Silvio Rodríguez
La maza lyrics with English translation
- Language
- Spanish
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 1982
- Length
- 5:49
Si no creyera en la locura
If I didn't believe in madness
De la garganta del sinsonte
From the throat of the mockingbird
Si no creyera que en el monte
If I didn't believe that in the mountain
Se esconde el trino y la pavura
The trill and the fright are hidden
Si no creyera en la balanza
If I didn't believe in the balance
En la razón del equilibrio
In the reason of equilibrium
Si no creyera en el delirio
If I didn't believe in delirium
Si no creyera en la esperanza
If I didn't believe in hope
Si no creyera en lo que agencio
If I didn't believe in what I promote
Si no creyera en mi camino
If I didn't believe in my path
Si no creyera en mi sonido
If I didn't believe in my sound
Si no creyera en mi silencio
If I didn't believe in my silence
¿Qué cosa fuera?
What would it be?
¿Qué cosa fuera la maza sin cantera?
What would the mallet be without its stone?
Un amasijo hecho de cuerdas y tendones
A mixture made of strings and tendons
Un revoltijo de carne con madera
A jumble of flesh with wood
Un instrumento sin mejores resplandores
An instrument without greater gleams
Que lucecitas montadas para escena
Like little lights set up for the show
¿Qué cosa fuera, corazón, qué cosa fuera?
What would it be, my heart, what would it be?
¿Qué cosa fuera la maza sin cantera?
What would the mallet be without its stone?
Un testaferro del traidor de los aplausos
A frontman for the traitor of applause
Un servidor de pasado en copa nueva
A servant with a past in a new cup
Un eternizador de dioses del ocaso
An eternalizer of gods at dusk
Júbilo hervido con trapo y lentejuela
Boiled jubilation with cloth and sequins
¿Qué cosa fuera, corazón, que cosa fuera?
What would it be, my heart, what would it be?
¿Qué cosa fuera la maza sin cantera?
What would the hammer be without a quarry?
¿Qué cosa fuera, corazón, que cosa fuera?
What would it be, my heart, what would it be?
¿Qué cosa fuera la maza sin cantera?
What would the hammer be without a quarry?
Si no creyera en lo más duro
If I didn't believe in the hardest
Si no creyera en el deseo
If I didn't believe in desire
Si no creyera en lo que creo
If I didn't believe in what I believe
Si no creyera en algo puro
If I didn't believe in something pure
Si no creyera en cada herida
If I didn't believe in every wound
Si no creyera en la que ronde
If I didn't believe in the one who roams
Si no creyera en lo que esconde
If I didn't believe in what it hides
Hacerse hermano de la vida
To become a brother to life
Si no creyera en quien me escucha
If I didn't believe in the one who listens to me
Si no creyera en lo que duele
If I didn't believe in what hurts
Si no creyera en lo que quede
If I didn't believe in what remains
Si no creyera en lo que lucha
If I didn't believe in what fights
¿Qué cosa fuera?
What would it be?
¿Qué cosa fuera la maza sin cantera?
What would the mallet be without its quarry?
Un amasijo hecho de cuerdas y tendones
A jumble made of strings and tendons
Un revoltijo de carne con madera
A mishmash of flesh and wood
Un instrumento sin mejores resplandores
An instrument without finer glimmers
Que lucecitas montadas para escena
Like little lights set for a scene
¿Qué cosa fuera, corazón, qué cosa fuera?
What would it be, my heart, what would it be?
¿Qué cosa fuera la maza sin cantera?
What would the mallet be without its quarry?
Un testaferro del traidor de los aplausos
A frontman for the traitor of applause
Un servidor de pasado en copa nueva
A servant of the past in a new cup
¿Qué cosa fuera, corazón, qué cosa fuera?
What thing would it be, my heart, what thing would it be?
¿Qué cosa fuera la maza sin cantera?
What thing would the hammer be without the quarry?
Un eternizador de dioses del ocaso
An eternalizer of sunset gods
Júbilo hervido con trapo y lentejuela
Joy boiled with cloth and sequins
¿Qué cosa fuera, corazón, que cosa fuera?
What thing would it be, my heart, what thing would it be?
¿Qué cosa fuera la maza sin cantera?
What thing would the hammer be without the quarry?
¿Qué cosa fuera, corazón, que cosa fuera?
What thing would it be, my heart, what thing would it be?
¿Qué cosa fuera la maza sin cantera?
What thing would the hammer be without the quarry?
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Key vocabulary
- pasado
- pastA1
- delirio
- delusionC2
- hecho
- doneA2
- balanza
- scaleB1
- esperanza
- hopeC2
- agencio
- agency
- cosa
- thingA1
- fuera
- outsideA2
- maza
- clubC1
- cantera
- quarry
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.