Si Se Calla El Cantor

If the singer is silenced
life is silenced too,
because life itself
is all a song

If the singer is silenced
hope, light,
and joy
all die of fright...

If the singer is silenced
the humble
sparrows of the streets
are left alone...

The dockworkers
cross themselves
who will fight
for their wages?

And what will become of life
if the one who sings
doesn't raise his voice in the stands

For those who suffer
and for those with no reason
condemned to walk without a blanket

If the singer is silenced
the rose dies,
and what good is
the rose without the song...

The song must be a light
over the fields
always illuminating
those below...

Let the singer not be silent,
because silence,
cowardly, shelters
the evil that oppresses

Singers don't know
how to bow down
they will never be silent
in the face of crime...

Let all the flags be raised,
when the singer stands with his cry
and let a thousand guitars bleed in the night
an immortal song to infinity

If the singer is silenced...
life is silenced!