Silvio Rodríguez
La tonada inasible lyrics with English translation
- Language
- Spanish
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 1998
- Length
- 4:06
Hace quince segundos
Fifteen seconds ago
Que se murió el poeta
The poet died
Y hace quince siglos
And fifteen centuries ago
Que notamos su ausencia
We felt his absence
Creíamos entonces
We thought back then
Que estábamos de vuelta
That we were coming back
Cuando faltaba tanto
When so much was missing
De ausencia y de poeta
Of absence and of poet
De ausencia y de poeta
Of absence and of poet
Hace quince milenios
Fifteen millennia ago
Se nos fugó el poeta
The poet slipped away from us
Dejándonos sus viudas
Leaving us his widows
Y su niñita eterna
And his eternal little girl
Brindemos por su verbo
Let's toast to his words
Por su roja cabeza
To his fiery head
Hermanos de la sangre
Brothers of the blood
Vertida del poeta
Spilled from the poet
Vertida del poeta
Spilled from the poet
Por él sus adversarios
For him, his adversaries
No olvidan, mas celebran
Do not forget, but celebrate
Y por él sus amigos
And for him, his friends
Como quiera que hoy sean
However it may be today
Se juntan nuevamente
They gather once again
Por sobre sus miserias
Above their miseries
Convocando a este muerto
Calling on this dead one
De la salud perfecta
Of perfect health
De la salud perfecta
Of perfect health
Hace quince silencios
Fifteen silences ago
Y otras muchas tristezas
And many other sorrows
Quién sabe qué diría
Who knows what he would say
Su voz de inteligencia
Her voice of intelligence
Por eso un cisne canta
That's why a swan sings
Prófugo en la floresta
Fugitive in the forest
La tonada inasible
The elusive tune
Que despertó el poeta
That awakened the poet
Que despertó el poeta
That awakened the poet
La tonada inasible
The elusive tune
Que despertó el poeta
That awakened the poet
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Key vocabulary
- milenios
- millenniaB1
- quince
- fifteenA1
- poeta
- poetB1
- notamos
- we notice
- ausencia
- absenceB2
- creíamos
- we believed
- estábamos
- we wereB2
- cuando
- whenB1
- faltaba
- lacked
- fugó
- fled
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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.