Susana Baca
El fusil del poeta lyrics with English translation
- Language
- Spanish
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 2002
- Length
- 5:09
Mientras jugó la guerra de los niños
While playing the war of children
Con un fusil hecho de cualquier cosa
With a rifle made of anything
Quizá de arroz, quién sabe de una rosa
Perhaps of rice, who knows, of a rose
Envejeció de amor cargando furias
Aged by love, carrying fury
Y se enrolo a morir donde antes quiso
And signed up to die where he once wished
Simplemente sucede como dijo
It simply happens as he said
Ese día el fusil era una rosa
That day the rifle was a rose
Rastrillada en el aire, peligrosa
Swept through the air, dangerous
Ese día era el sol más sol al río
That day the sun was the sun to the river
Más río el río y más la guerra era
More river the river and more the war was
Y más la muerte desde la ribera
And more the death from the riverbank
Contra el leve fusil que era ese día
Against the light rifle that was that day
Solamente una rosa
Only a rose
Ese día era el sol más sol al río
That day the sun was the sunniest by the river
Más río el río y más la guerra era
More river the river and more the war it was
Y más la muerte desde la ribera
And more the death from the riverbank
Y una grana del verse detonado
And a crimson from the verse detonated
Abierta esta la rosa colorada
Open is this rosy bloom
En la margen del río enraizada
On the bank of the river, rooted
Quedo al rocío que llovió de un río aquel
I remain in the dew that rained from a river then
Hundido río en su vena rota
Sunk river in its broken vein
Abierta esta, alerta como entonces
Open this, alert like back then
Al hombro del poeta
On the poet's shoulder
Va ganando la guerra con su rosa
Winning the war with its rose
La boca desde el río
The mouth from the river
Sus pájaros, sus árboles
Its birds, its trees
Y es que jugo la guerra de los hombres
And it's that I played the war of men
Haciéndose un fusil
Making itself a rifle
De cada cosa que no fuera un fusil
From everything that wasn't a rifle
Ese día se armaba de una rosa
That day it armed itself with a rose
El fusil del poeta es una rosa
The poet's rifle is a rose
Hmm, eh-eh-eh-eh
Hmm, eh-eh-eh-eh
Ah, ah-ah-ah-ah
Ah, ah-ah-ah-ah
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Key vocabulary
- solamente
- only; just (used to limit or emphasize the one thing being considered)A2
- mientras
- whileB1
- jugó
- playedA1
- guerra
- warA2
- amor
- loveB1
- como
- as; like; howB1
- cualquier
- anyB1
- dijo
- saidB1
- donde
- whereB1
- era
- wasB1
About this song
Susana Baca is Peruvian vocalist associated with Afro-Peruvian musical traditions. She is known for her interpretation of Afro-Peruvian repertoire, including the widely heard recording of “Maria Lando” featured on David Byrne’s The Soul of Black Peru.