Silvio Rodríguez
Santiago de Chile lyrics with English translation
- Language
- Spanish
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 1975
- Length
- 4:23
Alli amé a una mujer terrible
There I loved a fierce woman
Llorando por el humo siempre eterno
Crying for the smoke that's always eternal
De aquella ciudad acorralada por simbolos de invierno
From that city cornered by symbols of winter
Alli aprendí a quitar con piel el frio
There I learned to strip the cold with my skin
Y echar luego mi cuerpo a la llovisna
And then throw my body into the drizzle
En manos de la niebla dura y blanca en calles del enigma
In the hands of the hard, white fog on streets of mystery
Eso no está muerto
That is not dead
No me lo mataron
They didn't kill it for me
Ni con la distancia
Not with the distance
Ni con el vil soldado
Nor with the vile soldier
Eso no está muerto
That is not dead
No me lo mataron
They didn't kill me
Ni con la distancia
Not even with the distance
Ni con el vil soldado
Not even with the vile soldier
Allí entre los cerros tuve amigos
There among the hills I had friends
Que entre bombas de humo eran hermanos
Who were brothers among smoke bombs
Allí no tuve más de cuatro cosas que siempre he deseado
There I had no more than four things I have always desired
Allí nuestra canción se hizo pequeña
There our song became small
Entre la multitud desesperada
Among the desperate crowd
Un poderoso canto de la tierra era quien más cantaba
A powerful song of the earth was the one that sang the loudest
Eso no está muerto
That is not dead
No me lo mataron
They didn't kill me
Ni con la distancia
Not even with the distance
Ni con el vil soldado
Not even with the vile soldier
Eso no está muerto
That is not dead
No me lo mataron
They didn't kill me
Ni con la distancia
Not even with the distance
Ni con el vil soldado
Not even with the vile soldier
Hasta allí me sigió como una sombra
There it followed me like a shadow
El rostro del que ya no se veía
The face of the one I could no longer see
Y en el oído me susurro la muerte del que ya aparecería
And in my ear, death whispered the one who would soon appear
Allí yo tuve un odio una vergüenza
There I held onto hatred, a shame
Niños y mendigos de la madrugada
Children and beggars of the dawn
Y el deseo de cambiar cada cuerda por un saco de balas
And the desire to exchange each string for a sack of bullets
Eso no está muerto
That is not dead
No me lo mataron
They did not kill it
Ni con la distancia
Not even with distance
Ni con el vil soldado
Not even with the vile soldier
Eso no está muerto
That is not dead
No me lo mataron
They did not kill it
Ni con la distancia
Not even with the distance
Ni con el vil soldado
Not even with the vile soldier
Eso no está muerto
That is not dead
No me lo mataron
They didn't kill it for me
Ni con la distancia
Not even with the distance
Ni con el vil soldado
Not even with the vile soldier
Eso no está muerto
That is not dead
No me lo mataron
They didn't kill it for me
Ni con la distancia
Not even with the distance
Ni con el vil soldado
Not even with the vile soldier
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Key vocabulary
- nuestra
- ourA2
- eterno
- eternalC1
- susurro
- whisperC1
- allí
- thereA1
- amigos
- friendsA1
- calles
- streetsA1
- canción
- songA1
- ciudad
- cityA1
- cosas
- thingsA1
- cuatro
- fourA1
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.