
Silvio Rodríguez
El necio lyrics with English translation
- Language
- Spanish
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 1992
- Length
- 4:34
Para no hacer de mi ícono pedazos
So I don't break my icon into pieces
Para salvarme entre únicos e impares
To save me among the unique and the odd
Para cederme lugar en su parnaso
To give me a place in their Parnassus
Para darme un rinconcito en sus altares
To grant me a little corner in their altars
Me vienen a convidar a arrepentirme
They come to invite me to regret
Me vienen a convidar a que no pierda
They come to invite me not to lose
Me vienen a convidar a indefinirme
They come to invite me to be undefined
Me vienen a convidar a tanta mierda
They come to invite me to so much crap
Yo no sé lo que es el destino
I don't know what destiny is
Caminando fui lo que fui
Walking, I was what I was
Allá Dios que será divino
There God will be divine
Yo me muero como viví
I die just as I lived
Yo me muero como viví
I die just as I lived
Yo me muero como viví
I die just as I lived
Yo quiero seguir jugando a lo perdido
I want to keep playing the lost game
Yo quiero ser a la zurda más que diestro
I want to be more left-handed than right-handed
Yo quiero hacer un congreso del unido
I want to hold a congress of the united
Yo quiero rezar a fondo un "hijo nuestro"
I want to pray deeply an 'Our Father'
Dirán que paso de moda la locura
They will say madness is out of style
Dirán que la gente es mala y no merece
They will say people are bad and don't deserve
Mas, yo partiré soñando travesuras
But I will leave dreaming of mischief
Acaso multiplicar panes y peces
Maybe multiplying loaves and fish
Yo no sé lo que es el destino
I don't know what fate is
Caminando fui lo que fui
Walking, I was who I was
Allá Dios, que será divino
There, God, what will be will be divine
Yo me muero como viví
I die as I lived
Yo me muero como viví
I die as I lived
Yo me muero como viví
I die as I lived
Yo me muero como viví, como viví
I die as I lived, as I lived
Yo me muero como viví, como viví
I die as I lived, as I lived
Yo me muero como viví
I die just like I lived
Dicen que me arrastraran por sobre rocas
They say they'll drag me over rocks
Cuando la revolución se venga abajo
When the revolution comes crashing down
Que machacarán mis manos y mi boca
That they'll crush my hands and my mouth
Que me arrancarán los ojos y el badajo
That they'll tear out my eyes and my clapper
Será que la necedad parió conmigo
Could it be that stubbornness was born with me
La necedad de lo que hoy resulta necio
The stubbornness of what today seems foolish
La necedad de asumir al enemigo
The stubbornness of facing the enemy
La necedad de vivir sin tener precio
The stubbornness of living without a price
Yo no sé lo que es el destino
I don’t know what destiny is
Caminando fui lo que fui
Walking, I became what I was
Allá Dios que será divino
Up there, God, what will be, will be divine
Yo me muero como viví
I die as I lived
Yo me muero como viví
I die as I lived
Yo me muero como viví
I die as I lived
Yo me muero como viví
I die as I lived
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Key vocabulary
- como
- likeB1
- abajo
- downA1
- allá
- thereA1
- altares
- altarsC1
- boca
- mouthA2
- ícono
- iconC1
- salvarme
- save me
- cederme
- yield
- parnaso
- Parnassus
- rinconcito
- corner
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.