Te Doy Una Cancion [English translation]

How I use up sheets of paper remembering you

How you make me speak into the silence

How you are never gone from my desires

Even though nobody ever sees me with you

And how the time goes

Soon turning to years

Without you passing by me

And stopping

I'll give you a song if it opens a door

and you come out of the shadows

I'll give you a song at dawn

When I most want your light

I'll give you a song when it appears

the mystery of love

And if it doesn't appear

I don't mind

I'll give you a song

If I look outside a little bit, I stop

The city collapses around me, and I am singing

The people that hate me and those that love me

are not going to forgive me

How it distracts me!

They think that I say everything

That i gamble my life

Because they don't know you

nor can they feel you

I'll give you a song and make a speech

about my right to speak

I'll give you a song with my two hands

With the same ones that kill

I'll give you a song and say "homeland"

And continue to speak for you

I'll give you a song

Like a gunshot

Like a book

A word

A guerilla

Like I give my love

• Artist:Silvio Rodríguez
• Album:Te Doy Una Cancion