Te Doy Una Cancion [English translation]

Because I spend too many paper sheets reminding about you.

Because you make me speak in the silence.

Because I never stop of wanting you, although nobody ever see us together.

And because time doesn't stop, and suddenly became years, without you going lingering through me...

I give you a song when I open a door, and you come out from the shadows.

I give you a song, in the dawn, when I want your light the most. I give you a song when you make the mistery of love to appear, but if you don't I don't care, I give you a song.

If I look outside for a while, I stop, city is collapsing and I'm singing.

People that hate me or love me will not forgive my distraction.

They believe I say everything and risk my life, because they don't know you; and don't feel you.

I give you a song if I make a speech about freedom of speak.

I give you a song with my two hands, the same hands that kill.

I give you a song if I say "Patria", and I'm still talking about you. I give you a song, a shot, a book, a word, a guerrilla, as I give the love.

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