Son Para Despertar a Una Negrita
Pablo Milanés
They're for Waking Up a Black Girl
I'm going to write you some lyrics for the first time
I want to proclaim that your name is Haydee
Because another Haydee that hurts me and that I won't forget
Lives in my memory and in your name too.
This unsolicited inspiration with your siblings, I don't know anymore
If it will evoke a bigger conflict than the effort of wanting
To anticipate by a long time what is happening.
Your small figure came to unify all the loves that will be offered to you.
About your person, what will I say if in your innocence it tends to be
To start as a dream to achieve
And upon waking up, you will find the most beautiful, the terrible, the truth of this world.
You will be like a summary of good and evil
And in the end, I will make you with my way of loving.
May beauty choose you, may kindness define you
Forever, may happiness keep that smile in you.
Like Haydee Santamaria, I know well that you will not be
I want you to be like you, my dear, that will be enough for me.
May beauty choose you, may kindness define you
Forever, may happiness keep that smile in you.
Excessive pride, discreet tolerance,
Are double-edged weapons, you will learn their secret.
May beauty choose you, may kindness define you
Forever, may happiness keep that smile in you.
Play with that doll, don't uncover the pain,
Be happy, receive love, don't despair to grow up.
May beauty choose you, may kindness define you
Forever, may happiness keep that smile in you.
Give me your crazy bird and take my Elpidio Valdes,
And if you are Snow White, I will be your prince.
May beauty choose you, may kindness define you
Forever, may happiness keep that smile in you.
You will be like a summary of good and evil,
And in the end, I will make you with my way of loving,
With my way of loving, with my way of loving.
