Silvio Rodríguez
Me acosa el carapálida lyrics with English translation
- Language
- Spanish
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 1984
- Length
- 4:42
Me acosa el carapálida que carga sobre mí
The pale-faced one haunts me that carries over me
Sobre mi pueblo libre, sobre mi día feliz
Over my free town, over my happy day
Me acosa con la espuela, el sable y el arnés
It haunts me with the spur, the saber, and the harness
Caballería asesina de antes y después
Murderous cavalry from before and after
Me acosa el carapálida norteño por el sur
The pale-faced one haunts me from the north in the south
El este y el oeste, por cada latitud
The east and the west, through every latitude
Me acosa el carapálida que ha dividido el sol
The pale-faced one haunts me that has divided the sun
En hora de metralla y hora de dolor
In times of shrapnel and times of pain
La tierra me quiere arrebatar
The land wants to snatch me away
El agua me quiere arrebatar
The water wants to snatch me away
El aire me quiere arrebatar
The air wants to snatch me away
Y solo fuego, y solo fuego voy a dar
And only fire, and only fire, I will give
Yo soy mi tierra
I am my land
Mi agua
My water
Mi aire
My air
Mi fuego
My fire
Me acosa el carapálida con el engaño vil
The pale one stalks me with vile deceit
Con cuentas de colores, con trueque de uno a mil
With beads of colors, with exchange from one to a thousand
Me acosa con su elixir de la prostitución
It stalks me with its elixir of prostitution
Me acosa con la gloria perdida de su Dios
It stalks me with the lost glory of its God
Me acosa el carapálida con su forma de ver
The pale face haunts me with his way of seeing
Su estética, su ángulo, su estilo, su saber
His aesthetic, his angle, his style, his wisdom
Me acosa el carapálida con sintetización
The pale face haunts me with synthesis
Y quiere ungirme el alma con tuercas de robot
And wants to anoint my soul with robot nuts
La tierra me quiere arrebatar
The earth wants to snatch me away
El agua me quiere arrebatar
The water wants to snatch me away
El aire me quiere arrebatar
The air wants to snatch me away
Y solo fuego, y solo fuego voy a dar
And only fire, and only fire I will give
Yo soy mi tierra
I am my land
Mi agua
My water
Mi aire
My air
Mi fuego
My fire
Me acosa el carapálida con la guerra sutil
The pale one stalks me with a subtle war
Hasta que digo basta y carga sobre mí
Until I say enough and it charges at me
Me acosa con su monstruo de radiactividad
It stalks me with its monster of radioactivity
Su porvenir de arena, su muerte colosal
Its future of sand, its colossal death
Me acosa el carapálida que siempre me acosó
The pale one haunts me that always haunted me
Que acosa a mis hermanos, que acosa mi razón
That stalks my brothers, that stalks my reason
Me acosa el carapálida que vive de acosar
The pale one haunts me who lives to haunt
Hasta que todos juntos le demos su lugar
Until we all together give it its place
La tierra me quiere arrebatar
The earth wants to snatch me away
El agua me quiere arrebatar
The water wants to snatch me away
El aire me quiere arrebatar
The air wants to snatch me away
Y solo fuego, y solo fuego voy a dar
And only fire, and only fire will I give
La tierra me quiere arrebatar
The earth wants to snatch me away
El agua me quiere arrebatar
The water wants to snatch me away
El aire me quiere arrebatar
The air wants to snatch me away
Y solo fuego, y solo fuego voy a dar
And only fire, and only fire will I give
Yo soy mi tierra
I am my land
Mi agua
My water
Mi aire
My air
Mi fuego
My fire
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Key vocabulary
- acosa
- harasses
- carapálida
- pale skin
- mí
- meA2
- libre
- freeA2
- feliz
- happyA2
- espuela
- spur
- sable
- sand
- arnés
- harnessC2
- caballería
- cavalry
- arrebatar
- snatchB2
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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.