Silvio Rodríguez
El pintor de las mujeres soles lyrics with English translation
- Language
- Spanish
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 1986
- Length
- 2:20
El pintor de las mujeres soles
The painter of the sun women
Abandonado
Abandoned
En su empecinada claridad
In his stubborn clarity
Hizo su último viaje ya muy solo
He made his last journey all alone
Sobre el Atlántico
Across the Atlantic
Y fue sepultado cuando llegó
And he was buried when he arrived
El pintor brilloso como la Luna
The painter shining like the Moon
Con su pelo largo
With his long hair
Con su barba culta de polvo
With his cultured beard of dust
Escupió al cangrejo desde un dibujo
He spat at the crab from a drawing
Y le puso fecha
And she set a date
A su despedida
For her farewell
Y siguió queriendo
And she kept on loving
Aunque no fue amado quizás
Even if she wasn't loved, perhaps
Ni como ser humano
Not even as a human being
Y siguió aprendiendo
And she kept on learning
El camino de la soledad en todo momento
The path of loneliness at every moment
Y se fue entre ceras alucinantes
And she left among dizzying waxes
Con su pelo largo
With her long hair
Con su barba culta de polvo
With her scholarly beard of dust
Descargando gritos sobre las armas
Downloading screams over the weapons
Mientras los beatos
While the pious
Se persignaban
Crossed themselves
Y él no tuvo iglesias
And he had no churches
Pero algo de altares al amor
But something of altars to love
Hubo entre sus lienzos
There was among his canvases
Y en la fantasía
And in the fantasy
Iba platicando su viaje hacia el universo
He was chatting about his journey to the universe
El pintor de las enredaderas de luz
The painter of the vines of light
Escribió sus últimos signos
Wrote his final signs
Con triste desesperación
With sad desperation
Y dejó sus restos a los amigos
And left his remains to the friends
Y dejó sus restos a los amigos
And left his remains to the friends
Pidiéndoles solo paredes para sostenerlos
Asking them only for walls to hold them
Pidiéndoles solo paredes para sostenerlos
Asking them only for walls to hold them
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Key vocabulary
- pintor
- painterA2
- mujeres
- womenA1
- abandonado
- abandoned
- empecinada
- stubborn
- claridad
- clarityB2
- hizo
- didB1
- todo
- everythingA1
- algo
- somethingA2
- cangrejo
- crabA2
- desde
- fromA2
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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.