Silvio Rodríguez
Son desangrado lyrics with English translation
- Language
- Spanish
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 1982
- Length
- 5:04
Un corazón quiso saltar un pozo
A heart wanted to jump a well
Confiado en la proeza de su sangre
Trusting in the prowess of its blood
Y hoy se le escucha delirar de hambre
And today you can hear it deliring with hunger
En el oscuro fondo de su gozo
In the dark depths of its joy
El corazón se ahogaba de ternura
The heart was drowning in tenderness
De ganas de vivir multiplicado
In the desire to live multiplied
Y hoy es un corazón tan mutilado
And today it's a heart so mutilated
Que ha conseguido morir de
That has managed to die of
Que ha conseguido morir de
That has managed to die of
Que ha conseguido morir de cordura
That has managed to die of sanity
Qué son, desangrado son, corazón
What are they, bled dry they are, heart
Qué son, desangrado son, corazón
What are they, bled dry they are, heart
Qué son, desangrado son, corazón
What are they, bled dry they are, heart
Qué son, desangra-
What are they, bled dr-
Qué son, desangra-
What are they, bled dr-
Qué son, desangrado son, corazón
What are they, bled dry they are, heart
Uh, son, corazón
Uh, they are, heart
Uh, son (corazón)
Uh, they are (heart)
Corazón
Heart
Corazón
Heart
Corazón
Heart
Hablo de un corazón que se defiende
I speak of a heart that defends itself
De su vieja y usada maquinaria
From its old and worn machinery
Hablo de un parto en una funeraria
I speak of a birth in a funeral home
Hablo de un corazón que no comprende
I speak of a heart that doesn't understand
Hablo de un corazón tan estrujado
I speak of a heart so crushed
Tan pequeñín, tan pobre, tan quién sabe
So tiny, so poor, so who knows
Que en su torrente casi todo cabe
That in its torrent, almost everything fits
Sea real o sea ima-
Be it real or be it ima-
Sea real o sea ima-
Be it real or be it ima-
Sea real o sea imaginado
Whether real or imagined
Qué son, desangrado son, corazón
What are they, bleeding they are, heart
Qué son, desangrado son, corazón
What are they, bleeding they are, heart
Qué son, desangrado son, corazón
What are they, bleeding they are, heart
Qué son, desangra-
What are they, bleeds-
Qué son, desangra-
What are they, bleeds-
Qué son, desangrado son, corazón
What are they, bleeding they are, heart
Uh, son, corazón
Uh, they are, heart
Uh, son
Uh, they are
Corazón
Heart
Corazón
Heart
Corazón
Heart
Al corazón le faltaba su oreja
The heart was missing its ear
Y amaba distraído por la calle
And distractedly loved down the street
Estrangulando con pasión un talle
Strangling a waist with passion
E incapaz de notar alguna queja
And unable to notice any complaint
El corazón de torpe primavera
The heart of clumsy springtime
Hizo que le injertaran el oído
Made them graft an ear onto it
Y tanta maldición oyó que ha ido
And it heard so many curses that it went
A que le den de nuevo su
To get its own back again
A que le den de nuevo su
Let them give him back his
A que le den de nuevo su sordera
Let them give him back his deafness
Qué son, desangrado son, corazón
What are they, bled out they are, heart
Qué son, desangrado son, corazón
What are they, bled out they are, heart
Qué son, desangrado son, corazón
What are they, bled out they are, heart
Qué son, desangra-
What are they, bled out-
Qué son, desangra-
What are they, bled out-
Qué son, desangrado son, corazón
What are they, bled out they are, heart
Uh, son, corazón
Uh, they are, heart
Uh, son (corazón)
Uh, they are (heart)
Corazón
Heart
Corazón
Heart
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Key vocabulary
- talle
- waistB2
- tanta
- so muchB2
- ternura
- tendernessB2
- usada
- usedB2
- corazón
- heartB1
- quiso
- wanted
- saltar
- jumpB1
- pozo
- wellB2
- confiado
- confident
- proeza
- feat
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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.