Silvio Rodríguez
El vagabundo lyrics with English translation
- Language
- Spanish
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 1984
- Length
- 3:25
Conozco un vagabundo del espacio
I know a space wanderer
Recorre el universo en su asteroide
He roams the universe on his asteroid
Sin órbita, ni puerto, ni partida
With no orbit, no port, and no departure
Tapa la soledad con todo el frío de su vida
He covers his loneliness with all the cold of his life
Un día llegó un pájaro a su isla
One day a bird arrived at his island
Dentro de un pomo que cabía en su mano
Inside a bottle that fit in his hand
Daba tristeza verlo allí encogido
It was sad to see him curled up there
Cantándole al silencio sin respuesta, sin sentido
Singing to the silence, unanswered, meaningless
El vagabundo nunca oyó a su pájaro
The wanderer never heard his bird
Y lo veía cantar tras los cristales
And he watched it sing through the glass
Hasta que un día pudo más su sueño
Until one day his dream became stronger
Y lo libró de la escafandra blanca de animales
And freed him from the white dive suit of animals
El pájaro flotó hasta congelarse
The bird floated until it froze
Como las lágrimas del vagabundo
Like the tears of the wanderer
Entonces metió al pájaro en la jaula
Then he put the bird in the cage
Y lo soltó a la suerte con que vino
And released it to the fate with which it came
Sin comprender jamás lo sucedido
Without ever understanding what happened
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Key vocabulary
- conozco
- knowA1
- vagabundo
- vagabondA2
- espacio
- spaceB1
- recorre
- traverse
- universo
- universeB1
- asteroide
- asteroid
- órbita
- orbitC1
- tapa
- lidA2
- frío
- coldA1
- isla
- islandA2
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.