
Silvio Rodríguez
Leyenda lyrics with English translation
- Language
- Spanish
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 1984
- Length
- 3:14
Al amanecer
At dawn
Algunos ojos ya eran de la oscuridad
Some eyes were already of the darkness
Y huyeron hacia las tinieblas del ayer
And they fled into the shadows of yesterday
Con un puñado de semillas por sembrar
With a handful of seeds yet to sow
Con un puñado de promesas por crecer
With a handful of promises yet to grow
Y amar
And to love
Pero salió el sol
But the sun came out
Y se elevó sobre la tierra, siempre más
And rose above the earth, evermore
Secando el frío nocturnal, dando calor
Drying the nocturnal cold, giving warmth
Regocijando al mundo con su prodigar
Rejoicing the world with its bounty
Irguiendo al viento un poderoso corazón
Uplifting against the wind a powerful heart
De amar
Of love
Y su luz subió
And its light rose
Saltando las montañas, traspasando el mar
Jumping over mountains, crossing the sea
Regando el mundo con su cálida verdad
Watering the world with its warm truth
Su cálida razón
Its warm reason
Esparciendo la claridad
Scattering the clarity
Como una estación
Like a season
Era bello el sol
The sun was beautiful
Que se elevaba sobre el mundo, siempre más
That rose above the world, ever more
Con su destierro de nevadas, su canción
With its exile of snows, its song
Su semillero en jubiloso despertar
Its nursery in joyous awakening
Erguido al viento el poderoso corazón
Upright to the wind, the mighty heart
De amar
Of love
Y su luz llegó
And its light arrived
Al reino oscuro a las torres del ayer
To the dark kingdom, to the towers of yesterday
Y la simiente arrebatada de su amor
And the seed taken from its love
Sintiose renacer
Felt itself anew
Al contacto de su calor
At the touch of its warmth
Y de su quehacer
And of its endeavors
Luego al final
Then in the end
A la hora en que se suponía atardecer
At the hour when sunset was supposed to happen
Sintieron que la luz quedó en su respirar
They felt that the light stayed in their breath
Como una sangre de la atmósfera, un poder
Like a blood of the atmosphere, a power
Un pacto eterno con la claridad solar
An eternal pact with the solar clarity
Con la claridad solar
With the solar clarity
Con sed
With thirst
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Key vocabulary
- contacto
- contactA1
- promesas
- promisesB2
- sembrar
- sowB2
- semillas
- seedsB2
- estación
- stationA1
- hora
- hourA1
- montañas
- mountainsA1
- oscuro
- darkA1
- razón
- reasonA1
- ojos
- eyesA1
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.