
Silvio Rodríguez
De la ausencia y de ti, Velia lyrics with English translation
- Language
- Spanish
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 1969
- Length
- 4:12
Ahora solo me queda buscarme de amante la respiración
Now all I have left is to find my breath as a lover
No mirar a los mapas, seguir en mí mismo
Not looking at the maps, but continuing within myself
No andar ciertas calles
Not walking certain streets
Olvidar que fue mío una vez cierto libro
Forgetting that a certain book was once mine
O hacer la canción
Or making the song
Y decirte que todo está igual
And telling you that everything is the same
La ciudad, los amigos y el mar
The city, the friends, and the sea
Esperando por ti, esperando por ti
Waiting for you, waiting for you
Sigo yendo a Teté, semana tras semana
I keep going to Teté, week after week
¿Te acuerdas de allá?
Do you remember from back there?
Hoy hablo de fusiles despidiendo muertos
Today I speak of rifles bidding farewell to the dead
Yo sé que ella me ama
I know that she loves me
Es por eso, tal vez, que te siento en su sala
It's perhaps why I feel you in her room
Aunque ahora no estás
Even though you're not here now
Y se siente en la conversación
And it’s felt in the conversation
O será que llegó la impresión
Or maybe the impression has come
De la ausencia y de ti
Of your absence and of you
De la ausencia y de ti
Of your absence and of you
No quisiera un fracaso en el sabio delito que es recordar
I wouldn't want a failure in the wise crime that is remembering
Ni en el inevitable defecto que es
Nor in the inevitable flaw that is
La nostalgia de cosas pequeñas y tontas
The nostalgia for small and silly things
Como en el tumulto, pisarte los pies
Like in the crowd, stepping on your feet
Y reír y reír y reír
And laughing and laughing and laughing
Madrugadas sin ir a dormir
Mornings without going to sleep
Sí, es distinto sin ti
Yes, it's different without you
Muy distinto sin ti
Very different without you
Las ideas son balas hoy día
Ideas are bullets these days
Y no puedo usar flores por ti
And I can't wear flowers for you
Hoy quisiera ser viejo y muy sabio
Today I wish I were old and very wise
Y poderte decir lo que aquí no he podido decirte
And could tell you what I haven't been able to say here
Hablar como un árbol
To speak like a tree
Con mi sombra hacia ti
With my shadow towards you
Como un libro salvado del mar
Like a book saved from the sea
Como un muerto que aprende a besar
Like a dead man learning to kiss
Para ti, para ti
For you, for you
Para ti, para ti
For you, for you
Lyrics powered by www.musixmatch.com
Key vocabulary
- buscarme
- look for me
- mí
- meA2
- fue
- wasB1
- yendo
- goingB1
- teté
- nanny
- hablo
- speakB2
- despidiendo
- saying goodbye
- aunque
- althoughB1
- siente
- feels
- recordar
- rememberB1
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.