Silvio Rodríguez
El día feliz que está llegando lyrics with English translation
- Language
- Spanish
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 1979
- Length
- 3:54
Se está arrimando un día feliz
A happy day is drawing near
Como hace un barco tras sus meses
Like a ship after its months
Se está acercando un día de abril
A day in April is coming close
Un día de abril se va a arrimar
An April day is going to draw near
A los finales de noviembre
At the end of November
Y yo me apego más al mar
And I cling more to the sea
Me hermano doble de los peces
My double brother of the fish
Yo enciendo leña en el hogar
I light wood in the hearth
Que vio brillar la tempestad
That saw the storm shine
Que guía el curso de estos meses
That guides the course of these months
Se está arrimando un día de sol
A sunny day is drawing near
Un día de duendes en añejo
A day of elves in the old ways
Se acerca un pájaro feroz
A fierce bird is approaching
Zumbando al goce de tu olor
Buzzing with the joy of your scent
Se acerca un tiempo de conejos
A time of rabbits is coming close
Y a mí me escarba la ansiedad
And anxiety digs at me
Me escarba hondo, acá, en lo blando
It digs deep, right here, in the soft
Me escarba simple, de escarbar
It digs simply, just digging
Como para que se hunda más
As if to make it sink even more
El día feliz que está llegando
The happy day that is coming
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Key vocabulary
- acerca
- aboutB2
- duendes
- elvesB2
- feroz
- ferociousB2
- meses
- monthsA1
- sus
- his/herA1
- arrimando
- moving closer
- feliz
- happyA2
- como
- as; like; howB1
- hace
- doesA2
- tras
- behindB2
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.