Silvio Rodríguez
El tren blindado lyrics with English translation
- Language
- Spanish
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 1984
- Length
- 3:45
En la ciudad que posee la isla en el centro
In the city that holds the island in the center
Hay un tren descarrilado, museo nacional
There's a derailed train, national museum
Que los amantes fecundan con savia del cuerpo
That lovers fertilize with the sap of the body
Viva ese hierro vencido por la claridad
Long live that iron defeated by clarity
Viva ese hierro vencido por la claridad
Long live that iron defeated by clarity
Viva ese lecho de amor
Long live that bed of love
Gentes que merecen el amor
People who deserve love
Pagarán, pagarán por todo
They will pay, they will pay for everything
Porque el que merece suele ser
Because the one who deserves usually is
El que suele tener, deber
The one who usually has, a duty
Bienaventurado ha de ser
Blessed shall be
El que siembra para los otros
The one who sows for others
El que en la semilla dejará
The one who in the seed will leave
Un girón de su propio ser
A shred of their own being
El tren blindado florece su estampa de hierro
The armored train blooms its iron stamp
Desde que aquella guerrilla le molió la cien
Since that guerrilla crushed his mind
Descarrilado por un manotazo del pueblo
Derailed by a blow from the people
Para que un hombre se viera con una mujer
So that a man could meet a woman
Para que un hombre se viera con una mujer
So that a man could meet a woman
Viva ese lecho de amor
Long live that love bed
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Key vocabulary
- ciudad
- cityA1
- gentes
- peopleA1
- hay
- there isA1
- hombre
- manA1
- mujer
- womanA1
- museo
- museumA1
- propio
- ownA1
- pueblo
- townA1
- todo
- everythingA1
- tren
- trainA1
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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.