Cantores Que Reflexionan Lyrics in English Violeta Parra
Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Cantores Que Reflexionan by Violeta Parra from Spanish to English.
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En la prisión de la ansiedad
In the prison of anxiety
Medita un astro en alta voz
A star meditates out loud
Gime y se agita como león
Moans and shakes like a lion
Como queriéndose escapar.
Like wanting to escape.
De dónde viene su corcel
Where does your steed come from?
Con ese brillo abrumador
With that overwhelming shine
Parece falso el arrebol
The tree seems false
Que se desprende de su ser
What emerges from your being
Viene del reino de Satán
Comes from the kingdom of satan
Toda su sangre respondió
All the blood of him responded
Quemas el árbol del amor
burn the tree of love
Dejas cenizas al pasar
You leave ashes as you pass
Va prisionero del placer
He is a prisoner of pleasure
Y siervo de la vanidad
And servant of vanity
Busca la luz de la verdad
Seek the light of truth
Mas la mentira está a sus pies
But the lie is at your feet
Gloria le tiende terca red
Gloria stretches out a stubborn net
Y le aprisiona el corazón
And it imprisons the heart
En los silencios de su voz
In the silences of your voice
Que se va ahogando sin querer
That is drowning without wanting to
La candileja artificial
the artificial footlight
Le ha encandilado la razón
Reason has dazzled him
Dale tu mano, amigo Sol
Give him your hand, friend Sun
En su tremenda oscuridad
in its tremendous darkness
Qué es lo que canta, digo yo
What is it that sings, I say
No se consigue responder
can not answer
Vana es la abeja sin su miel
Vana is the bee without its honey
Vana la hoz sin segador
The sickle without a reaper is vain
Es el dinero alguna luz
Is money some light
Para los ojos que no ven
For the eyes that do not see
Treinta denarios y una cruz
Thirty denarii and a cross
Responde el eco de Israel
The echo of Israel answers
De dónde viene tu mentir
Where does your lie come from?
Y adónde empieza tu verdad
And where does your truth begin?
Parece broma tu mirar
It seems like a joke your look
Llanto parece tu reír
crying looks like your laugh
Y su conciencia dijo al fin
And her conscience finally said
Cántale al hombre en su dolor
Sing to the man in his pain
En su miseria y su sudor
In the misery of him and his sweat
Y en su motivo de existir
And in its reason for existing
Cuando del fondo de su ser
When from the bottom of your being
Entendimiento así le habló
Understanding thus spoke to him
Un vino nuevo le endulzó
A new wine sweetened him
Las amarguras de su hiel
The bitterness of his gall
Hoy es su canto un azadón
Today is the song of him a hoe
Que le abre surcos al vivir
That opens furrows when living
A la justicia en su raíz
To justice at its root
Y a los raudales de su voz
And to the streams of his voice
En su divina comprensión
In your divine understanding
Luces brotaban del cantor
Lights flowed from the singer
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