosía y el candor
To wield treachery and innocence
Y saber olvidar mejor
And to forget better
Esta mujer propone que salte y me estrelle
This woman proposes that I leap and crash
Contra un muro de piedras que alza en el cielo
Against a wall of stones that rises to the sky
Y como combustible me llena de anhelo
And like fuel, she fills me with longing
De besos sin promesa y sentencias sin leyes
Of kisses without promises and sentences without laws
Esta mujer propone un pacto que selle
This woman proposes a pact that seals
La tierra con el viento, la luz con la sombra
The earth with the wind, the light with the shadow
Invoca los misterios del tiempo y me nombra
She invokes the mysteries of time and speaks my name
Esta mujer propone que salte y me estrelle
This woman proposes that I leap and crash
Sólo para verle
Just to see him
Sólo para amarle
Just to love him
Sólo para serle
Just to be there for him
Sólo y no olvidarle
Just and not forget him
Con diez años de menos no habría esperado
With ten years less, I wouldn't have waited
Por sus proposiciones yo hubiera corrido
For his propositions, I would have run
Como una fiera al lecho en que nos conocimos
Like a wild beast to the bed where we first met
Impúdico y sangriento, divino y alado
Impudent and bloody, divine and winged
Con diez años de menos habría blasfemado
With ten years less, I would have blasphemed
Con savia de su cuerpo quemaría los templos
With the sap from his body, I would burn down the temples
Para que los cobardes tomaran ejemplo
So that the cowards would take note
Con diez años de menos hubiera matado
With ten years less, I would have killed
Sólo para verle
Just to see him
Sólo para amarle
Just to love him
Sólo para serle
Just to be with him
Sólo y no olvidarle
Just and not forget him
Sólo para verle
Just to see him
Sólo para amarle
Just to love him
Sólo para serle
Just to be with him
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Key vocabulary
- ocasional
- occasionalC1
- mordaza
- muzzle
- etiqueta
- tagB2
- convierto
- convert
- haberte
- to have you
- sacar
- take outB1
- agua
- waterA1
- alevosía
- treachery
- esta
- isA1
- propone
- proposes
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.