
Silvio Rodríguez
Reino de todavía lyrics with English translation
- Language
- Spanish
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 1996
- Length
- 6:43
Viene girando un ángulo planetario
A planetary angle comes spinning
Golpeando las paredes del infinito
Beating against the walls of the infinite
Descascarando el nácar del inventario
Peeling the nacre of the inventory
Violentando el remanso de lo prescrito
Violating the stillness of the prescribed
Ciertas presiones altas vienen girando
Certain high pressures come swirling
En los celajes, arremolinaciones
In the skies, whirling formations
Travesuras del tiempo traspapelando
Mischiefs of time misplacing
Vienen antecedentes de los ciclones
There are warnings of the cyclones
Lloran viejos obscenos, moralizantes
Old obscene ones weep, moralizing
Almas crucificadas en los cincuenta
Crucified souls in the fifties
Con las lenguas sumidas en anhelantes
With tongues immersed in yearning
Saliveos al sexo de los noventa
I salivate for the sex of the nineties
Lloran niños dormidos, bien arropados
Sleeping children cry, all tucked in tight
En la eterna ilusión de salir mejores
In the eternal illusion of becoming better
Pero nadie se salva del pie forzado
But no one escapes the forced march
Hay que crecer bailando con sinsabores
We must grow dancing with bittersweetness
Balseros, navidades, absolutismo
Raft people, Christmases, absolutism
Bautizos, testamentos, odio y ternura
Baptisms, testaments, hatred and tenderness
Nadie sabe qué cosa es el comunismo
No one knows what communism really is
Y eso puede ser pasto de la censura
And that could become fodder for censorship
Nadie sabe qué cosa es el comunismo
Nobody knows what communism really is
Y eso puede ser pasto de la ventura
And that can be fodder for fortune
De entre todo lo triste y lo perdido
Amidst all the sadness and the lost
Se aproximan girando las estrellitas
The little stars come spinning closer
Nadie las ve avanzando por sobre el ruido
No one sees them moving through the noise
De las tiendas legales y las proscritas
Of the legal shops and the banned ones
El sistema invisible tendrá su precio
The invisible system will have its price
Su frontera y tamaño, su analogía
Its border and size, its analogy
Dios le llaman algunos, otros Comercio
Some call it God, others call it Commerce
Mas para mí es el Reino de Todavía
But for me, it's the Kingdom of Yet
Balseros, navidades, absolutismo
Raft people, Christmas, absolutism
Bautizos, testamentos, odio y ternura
Baptisms, wills, hatred and tenderness
Nadie sabe qué cosa es el comunismo
No one knows what communism really is
Y eso puede ser pasto de la censura
And that could be fodder for censorship
Nadie sabe qué cosa es el comunismo
No one knows what communism really is
Y eso puede ser pasto de la ventura
And that could be fodder for good fortune
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Key vocabulary
- cincuenta
- fiftyB1
- legales
- legalB1
- lenguas
- tonguesA1
- sexo
- sexA1
- planetario
- planetariumB2
- nácar
- nacreC1
- altas
- highB1
- antecedentes
- backgroundC1
- ciclones
- cyclones
- lloran
- cry
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.