Silvio Rodríguez
La cosa está en... lyrics with English translation
- Language
- Spanish
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 1998
- Length
- 2:50
La cosa está en hallarlo a usted
The thing is to find you
El día menos pensado, en cualquier sitio
One of these days, anywhere
Casualmente, donde usted y yo
By chance, where you and I
Podamos ver a cuatro manos los alrededores
Can see the surroundings with four hands
La cosa está en lo improbable
The thing is in the improbable
En lo difícil, en lo imposible
In the difficult, in the impossible
La cosa está allí mismo, donde no debiera estar
The thing is right there, where it shouldn't be
Un paso más allá
One step beyond
Que el largo de las manos
That the length of the hands
La cosa está en que un día
The thing is that one day
Haya tiempo para todo
There should be time for everything
Para hablarnos sin apuros
To talk to each other without rush
Para compartir rocíos
To share dewdrops
Para ser fin de semana
To be like a weekend
Como si vivir
As if living
Fuera tiempo libre, espacio para estar
Were free time, space to be
La cosa está en las cosas
It's all about the little things
Que yo sé y que usted no sabe
That I know and you don't know
Y en las cosas que usted sabe
And in the things that you know
Y yo no sé todavía
And I don't know yet
Y en los sueños que nos faltan
And in the dreams that we lack
Para realizar
To be fulfilled
Nuestros sueños, que son sueños de canción
Our dreams, which are dreams of song
La cosa está en no enloquecer
The thing is to not go crazy
En no aceptar, en preguntar
To not accept, to ask
Para qué sirven todos los juguetes
What are all the toys for
Que nos han dado guerra
That have given us trouble
Desarmándolos y armándolos
Disassembling them and reassembling them
La cosa está en que no
The thing is that there's no
Queda remedio inteligente
Clever remedy left
Que no sea usar las piezas
Not using the pieces
Que hay en los rompe caminos
That are in the roadbreakers
E ir tirando por ahora, aunque más allá
And just getting by for now, even though beyond
Persistamos en crear nuestra canción
We persist in creating our song
Con las piezas que queramos construir
With the pieces we want to build
Que serán igual
That will be the same
Que serán igual
That will be the same
Que serán igual
That will be the same
Que serán igual
That will be the same
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Key vocabulary
- queda
- staysB2
- tirando
- throwingB2
- nuestra
- ourA2
- pensado
- thoughtB2
- cualquier
- anyB1
- debiera
- should
- estar
- beA2
- paso
- stepB1
- hablarnos
- speak to us
- fuera
- outsideA2
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.