Te doy una cancion

How I waste paper remembering you
how you make me talk in silence
how I can't shake off the desire for you
even though no one ever sees me with you
and how time flies, suddenly it's years
without you passing by, just stuck here

I give you a song
if I open a door
and you come out of the shadows,
I give you a song at dawn
when I want your light the most,
I give you a song
when you show up
the mystery of love
and if you don’t show up
I don’t care
I still give you a song.

If I look a little outside, I stop
the city is crumbling
and I’m singing
the people who hate me and love me
won’t forgive me
for getting distracted,
they think I say it all
that I’m risking my life
because they don’t know you
or feel you.

I give you a song and I make a speech
about my right to speak,
I give you a song
with both my hands
with the same ones that kill,
I give you a song
and I say homeland
and I keep talking to you,
I give you a song
like a gunshot
like a book
a word
a guerrilla...
how I give love.