Te Doy Una Cancion [English translation]

How I scribble sheets of paper remembering you

How you make me talk in the silence

How you never go away from my desires

Although nooone ever sees me with you

And how the time passes

That suddenly turns into years

Without you passing by me and stopping

I'll give you a song if I open up a door

And out of the shadows you appear

I'll give you a song at the break of dawn

When I most want your light

I'll give you a song when you seem to be

The mystery of love

And if you don't seem it

It won't matter

I'll give you this song

If I poke my head outside a little, and I freeze in my steps

The city collapses with me there singing

The people that love me and hate me

Are never going to forgive me

How they distract me!

They believe that I say it all

That I gamble my life

Because they don't know you

Nor do they feel you

I'll give you a song and I'll make a speech

About my own right to speak

I'll give you a song with my two hands

The same hands that have killed

I'll give you a song and say "Native land"

And I'll keep on speaking for you

I'll give you a song

Like a gunshot

Like a book

Like a word

Like a guerilla

Like I give my love

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