Canto De Las Estrellas

Reason is not enough for me
Nor love, nor the word,
My hands that now work
In this instrument a sound.
If my vision is not enough
And it will never be enough
To be able to interpret
The thoughts of Víctor Jara,
Who said in his prayer
I don't sing just to sing.

How your sounds are heard
With tones of consequence,
Of truth and patience
Of thinking without more pressures,
I don't sing for illusions
He said in front of God,
Nor do I sing because between two
The path is shorter,
I don't sing by request
Nor for having a good voice.

He sang because of the feeling,
He sang because of friendship,
He sang for reality,
He sang for suffering,
He sang because his talent
In music tears apart,
He sang because the ties
Will loosen from the people,
He was heard saying absent
He sang because of the guitar.

Your life guided
By a different ideal,
For being among the people,
Taken by death.
And I cannot be freed
From the force and oppression,
That tightens the heart,
Your song today clings
Why singing to the earth
Makes sense and reason.

I don't sing just to sing
Nor for having a good voice,
I sing because the guitar
Makes sense and reason.