Silvio Rodríguez
Mi lecho está tendido lyrics with English translation
- Language
- Spanish
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 1984
- Length
- 2:37
Mi lecho está tendido
My bed is made
Me has hecho un gran favor
You've done me a great favor
Pero en el sitio en que estaba dormido
But in the place where I was asleep
No encontré mi corazón
I couldn't find my heart
¿Dónde me lo guardaste?
Where did you keep it?
¿Qué has hecho al fin con él?
What have you finally done with it?
Hiciste tu labor y te marchaste
You did your part and then you left
Y ahora ya no sé querer
And now I no longer know how to love
No quiero tal favor
I don't want such a favor
Deja en su lugar a ese corazón
Leave that heart in its place
Deja a mi viejo en su escondite
Leave my old man in his hiding place
Puede que aún lo necesite
He might still need it
No lo despojes de su amparo
Don't strip him of his shelter
Vaya favor para ser caro
What a favor to be so costly
Hoy me tendiste el lecho
Today you laid down the bed for me
Para después volar
Just to fly away afterward
Hoy te llevaste el mundo de mi pecho
Today you took the world from my chest
Hoy la aurora es soledad
Today the dawn is loneliness
Hoy te llevaste el mundo de mi pecho
Today you took the world from my chest
Hoy la aurora es soledad
Today the dawn is loneliness
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Key vocabulary
- lecho
- bedA2
- está
- isA1
- tendido
- spreadC2
- has
- haveA2
- hecho
- doneA2
- gran
- greatB1
- sitio
- placeB1
- estaba
- wasB1
- dormido
- asleepA2
- encontré
- foundB1
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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.