Silvio Rodríguez
Hacia el porvenir lyrics with English translation
- Language
- Spanish
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 1996
- Length
- 2:16
Hacia el porvenir partieron sombras
Towards the future, shadows set out
Rumbo a mañana algo de oscuridad
Heading to tomorrow, a bit of darkness
Fue a sobrevivir
It went to survive
Porque el sol de hoy
Because today’s sun
No pudo más
Couldn’t handle it anymore
No estarán completas las auroras
The dawns won’t be complete
Quejas de mí, lucirá la claridad
Complaints from me, the clarity will shine
Porque lo que yo tanto pretendí
Because what I longed for so much
Demorará
Will take its time
Por más que quise bendecirme
No matter how much I wanted to bless myself
Y más purificarme
And to purify myself even more
Yo era carne
I was flesh
Yo era yo
I was me
Lo que con amor hacía una mano
What was done with love by one hand
Lo rompía con otra el desamor
Was broken by the other with heartbreak
Yo no creo que haya sido en vano
I don't believe it was in vain
Pero pudo ser mucho mejor
But it could have been so much better
Hacia el porvenir partieron sombras
To the future, shadows departed
Cuando no alcance, solo podré alertar
When I can't reach, all I can do is warn
Si alguien me oye allí
If someone hears me there
No se olvide pues
Don't forget then
De iluminar
To shine
De iluminar
To shine
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Key vocabulary
- alcance
- rangeC1
- partieron
- left
- algo
- somethingA2
- fue
- wasB1
- mí
- meA2
- lucirá
- will shine
- pretendí
- I intended
- demorará
- will delay
- quise
- I wanted
- bendecirme
- to bless me
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.